I'm feeling disagreeable so here goes:

I think the narrative that "Silicon Valley broke its own bank and it's another example of how tech is broken" is complete hokum, and exonerates the actual villains here.

Bank runs happen all the time.

They are what happen when you have insufficient bank regulation.

The bipartisan bill of 2018 that let SVB dodge good banking rules is the actual problem here.

This is not a tech issue, it's a banking one.

@mimsical But didn’t this particular bank lobby very strongly for these changes in 2018?
@SCampbell Yes, along with plenty of other banks, but ultimately it was *Congress* passed that bill, not the bank. And even if you still want to blame the bank for the bill, that’s still… the bank, not the people and companies using the bank. And the solution remains fixing the regulation.
@tolmasky I am just trying to understand it. I’m Canadian so bank runs are just not talked about here.