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Markets & Economy Article · 7 min read

The Exchanges CME Decided to Trust

"Nine Hundred and Twenty Million, Paid in Cash" left one honest thread hanging: CME's Bitcoin futures settle against a reference rate built from real spot exchanges, but can those specific exchanges be gamed? I went and found out which six exchanges CME actually uses, what vets them, and what's stil

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Bitcoin Article · 5 min read

Four Thousand Tonnes and No API

Central banks bought more than 4,000 tonnes of gold between 2022 and early 2026 — the largest sustained institutional accumulation in modern financial history — because it's a reserve asset nobody else's government controls. Bitcoin's pitch to the same reserve managers isn't replacing gold, it's bei

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Bitcoin Article · 5 min read

Nine Hundred and Twenty Million, Paid in Cash

A reasonable question keeps coming up: if CME can move Bitcoin's price with paper contracts, can it eventually undermine the 21 million cap the same way gold's paper market has allegedly floated free of physical reality for decades? The honest answer needs two separate facts held apart — what CME's

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Treasury companies Article · 7 min read

Two Point Eight Times the Halving

The four-year halving used to be the whole story of Bitcoin's supply side. It isn't anymore. Treasury companies are now absorbing BTC at roughly 2.8 times the pace new coins are mined, funded increasingly by a specific instrument — perpetual preferred stock paying 11-13% — that's replicating across

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Bitcoin Article · 15 min read

Eighteen Months and Twenty-One Million

A Microsoft executive says most white-collar work gets automated in the next 12 to 18 months. A New York Times investigation says Silicon Valley is already bracing for the underclass that leaves behind. And I keep getting told, in real time, that Bitcoin is the one thing standing between any person,

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Science Article · 5 min read

A Subduction Zone Caught in the Act of Dying

A Science Advances study led by Brandon Shuck of Louisiana State University images a tear opening in the Cascadia subduction zone's Nootka Fault Zone off northern Vancouver Island, where the subducting slab has already dropped about 5 kilometres — evidence, the authors argue, that subduction zones c

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