Dollar-yen: how inflation is used as foreign policy
The dollar-yen exchange rate manoeuvre reveals that money creation has become a variable of foreign policy
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The wreck of BIP-110 and the eternal September
BIP-110 enters mandatory signaling with 2.53% miner support and stalls after two blocks. Supporters are now discussing a proof-of-work change: the creation…
594 bitcoin drained in fifteen minutes: what we know so far
In the early hours of 30 July an automated operation swept 500 single-sig addresses across four consecutive blocks. Evidence points to weak…
Pavel Durov and the price of non-compliant communication
The FSB charges Durov with terrorism: when a platform escapes surveillance, the state turns the refusal to cooperate into a criminal offence
When the BIS discovers its own irrelevance
The central bank of central banks warns that dollar stablecoins bypass capital controls, fearing the erosion of its own relevance as an…
Privacy: at least China is honest
Chinese prosecutors want to use mixer usage as evidence of money laundering: the logic already written into Western KYC systems.
The Trojan horse of institutional adoption
When banks build custody infrastructure on Bitcoin, they replicate the fractional-reserve logic on the only asset with a mathematically fixed supply in…
RGB Protocol on Bitcoin: from a Milan lab in 2015 to mainnet
RGB Protocol on Bitcoin took roughly ten years to move from a research lab in Milan in 2015 to a live asset…
The digital panopticon dressed as child protection
Every law that requires documents to browse the web builds the infrastructure that tomorrow's regimes will use
The exodus from Binance that Brussels had not anticipated
When the MiCA crackdown pushes the majority of users toward self-custody
Thirty-nine trillion reasons
American sovereign debt follows a fiscal trajectory that no central bank can correct from within
Bull Bitcoin takes DAC8 to court: the first legal challenge to Europe's crypto tax surveillance
The companies behind the Bull Bitcoin brand have challenged before the Conseil d'État the decree by which France implemented the directive. If…
