from ZeroHedge:
Bitcoin prices have exploded higher overnight, nearing $38,000, with the renewed bullish tone attributed to a combination of factors, including resurgent institutional interest, growing adoption, and a favorable macroeconomic climate.
Bitcoin prices have exploded higher overnight, nearing $38,000, with the renewed bullish tone attributed to a combination of factors, including resurgent institutional interest, growing adoption, and a favorable macroeconomic climate.
by Brayden Lindrea, Coin Telegraph:
“I’ve been working on a new electronic cash system that’s fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party,” Satoshi wrote in an Oct. 31 email in 2008.
Today marks 15 years since the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, shared the Bitcoin white paper to a mailing list of cryptographers on Oct. 31, 2008 — a date also annually celebrated as Halloween.
by Jesse Coghlan, Coin Telegraph:
During a panel at the 2019 MIT Bitcoin Expo, Gensler called out the securities regulator for its “inconsistent” approach to spot Bitcoin ETF approvals.
Gary Gensler once criticized the United States securities regulator for its “inconsistent” approach to spot Bitcoin
The video clip, which has recently made the rounds again on social media, shows the pre-SEC Gensler discussing blockchain regulation at the 2019 MIT Bitcoin Expo in a fireside chat with United States Securities and Exchange Commission Commissioner Hester Peirce.
by Mark E. Jeftovic, Bombthrower:
What we now call “The Cantillon Effect” was known far back as circa-1730, by at least one economist. It hasn’t been taken very seriously in modern times, especially here in the fiat age.
Named after its author, Richard Cantillon, in his “Essay on Economic Theory” (“Essai sur la Nature du Commerce en Général”) — it is his only surviving work and was published posthumously in 1755, more than 20 years after he was murdered by a former cook whom he had dismissed from his household. The disgruntled ex-employee, returned by night, robbed his home, then set it ablaze, with Cantillon — and the rest of his manuscripts, within.
from 21st Century Wire:
Every time a geopolitical flashpoint emerges, or some emotive ‘terrorism’ event plays out, the western Establishment will not let such a crisis go to waste. Specifically, they will use any opportunity or incident to blame Bitcoin, claiming that the cryptocurrency is somehow responsible for financing acts of terrorism.
That said, due to Bitcoin’s decentralized nature, as well as the relative anonymity built into cryptocurrencies, such transactions cannot really be regulated. In reality, if Bitcoin wasn’t used, some other method or foreign currency would be employed to procure what Washington deems to be ‘illicit’ goods and services.
by Andrew Moran, Discern Report:
An anti-central bank digital currency (CBDC) sentiment filled the halls of Congress this week as House Republican lawmakers filed new legislation and held a hearing grappling with the issue of digitizing the U.S. dollar.
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) reintroduced the Central Bank Digital Currency Anti-Surveillance State Act on Sept. 12, a bill that restricts the Federal Reserve (Fed) and member banks from issuing a digital dollar and using it to construct monetary policy.
by Mish Shedlock, Mish Talk:
The leading candidate in the Argentina presidential election promises dollarization.
Libertarian Javier Milei Leads Polls After Primary Shock
Reuters reports Milei Leads Polls in Argentina Election After Primary Shock
Argentina’s pollsters, caught out by the surprise win of radical libertarian Javier Milei in August’s presidential primary, now show him easing to first place in an Oct. 22 general election, likely ahead of ruling party economy chief Sergio Massa.
by Daisy Luther, The Organic Prepper:
It’s official: the Brazilian Central Bank has announced the introduction of its CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency). It’s called DREX, the acronym for Digital Real Electronic X (real is Brazil’s currency), and the finished logo reveals the project is, in fact, quite advanced. Here’s the meat of the Central Bank’s press release:
by Gareth Jenkinson, Coin Telegraph:
The Jacobi Bitcoin ETF is finally going live on the Euronext Amsterdam stock exchange, more than a year after its planned launch.
Europe will welcome a first-ever spot Bitcoin ETF after the long-awaited launch of Jacobi Asset Management’s Jacobi FT Wilshire Bitcoin ETF.
The London-based digital asset management firm announced that its new investment product was going live on the Euronext Amsterdam stock exchange on Aug. 15, more than a year later than its planned launch in 2022.
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by Rhoda Wilson, Expose News:
The pilot project of Brazil’s Central Bank Digital Currency the Real Digital allows the freezing of user wallets and reducing balances, as was always highly suspected by “conspiracy theorists!”
The president of the Central Bank, Roberto Campos Neto, presented Brazil’s digital agenda back in November 2022 where a preview of the Real Digital app was presented. According to Campos “The Real Digital, the central bank digital currency (CBDC) in Brazil, appears to tokenize the banking system” he explained that the “CBDC is nothing more than a token issued by the bank upon deposit” (source).
