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A new working paper on "The Viability of Bitcoin as a Central Bank Reserve Asset" concludes that Bitcoin lacks stability and liquidity, but could still play a role in central bank management.

Link to paper: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

#EconSky #FinSky #Finance #Bitcoin #Academic

Study Finds Around a Quarter of Polymarket Trades Are Fake Surely, there's no potential for market manipulation here.

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I think it’s pretty easy to see the gap in the logical progression between paragraphs 6 and 7 that will doom the case.

What the hell happened to NFTs? The mad gold rush of the digital art world has come to an abrupt end – and people are losing money fast

www.telegraph.co.uk/art/artists/...

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Title card for the article "Tracing Cross-Chain Transactions Between EVM-Based Blockchains: An Analysis of Ethereum-Polygon Bridges" by T. Yan, C. Huang, and C. J. Tessone, in Ledger Vol. 10 (2025)

New Article Alert!

"Tracing Cross-Chain Transactions Between EVM-Based Blockchains: An Analysis of Ethereum-Polygon Bridges" by Tao Yan, Chuanshang Huang, and Claudio J. Tessone is available to read (free, as always) at Ledger!

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hmm I think with the She's the Sheriff reference you have told us that you have a background in the industry..or you watched waayyy too much tv as a kid.

if you find a trader of the right age (old) they can tell you wonderful stories of onion trading in the 1950s. Glad to know that cascoin is bringing it back....all hail cascoin.

I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.

Ms. Halligan, who took over on Monday after her predecessor quit rather than prosecute James B. Comey with what he believed was insufficient evidence, had a little trouble with the first two tasks. At one point, she entered the wrong courtroom. When she found the right one, she stood on the wrong side of the judge, then appeared confused about the paperwork she just had signed.

Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy

Judge temporarily blocks Trump's firing of Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook The ruling means Cook will remain on the board of the central bank until her case is heard at length.

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A picture of the Canadian embassy ad saying “we make great burgers together!” with a picture of a burger and an ad saying “we make great planes together!” with a picture of a F-35 c

Trying to explain why international trade is good to an American: okay so imagine a burger

(yes this is a real ad on the Canadian embassy in DC)

Open letter Click here to add your signature. An Open Letter from Economists in Support of Governor Lisa Cook and Federal Reserve Independence To the President, Members of Congress, and the American public: We wr...

Over 125 economists signed the open letter calling on the President, Congress, and the American public to uphold the principles of Federal Reserve independence and not remove Lisa Cook without due process.

There's still time to sign! And please share.

#EconSky

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Me: “And we are going to put GDP on the blockchain so people can use the blockchain for data, distribution, and then we're going to make that available to the entire government, so all of you can do it.” Do I sound like a fucking idiot? That's a real quote, from today, from Howard Lutnick, the Secretary of Commerce, and guy who formerly ensured Tether was fully backed. Imfao

Loudly, for the people in back

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Peter Thiel Leads Pack of Investors Piling Into Ether Proponents see Ethereum becoming the platform of choice for the financial world.

i have seen the future and it is

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“.. Bessent is wrong about a potential big new source of demand for US government debt — again. .. Any dollars invested into stablecoins come from somewhere else, and those other places are typically already owners of Treasuries.”

@opinion.bloomberg.com
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meanwhile good old fashioned stock scams continue

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or you would be in the president's cabinet.

Molly...you are thinking too small...go Hollywood. Even the Big Bang Theory had a nerd on call to make sure that the equations on the white boards actually were equations. Call us when you've gone Hollywood.

Thank you queen nerd...this will make all my data nerds happy

A nerd fest of data sources

Appropriate music selection!

Gustav Holst - The Planets, Mars Bringer of War.

Kevin de Patoul, chief executive of crypto market maker Keyrock, says investors should be realistic about what this is. “You’re injecting a huge amount of risk into a system that, in the end, has almost nothing backing it except the continued appreciation of the asset.”

Screenshot of I Think You Should Leave episode, where the focus group man states “Oh my God, he admit it!”

“.. DOGE increasingly looks like a giant joke as the initiative winds up saving essentially zero dollars for US taxpayers .”

- Vital Knowledge

@politico.com 🇺🇸
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An economist’s guide to big life decisions Forget your trip to the dentist. A new check-up is required

If you were to have a check-up with an economist, the first question would be what seems to be the matter: income or happiness?

love the commentary ...too bad about the whole OYO place...closing that small wonderful pool at 6pm...great move guys

How about cat laundering and sanctions trafficking?

"Having consumed alcohol to the point of" is a great beginning to any sentence.