Highly recommend this book for anyone interested in the intersection of geopolitics and finance/economics, both historical and current. I'm particularly surprised and interested in the details that the book examines about Norway's, seemingly outsized, scope of it's Sovereign Wealth Fund. It leads me to questioning the influence of Norway on Bitcoin strategies both in Norway and, given that clout in Europe and worldwide, the rest of the world. Whether Norway indeed yields that clout through it's SWF or if it's position just reflects the wider views of other jurisdictions, particularly the EU and MiCA, I don't know, but it might be interesting for those involved with Bitcoin policy to put Norway somewhat higher on the radar given the size of the Norwegian state's investments.

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One of the real reasons ccp needed to wrestle complete control over HK was essentially to ensure it remained a money laundering hub and jurisdiction that could be used, when convenient, to be able to include or exclude from ccp financial data etc. Just one example is the supposed foreign transactions/flows of RMB that get touted so much in narratives about their currency. How much of that is actually just HK$/RMB shenanigans including the stock connect schemes between the two jurisdictions?

That Kristalina Georgovia was implicated but allowed to remain without further scrutiny even though she was "involved" with assisting ccp with the necessary authorisations to have that HK/ccp setup.

For the hand plane users in nostr

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