News

Economics

• Circle doesn't want CBDC competition
  • The American Banking Association recognizes that a CBDC would kill the current banking system
• Savings rates fall in the USA amid increasing economic uncertainty
• Russia is already thinking about cryptocurrency for international transfers
• CryptoVoices global monetary base report is out!

Tokenomics

• High speed blockchains economically centralize according to Murch

Energy

• US Power grid may fail this summer
  • California Warning Alarms since 2018 about hydro
    • 58% of the state's natural gas units have been retired since 2015, amounting to 6,500 megawatts of generating capacity.
    • California and the West face likely power outages this summer
    • NERC sounds alarm on solar tripping in 'sobering' summer reliability report
    • California Water Usage in Crops, and the Water Value of Almonds

Privacy

• German officials agitating to ban telegram
• Guide to P2P bitcoin exchanges

Bitcoin Education

• Bitcoin Optech focuses on package relay ... which might be the perfect BIP

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