The absolutely wild story of $LIBRA and Argentina's Javier Milei. Even in a world of rugs and scams, this one is brazen.

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A reading and discussion inspired by:

https://www.coindesk.com/opinion/2025/02/10/why-we-need-a-bipartisan-stablecoin-bill

https://www.coindesk.com/opinion/2025/02/13/why-congress-needs-to-act-on-digital-assets

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Congressional hearings. Stablecoin legislation. The wild sentiment dichotomy between institutions and retail. Major outperformance for Coinbase and Robinhood. And more.

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To go on Crypto Twitter, you'd think that we were back in the doldrums of 2023. And yet according to the people closest to the institutions, everything is raging. So what gives? What explains the divergence of attitude? Could it be as simple as some Binance forced selling?

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Three different assets. Three VERY different buyer profiles and sentiment stories. Is it the return of sound money or financial nihilism driving the investor train right now? NLW explores.

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Despite $95,000+ sentiment is absolutely in the garbage. NLW explores the reasons, from memecoin misery to macro.

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A reading and discussion inspired by:

https://www.coindesk.com/opinion/2025/02/05/it-s-time-to-end-the-bureaucrat-s-secret-weapon-debanking

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A changing of the policy guard takes over Washington as crypto digs in for a much friendlier regulatory environment.

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With a set of recent actions, the FDIC has completely reversed its aggressive anti-crypto campaign, nearly two years to the day after Nic Carter first termed it "Operation Chokepoint 2.0." In this episode, a recently voice losing NLW turns to OpenAI's Deep Research and Google's NotebookLM to do a history of the campaign against crypto.

Read the original research paper: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F_zV0uyI5MRa5TNN3fh8X7EQPKDoD_zOT6JUZi1ryQY/edit?usp=sharing

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SEC Commissioner Hester Pierce, long a holdout stalwart for the crypto industry, is now empowered to lead policy via the SEC's new Crypto Task Force. In a recent speech, she laid out the group's specific priorities.

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