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3@3 Weekly Recap

Monday - Narrative Watch: Binance & Venus
Tuesday - @DoveyWan on Venus + Web3 anti-surveillance message
Wednesday - EU anti-trust vs Libra / SEC vs ICO / China vs. CEOs feat @LeoAW in HK
3@3 recap continued

Thursday - Return of the crime FUD narrative
Friday - Stablecoin wars / Berlin Blockchain Recap / Trade War
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Nathaniel Whittemore
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Long Reads Sunday #61 - How Everything Changes ed.

Underneath what appeared a relatively calm, end-of-summer week was the specter of seismic change of the global money order.

Don’t believe me? Well, cop a ☕️ & let’s dive in. It’s Long Reads time!
2/ The two poles of the week were Binance announcing Venus - a regionalized, government collaborative version of Facebook’s Libra - and Bank Of England Mark Carney’s stunning proposal for a "Synthetic Hegemonic Currency” to replace USD as the global reserve currency.
3/ Binance’s announcement of Venus was almost subdued. Blog posts went live Sunday, and interestingly, the blog post in Chinese was a much fuller statement, more defiant and directed in its invocation of transforming a new financial era.
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Nathaniel Whittemore
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Crypto Daily 3@3 - 8.23 | Stablecoin wars / Berlin Blockchain Recap / Trade Wars & Safe Havens pscp.tv/w/cDAvNDE0Nzc1…
Topic 1: Stablecoin wars

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Short answer is yes.

I think that the convergence of the BTC & macro narratives has to do with the polar oppositeness of BTC's 'unforgeable scarcity' as compared to MMT.

The stock to flow idea discussed by @saifedean and modeled out by @100trillionUSD give it substance.
And the discussion of his work by @DTAPCAP and @RaoulGMI certainly helped shine a light. Shared below for those who haven't seen
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