1/ Operation Choke Point 2.0 has entered the mainstream discussion and as the former CTO of Silvergate, I want to provide my personal view First, the Silvergate SEN network was a core piece of infrastructure in the cryptocurrency economy As someone who was there when it launched, I can't express how watching its influence disappear overnight impacted my family and myself My father, Alan Lane was the CEO of Silvergate. It was sometime in early 2023 that I realized Silvergate, the business I poured my life into for 13 years was going to die