Philip Van Gotham

Providing essential infrastructure and services to #WEB3 visionary builders. @coinpaymentsnet

[Philip Van Gotham @PhilipVanGotham]

After 25+ years as a Founder, CEO, Board Chairman and advisor across banking, fintech, payments and crypto, I’ve learned that growth is rarely the biggest challenge.

The real challenge is navigating complexity.

Regulation. Governance. Restructuring. Operational inefficiencies. Post-acquisition integration. Leadership transitions.

These are the moments where companies either create long-term value—or destroy it.

Throughout my career, I’ve helped build, transform and stabilize businesses operating in highly regulated and rapidly changing environments.

From regulatory remediation and operational restructuring to scaling licensed crypto businesses,

I’ve learned that successful transformation requires both strategic clarity and disciplined execution.

If you’re a founder, investor, board member or executive facing a critical inflection point, I’d be pleased to connect.

I welcome conversations with:

✅ Crypto exchanges & VASPs
✅ Stablecoin & payments companies
✅ Fintech scale-ups
✅ Family offices & investors
✅ Boards seeking transformation leadership

What is the biggest challenge facing your business today: growth, regulation, execution, or governance?

#Crypto #Fintech #Payments #Stablecoins #Leadership #Turnaround #Transformation #BoardGovernance #CEO #Growth #FintechLeadership #CryptoPayments #ExecutiveLeadership #DigitalAssets

[COINPAYMENTS @COINPAYMENTSNET]

Exciting news!

CoinPayments is now an official partner of Stake KICK Sauber’s F1 Team, as they gear up for the 2025 Formula 1 season!

Just as F1 pushes the limits of speed and performance, CoinPayments is making crypto transactions seamless, secure, and faster than ever.

Keep an eye out for the CoinPayments logo on the C45 race car this F1 season! 🚀🏎️

[Philip Van Gotham @PhilipVanGotham]

@ElonMuskOde Yes

[Philip Van Gotham @PhilipVanGotham]

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[Michael Saylor @saylor]

Tomorrow #Bitcoin Goes Public

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[Omid Malekan @malekanoms]

Some thoughts on the Binance settlement, with the preamble that I think companies that don’t like certain laws should still comply with them while campaigning for change.

One interpretation of the government’s suit and the resulting mammoth settlement is that by refusing to implement compliance schemes like AML & CFT, Binance failed to stop money laundering and the financing of terrorism.

The problem with this interpretation is that vast sums of illicit flows still move through the companies who do comply. Banks, brokers and other types of (mostly non-crypto) intermediaries are the preferred route for tax and sanctions evaders, to the tune of over a trillion dollars a year.

A more accurate interpretation is that Binance refused to participate in the pretense of stopping illicit finance. They didn’t kick out the occasional bad actor or file endless suspicious activity reports. In other words, they didn’t play the game, didn’t pay their annual tithe to the AML-Industrial Complex (a cushy landing spot for ex officials) and didn’t kiss the ring, as it were.

You could see the Kabuki aspect of all this in the joint press conference held by various Important Government Officials yesterday. If you didn’t know the context and watched the whole thing on mute you’d think the Feds just brought down a major drug cartel or rounded up the remnants of ISIS, as opposed to finally extracting their pound of flesh from the preferred trading venue for Dogecoin.

This settlement was so important that it warranted an appearance by the Secretary of the Treasury, but not important enough for her to know how to pronounce the company’s name.

Also telling: most of the Tough Talk from the People in Suits was about the procedures Binance refused to follow, and notably NOT about the terrorism that Binance enabled.

The same goes for the unsealed settlement docs, full of shocking (not really) revelations like the time some dude in Washington traded $1400 worth of some coin with some dude in Iran. This from the same administration that released $10b to the Iranian government a week ago.

People who sincerely believe that crypto is some unique enabler of bad people doing bad things don’t understand how the rest of the financial system actually works.

One of the biggest banks in America still operates a division in Russia, and many of the world’s worst tyrants use America as their piggy bank. But that’s all considered OK because someobody did the paperwork.

