Financial Repression is Literally Here

Pre-Show

• Three Arrows Capital co-founder Zhu arrested in Singapore airport, sentenced four months in prison | TechCrunch

News

• Ripple bails out Fortress Trust after hackers steal customer assets

  • Mike Belshe on X: I really don’t want to talk about it at all, because it actually has nothing to do with BitGo. But because Fortress was not forthcoming about what actually did happen, we are now indirectly affected -…" / X
  • Fortress CEO Responds to Ripple Backing Out of Acquisition - Decrypt

• Interesting analysis of bitcoin mining pool F2Pool's miner extracatble value (MEV) attacks on the STACKS protocol

Economics

• The Lagged Impact Of Higher Rates | BitMEX Blog, Bitmex explains why monetary policy likely will take time to fail spectacularly

  • part of a series on the next global financial crisis

• Arthur had a blog post that observes that at high levels of government deficits economic logic breaks down, the US gov't deficit is 8% of GDP, and nominal gdp growth is at 9%

Privacy

• Interesting thoughts on bitcoin contributions, privacy, and the challenges of designing the bitcoin protocol with Miner Extractable Value problems in mind

Bitcoin Education

• Bitcoin optech focus on covenants and lightning

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