Did I hold up the Constitution to Congress? Yes. Did I reference the Grateful Dead? Also, Yes.

🔁 CARTEL COMPLETO DE WOB! '26 36 ponentes: Cris Carrascosa @CarrascosaCris_ Alberto Mera @alberto_mera Daniel Baeza @dbaeza13 Stark Privacy @BoringPrivacy Javier Maestre @JavierAMaestre Álvaro D. María @Alvaro_DMaria Nick Anthony @EconWithNick Karliatto @karliatto Yonat Vaks @yonatvaks Franco Amati @franamati Lunaticoin @lunaticoin Jordi Llonch Esteve Guillaume Bajczman @GB_Roxom Mikel Peñagarikano @mpenagar Chavo @ChavoGnuGrowers Luis Miguel Ortiz @LuisMiguelValue José Luis Landabaso @landabaso Laura Guzmán @LauraGuzmanV José Antonio Bravo @jabravo Unhosted Marcellus @oomahq Jack Smith @Jacksper13 BitMaker @BitMaker_ Michal Nýdrle @mikenede Théo Mogenet @theomogenet Aldona @MadBitcoin_ CSH2000 @cshdosmil Javier Bastardo @criptobastardo RodolfoBITS @RodolfoBits Román Ramírez @patowc Markush @akaKush0 Nubis @nubis_bruno Eduardo Alonso Stepan Stehlíček Miguel Vidal @mvidallopez Borja Adsuara @adsuara Pako @PakoVM 📅 2-4 oct · Madrid 🎟️ Entradas: wobitcoin.org/#entradas #WOB26 #Bitcoin #Madrid

Her comments are not random. This is part of a well funded and carefully organized campaign to demonize open models and our civil liberties in DC. Multiple Senate staffers have told me that outside groups are requesting meetings to provide “demonstrations” where open source models are used to attack simulated hospital websites and demand bitcoin as ransom. These are cheap scare tactics funded by groups seeking to control open systems. In reality, cyber defenders rely on open models daily to find critical vulnerabilities before attackers get there first. If these groups are successful, we will all be poorer, less free, and more vulnerable to adversaries with increasingly capable systems.

Hester Peirce with another banger “Today society is at a crossroads. Down one path lies the status quo: more data collection, more intermediary surveillance, more “know your customer” requirements that turn our financial rails into a panopticon. Down the other path lies an opportunity to use new technologies to improve our ability to catch criminals while collecting less personal information than ever before, and monitoring more sparingly to protect Americans’ privacy.” sec.gov/newsroom/speeches-st…

If governments are building new ways to watch how people spend, the public should be able to watch them back. The updated CBDC Tracker shows authoritarians leading the push for central bank digital currency, writes Cato's @EconWithNick. ow.ly/amyW50ZR5H8

Tune in now @CatoInstitute for a conversation on the regulatory state in America!

EEUU 🇺🇸 | La Ley de Secreto Bancario asfixia a las pequeñas empresas. @EconWithNick ✍️ elcato.org/la-ley-de-secreto…

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The Trump administration decreased Bank Secrecy Act reporting thresholds last year from $10,000 to $200, crushing valuable business for many small companies. While the threshold has since been moved to $1,000, the damage is already done. @EconWithNick buff.ly/sdQQqC9

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Restoring privacy in America starts with scaling back financial surveillance. Listen to @CatoInstitute's @EconWithNick and Representative @WarrenDavidson break down why change is need and America needs less surveillance, not more.

"We need libertarians" lol Maybe they should have thought of that before doing tariffs, wars, taking equity stakes in dozens of private companies, deporting non-criminal immigrants, jawboning media companies, and gunning down American citizens in the streets as they protested

I love how you can just say “this isn’t financial advice” before giving financial advice and you’re totally in the clear

Well... someone had a busy night. Shout out to whoever flooded the @HRF CBDC Tracker with password resets.

I’m excited to be speaking about the human rights threat of CBDCs at @rightscon this year. RightsCon is the world’s leading annual summit on human rights in the digital age. I will be joined by Nick Anthony, @EconWithNick of the Cato Institute, and Roger Huang @Rogerh1991, the author of Would Mao Hold Bitcoin for an insightful conversation curated by @femilonge of @HRF. #bitcoin #cbdcs #humanrights

Although I'm heavily involved in the "open source" CBDCTracker.org project, which is a kinda competitor, I have a lot of respect for Nick's HRF central bank digital currency (CBDC) Tracker. We may have our methodological differences, but they make sense in the context of what we're tracking. A focus on individual countries that are part of currency zones makes perfect sense from the human rights focus of Nick's Tracker, but CBDCTracker.org is more focused on the monetary policy and payment system infrastructure implications, so "ignoring" those individual countries (digital currencies issued by governments of countries that don't have their own currencies) makes sense for us. Also, CBDCTracker.org is run by a bunch of payment system and technology nerds, so we do find value in a granular approach to defining CBDC development phases (e.g., research, proof of concept, pilot and launched). However, for Nick's Tracker there are only two distinctions that matter - does it touch the public in any way (launched) or not (experiment). In any case, I learn a lot from Nick's CBDC Tracker, and I'm not ashamed to say that I've started copying some his ideas. One of those is using Wayback Machine (Internet Archive) links instead of the original URLs, because many of original URLs get broken, either to sweep history under the carpet, or because they central banks are just plain lazy or boneheaded. Anyways, keep up the great work @EconWithNick!

New terms, new tools, and new features! However, it's still the same @HRF CBDC Tracker that you've come to rely on. cbdctracker.hrf.org/

"We don't need the competition, especially when we are doing such a terrible job of running the economy." Rep. Sherman is saying the quiet part out loud. The government doing a "terrible" job intervening in the economy is _exactly_ why we need currency competition.

SCOOP: Fed officials knew-or should have known-up to a year in advance that Silicon Valley Bank was vulnerable to a massive run, but were paralyzed by a "miasma of committees," according to people familiar with a new draft report commissioned by Fed governor Michelle Bowman. Rather than targeting individual leaders, the review points to a long-standing culture of inaction.