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Markets & Economy Article · 4 min read
On Friday CME Group withdrew its filing for a 24/7 oil futures contract, and a widely shared post made it sound like an exchange that couldn't find weekend staff. The record is stranger and more useful than that — a regulator's stay in July, a stated worry about unintended consequences, and a list o
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The World Article · 6 min read
In September the Houthis took the Yemeni side of the Bab al-Mandab strait, including Perim (Mayyun) Island, just as Iran's closure of Hormuz had pushed Saudi oil onto the Red Sea. Here is why that narrow gap matters, how much oil moves through it, and why Washington has so far declined to strike.
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Mining Article · 12 min read
Jason Lowery, the MIT researcher behind Softwar, posted that Bitcoin is "tokenized compute" and that AI will need BTC to afford its own actions. Some links in that chain hold and some strain. Here is what his thesis actually says, what the numbers on AI payments look like today, and where I think th
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The World Article · 42 min read
A standing page on the oil war, rewritten as it moves. As of October 10: Gulf crude exports recovered to around pre-war levels in September, by pipeline and by shuttle tanker rather than through an open strait, but tanker attacks hit a wartime high in early October; Brent settled at $104.72, 44% abo
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Bitcoin Article · 8 min read
FinCEN withdrew its 2023 proposal to label crypto mixing a "primary money laundering concern." I read the withdrawal notice and the original proposal. Neither says the word Lightning, but the proposal's definition of mixing was written so broadly that a literal reading brushes against how Lightning
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The World Article · 2 min read
8 stories across The world, Business / macro & markets, Science, Space, Bitcoin & crypto, Health & medicine, Arts & culture, tracked on October 6, 2026.
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Markets & Economy Article · 9 min read
The London Gold Fix did not disappear. Since 2015 it has been an electronic auction at the same two times of day, run by an exchange company instead of five banks. Here is how the auction works, what the old fix was actually caught doing, and whether the new one can be spoofed the way JPMorgan spoof
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History Article · 5 min read
The whitepaper is nine pages and cites eight sources. Behind those eight sits a thirty-four-year pile of other people's work, from TCP/IP in 1974 to Hal Finney in 2004. Here is the whole stack in two minutes of video.
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Markets & Economy Article · 8 min read
Wall Street ended last week higher and then futures slipped Monday on rising bond yields and eurozone jitters. Those turn out to be one story told twice — the US Treasury Secretary dared bond traders to bet against him and they did, while France's debt and Spain's snap election pushed the euro to a
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The World Article · 38 min read
A standing page on the death of an Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute lab worker, rewritten as the story moves. As of October 10 the story has gone quiet: Irkutsk lifted its quarantine on October 8 after nearly 5,000 negative lab tests, no second case has been confirmed and Russia calls the second-case r
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