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Submitted by Thomas Kolbe,

The European Central Bank (ECB) is pushing ahead with the “Digital Euro” project. On a new interaction platform, it is seeking dialogue with banks, startups, fintechs, and retailers. What is being sold as an open discourse is, in truth, calculated camouflage.

While the economic policy debate has shifted to the trade conflict with the US, things have gone quiet around the digital euro (CBDC). Yet, the ECB recently launched an online interaction (more…)

Year-to-date, gold prices have dramatically outperformed those on bitcoin…

However, despite this dramatic divergence, the performance chasm has failed to deter investors putting new money to work as inflows into IBIT (BlackRock's spot bitcoin ETF) have surpassed inflows into GLD (SPDR Gold Trust ETF).

Eyeballing the daily net inflows, one can see a pattern where flows seem to swing from one 'alternative currency' asset to another…

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Authored by Dennis Koch via BitcoinMagazine.com,

Bootoshi is one of the more curious minds pushing the boundaries of art, AI, and bitcoin. Part builder, artist, and tinkerer, he’ll be bringing his latest work to both the Bitcoin Conference Las Vegas and Inscribing Vegas during Bitcoin Week in late May. In 2024, he launched SatoshiAI through the Cyphergenesis Runes project – an experiment probing autonomy, sentience, and the evolving role of AI in a decentralized world. When he’s (more…)