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A comprehensive history of the events leading up to the historic Executive Order 6102 under FDR that led to widespread gold confiscation in the United States.

The current state of Central Bank Digital Currency Projects globally summarized by Efrat Enigson, independent journalist and host of the “You’re The Voice” podcast.

Massive Bitcoin seizures from Bitfinex hackers add to US government stockpile. Snowden predicts major government entry into Bitcoin market.

In the aftermath of the recent Bitcoin ETF approvals, BlackRock’s Larry Fink revealed that soon everything will be “ETF’d” and tokenized, threatening to fractionalize not just existing assets and commodities, but the natural world, reducing most living things into Wall Street financial products to be traded on a single, universal ledger.

Bitcoin’s “governance” process is defined literally and succinctly by a single word: anarchy. It is literally impossible for a voluntary and distributed system to be “governed” in any other way.

CommerceBlock has taken their initial Mercury statechain implementation, a second layer akin to Lightning, and massively improved the privacy for users. The operator now is incapable of learning

Take a journey to the land of saffron and rose water to understand how legacy of Western imperialism, the CIA and the oil trade have impacted Iran’s political evolution. From “The Primary Issue”.

21 Futures: Tales from the Timechain is the first collection of Bitcoin themed fictional short stories. Eric Bies gives a review of the book.

A reality check on the limitations of Lightning Network, and what that means in terms of its long term viability. No, it’s not doomed, but it probably won’t be used the way you expected it to be.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. sits down with Bitcoin Magazine to discuss his candidacy, Bitcoin and the importance of personal freedom. From “The Primary Issue”.