Institutions Are Falling Back in Love with BTC

Bankless Writer: Jack Inabinet | disclosures Over a dozen asset managers have sought the SEC’s regulatory blessing to launch some form of spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) over the years, but thus far, applicants have been met with little more than silence or rejection. Just last week, however, BlackRock, the world’s largest asset management firm…

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The Coming Crisis of Cities: Reinvention or Bankruptcy

by Charles Hugh Smithof two minds.com The human population has become increasingly urbanized for compelling reasons that have been in play since cities were founded thousands of years ago. In a nutshell, cities offer greater economic / social opportunities and more novelty, variety and excitement. Cities became possible when agricultural surpluses enabled labor to become specialized.  This…

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Bank of England-Backed Project: CBDCs Could Enable ‘Programmability’ for Money

The ‘Project Rosalind’ software trial found that central bank digital currencies could enable smart contract-like features for transactions. By Alys Key Jun 19, 2023 While central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are becoming a hot-button political topic in the U.S., central bankers on the other side of the Atlantic have been looking into what uses the technology actually…

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JPMorgan Had a Secret Project that Is Now Spreading Its Scandalous Internal Emails with Sex Trafficker Jeffrey Epstein to News Outlets Worldwide

By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: June 22, 2023 ~ Jeffrey Epstein (left); Jamie Dimon (right). According to unsealed documents released this week by the U.S. Virgin Islands in its federal lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase over claims it facilitated Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking of underage girls for more than a decade, the largest bank in the…

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