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One of the best newsletters is Adam Tooze's "Chartbook"
adamtooze.substack.com
You always learn fascinating stuff
Here's something from today's edition:
20 Key Products China is Heavily Dependent on for Imports
Lots of drama and bickering lately
Do NOT lose sight of what is happening
A leaderless decentralized cypherpunk open source software project that secures property rights and free speech for anyone and destroys central banking and financial censorship has just eclipsed the corporate behemoth Amazon in market cap
4 left to go…
This is without a doubt the best timeline ✌️
Can anyone think of something better that the US government could have spent $7 billion of taxpayer money on instead of bombing one of the world’s poorest countries?
😂
Also - what city would nostr be?
Nostr is ALIVE
A “Mandibles then Bitcoin Standard” @ODELL special
Hard to fathom
Crazy
The first time Bitcoin hit dollar parity
Next stop: sat-cent parity!
H/T @Alex Waltz
This is the surface of Venus, captured by a Soviet probe in the 1970s
A piece of one of these missions just crash landed in the Indian Ocean
I didn’t even know the Soviets had landed crafts on Venus, took photos, recorded sounds, etc, until a few years ago
NYC folks - I will be at @PUBKEY this Monday evening chatting with @tpacchia about Bitcoin, Trojan Horse adoption theory, the Oslo Freedom Forum, and whatever else you wanna jam on
Knicks game 4 right after!
Meetup
HRF x PubKey: The Human Rights Paradox of Nation State Bitcoin Adoption, Mon, May 12, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup
**HRF x PubKey: The Human Rights Paradox of Nation State Bitcoin Adoption**
Each month, the **[Human Rights Foundation](https://twitter.com/HRF)**...
Which way, anon?
Legacy US dollars are NOT CBDCs
The Fed does not directly issue digital cash to the population right now
It issues cash (not a CBDC) and otherwise private corporations issue dollars
Tether is not a CBDC for many reasons but primary amount them is that it does not require ID to use
The central purpose of a CBDC is to surveil and track and control and this isn’t possible to do if you don’t know who is using the money
If Tether starts requiring KYC then maybe it can morph into a CBDC but then it loses most of its global value proposition
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