USA 🇺🇸: An FBI memo alleged that violent extremists "searched for and frequented traditional Catholic houses of worship" and suggested "source development" within churches offering the Mass in Latin and "radical-traditionalist" Catholic online communities.
NEW: 💵 $23M worth in #Bitcoin and other 'crypto' was stolen in a Alphapo hot wallet hack. 😱
Keep your 🔑 keys off the internet!
NEW: Both ⛏ miners outflows and inflows registered a significant decline in the last days due to lower revenues given by fewer #Bitcoin transactions
Inaugurating "The Bitcoin Standard" rubric: a series of quotes from saifedeans's 📙 book!
Quote no. 1️⃣:
“#Bitcoin can be best understood as distributed software that allows for transfer of value using a currency protected from unexpected inflation without relying on trusted third parties”
NEW: Study found out that 23% of 🇺🇸 American digital asset investors thinks #Bitcoin will come back to its ATH price of 70K within the next year 👀
It's never too late to learn about #Bitcoin! 🚀 Here's a simple way to explain Bitcoin to your grandparents.
NEW: In a new filing for the lawsuit against Do Kwon and Terraform Labs, the 🇺🇸 SEC stated that the ruling of the case regarding XRP was substantially wrong and shouldn't be taken into account 👀
NEW: 🇫🇷 Banque de France released a report on CBDC experiments that says DLT enables central banks to maintain control over CBDC wholesale and the processing of trade/ post-trade activities, contributing to overall financial stability 🤔
Spain 🇪🇸: ELECTIONS
The number of voters who chose to vote by mail is the highest in history.
An estimated 2.6 million people are expected to vote by mail.
Until 14:00 (Madrid) the turnout was 40.4%, therefore, higher than the 37.86% for the same time in the last elections of Nov/19
Japan 🇯🇵: Japan “would probably come to the aid of Taiwan if a Chinese invasion provoked the same international support for Ukraine” declared the Minister of State for Defense, Ino Toshiro.
"I'm not sure at this point whether it will be defense equipment support or whether it will be logistical support," he said, adding that he would need the consensus of the Japanese people.
🚨 Spain 🇪🇸: ELECTIONS
A tunnel fire has suspended traffic from Valencia to Madrid in both directions since 5 am.
The general secretary of the PP in Madrid, Alfonso Serrano, criticized “that the trains
full of Madrid cannot leave Valencia due to a problem in a tunnel” on election day and demanded “urgent and immediate” action. “What a coincidence, huh?”
It is worth mentioning that Madrid and Valencia are two important strongholds for the PP in these elections.
This South Park clip from over 20 years ago aged beautifully.
https://nostr.build/av/ba74d09f213eb0740826c56ae7d9bbb3caff0254ce3f4eda4d352c7382816c36.mp4
A BTC whale that has been dormant for 11 years transferred all 1,037.42 $BTC($37.8M) to a new address"bc1qtl" an hour ago.
The whale received 1,037.42 $BTC($5,107 at that time) on Apr 11, 2012, when the price was $4.92.
CEO of Worldcoin says world ID is coming "whether you like it or not" ⛳️
NEW: 🇮🇱 Millions protest against the Israeli government power grab 👀
#Bitcoin inflation rate is now at 1.74%.
This value will be 0,87% after the next halving.
This chart shows clearly that the #Bitcoin stock-to-flow ratio is the inverse function of the inflation rate. Diminishing inflation drives scarcity. Scarcity drives value
NEW: Experts say FEDNow payment system could be the first step to build the infrastructure of a central bank digital currency in the 🇺🇸 U.S. 👀
“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”
— George Orwell