finance
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Bitcoin Verse of the Day — October 14, 2026 “We want Bitcoin to be a system where anyone in the world can send money to anybody. That is the whole point.” Gloria Zhao Gloria Zhao said this during her Transaction Relay Policy for L2 Developers talk at Adopting Bitcoin 2021. The line appears near the…
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BlackRock CEO Larry Fink warned Wednesday that a U.S. moratorium on new data-center construction could push the economy into recession because so much current capital spending is tied to AI infrastructure. Fink told CNBC that “so much of our economy” now depends on the buildout of this capital expenditure. He argued that data centers are…
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Berkshire Hathaway agrees to buy $330 million of new Bending Spoons shares, taking its ownership to 4% as the software conglomerate’s stock surges.
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Bitcoin Verse of the Day — October 14, 2026 “Bitcoin is, very simply, separation of money and state.” Alex Gladstein Alex Gladstein gave this line during a 2023 episode of The Great Simplification. The official transcript places it at about 1:25:17, during a discussion about digital cash, privacy and peer-to-peer payments. The original video is…
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Bitcoin Verse of the Day — October 14, 2026 “Cryptocurrencies are the first step to a world with a global programmable money.” Neha Narula Neha Narula delivered this line in her 2016 TED talk, The Future of Money. In the original recording, the sentence begins at about 11:58. Seconds later, she explains the idea in…
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Learn how China moved from heavy coinage and merchant deposit receipts to the world’s first widely circulating paper money, and why trust, state power, printing, reserves, and inflation became inseparable monetary questions.
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Bitcoin Verse of the Day — October 14, 2026 “The one thing that’s missing, but that will soon be developed, is a reliable e-cash. A method whereby on the Internet you can transfer funds from A to B without A knowing B or B knowing A.” Milton Friedman, 1999 Milton Friedman said this in a…
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Bitcoin Verse of the Day — October 14, 2026 “Bitcoin is a shining city in cyberspace, and you can go there once you understand it.” Michael Saylor This verse works because it turns a technical network into a simple image: a place people can choose to enter once they understand what the system offers. Saylor…
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Privy is bringing programmable wallets to the XRP Ledger so developers can build embedded payments and AI-agent transactions using XRP, RLUSD and x402.
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Bitcoin Verse of the Day — October 14, 2026 “With regards to the general idea of freedom. The moment we see any sort of counting down on human rights or individual rights either as a country or nation states, what we tend to see is people moving towards adopting bitcoin. And that’s not a coincidence……
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DRW and Marex completed a total return swap on Derivnex using a Kaiko-tokenized S&P iBoxx investment-grade bond index on Canton.
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CoinShares has launched managed stablecoin-yield strategies inside Safe’s self-custody infrastructure using Railnet, without taking custody of client assets.
