The real history of Polymarket, directly connecting the company to Peter Thiel's efforts to resurrect DARPA's Policy Analysis Market where another Thiel-linked company, Augur, had previously failed.
A concise post-mortem on The Chain series, a deep dive on the creation of the Bitcoin-Dollar system which names the names and explains the technology upholding the deflationary and highly-surveillable digital financial system fast approaching.
Despite Republican rhetoric and Trump’s past policy on the Paris agreement, the incoming Trump administration is being heavily influenced by figures tied to carbon markets and efforts to implement dubious climate finance schemes.
While Facebook’s Libra seemed to fail, it set the stage for stablecoin regulation. The finale of The Chain traces how Libra, the 2023 bank failures and the Gillibrand-Lummis bill realized PayPal’s founding goal of a “new world currency.”
While often pitched as decentralized, the key infrastructure upholding consensus on Ethereum has been dollarized by stablecoin issuers. These same entities, in addition to the currency speculators behind Block.One, were willing partners in the set up and take down of Terra-LUNA and FTX.
Bitcoin and Stablecoins to Expand Dollar Dominance: Whitney Webb and Mark Goodwin join Catherine Austin Fitts on the Solari Report to discuss the fast-moving developments in the world of digital money.
Digital Money: Whitney Webb and Mark Goodwin join Catherine Austin Fitts on the Solari Report to discuss the fast-moving developments in the world of digital money.
Trump’s recent speech on bitcoin and crypto embraced policies that will seek to mold bitcoin into an enabler of irresponsible fiscal policy and will employ programmable, surveillable stablecoins to expand and entrench dollar dominance.