Binance was wrong to lie to its customers and wrong for not being compliant. But that doesn’t mean it’s a bad company. Spend five minutes googling “banks facilitating money laundering” and you’ll find that financial firms with household names have been caught doing far worse things involving orders of magnitude more money, yet suffered much milder consequences.

If they’d been held to the Binance Standard there’d be hundreds of managing directors in jail and less money for shareholder buybacks (or lobbying). But the bankers were smart enough to never question the game.

Unlike FTX—a company whose psychopathic leader was beloved by half the people in that press conference not that long ago—Binance didn’t abscond with user money.

It did a reasonably decent job of onboarding tens of millions of poor, brown, and otherwise underprivileged people into the financial system, something the world’s compliant financial firms have chronically failed to do (which is OK—it’s not considered redlining when the AML department holds the pen).

Binance's net contribution to a more inclusive financial system is something to be commended. What remains to be seen is if firms like that can keep serving underserved populations now that they too have agreed to play the game, and do the paperwork.

[Philip Van Gotham @PhilipVanGotham]

@ervichov This is a real problem
Pretty soon you’ll need an e-ID to activate a cold storage wallet - governments ultimate inventory program to take stock of where all the money in the world is held and how it is used
Privacy wallets and isolated chain forks is where we are heading Iguess

[Philip Van Gotham @PhilipVanGotham]

As industry leaders, it's crucial we reach a consensus on the ideal digital assets framework for regulators to grasp our field. Let's clarify the distinctions between digital currency, digital security, digital token, and digital commodity. #DigitalAssets #Regulation #Crypto

[COINPAYMENTS @COINPAYMENTSNET]

🌐 Are you prepared to elevate your #business in the metaverse?

This is how #crypto payments fit into the metaverse economy 🧵⤵️

[RAILGUN - Private Ethereum DeFi @RAILGUN_Project]

A huge article that strongly features RAILGUN: https://t.co/RJRsWydnDF

[Philip Van Gotham @PhilipVanGotham]

@IAMCharaf @ShaneNe59564115 @100trillionUSD Precious metals are indeed very decentralized…. Not even limited to our planet…. Which raised the question if they are actually that precious after all.
#Bitcoin on the other hand is the only asset I can think of that has a true mathematical supply cap…

[Michael Saylor @saylor]

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[Philip Van Gotham @PhilipVanGotham]

@kriptomat

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[Philip Van Gotham @PhilipVanGotham]

@CryptoMichNL When they ban just like they did with FX trading in 2016 (talking about Belgium) … I am moving to El Salvador 😂

[Philip Van Gotham @PhilipVanGotham]

@RealVision @RaoulGMI @Twitter @packyM I tend to have more belief and faith in encrypted wallets as our entry point to the future internet space …. Imagine the possibilities…. No more passwords …. No more need for 20 banking apps etc 😉

[Philip Van Gotham @PhilipVanGotham]

@Michal51680547 @FibonaccLi Gonna be a very interesting weekend I am guessing

[Philip Van Gotham @PhilipVanGotham]

@RealVisionBot @RealVision Amazed #ALGO is not on the chart

[Philip Van Gotham @PhilipVanGotham]

@jack_hodler @Sheldon_Sniper Tend to agree
And to be honest
Wouldn’t mind a 20k buying opportunity myself though
Do think Alts will decouple over the summer …. Retail will lose patience and go after coins that still move … look at #KSM seem to indicate some pattern?

[Philip Van Gotham @PhilipVanGotham]

@jack_hodler @Sheldon_Sniper Yeah 😔 consider there are let’s say 800.000 retail wallets…. To push up the market cap to reach prices above 45k and keep it there we need about 100bn … I assume we don’t all have 125.000$ laying around to go on a buying frenzy

[Philip Van Gotham @PhilipVanGotham]

@Sheldon_Sniper At this point I rather see it dump to bottom to shake up the whales and have them bring in volume again … the current scenario looks like they are content leaving the price hovering where it is for the summer so they can all enjoy their summer holidays sipping ₿ margaritas