An advisor got arrested for giving Federal Reserve trade secrets to China.

-First thought is, “why does a central bank even have trade secrets?” In that case, the central bank probably isn’t as transparent as it should be.

-Second thought is, “maybe it’s info they have on specific banks rather than their own trade secrets.” In that case the Fed collected trade secrets and then got breached, becoming a third party security hole.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/former-federal-reserve-adviser-arrested-passing-trade-secrets-china-justice-2025-01-31/

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Word on the street is the trade secret was "CTRL-P".

Things are getting weird

What I constantly think is: why would you care about such secrets if you can print the money. They literally can print the money. Like… don’t they understand this?

Bitcoin was released under the MIT licence so it doesn't have any trade secrets to give to China.

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I think even something as simple as the specific factors they're using to determine monetary policy by could reasonably be considered trade secrets if they're specific enough, if it provided the means of knowing in advance where fed funds target is going to be. Which is of course actionable MNPI to trade with.

End the Fed…problem solved.

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Trade secrets that's hilarious 😂 here's the "We print USD anytime we went. We just fire up the old printing presses and give ourselves another couple trillion USD" I say end the #Fed and #IRS

If you love #privacy , why shouldn't Federal reserve have secrets ?

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#bitcoin is anonymous ( no KYC) public network

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