Bitcoin Core merges bold and contentious updates; I get into their reasons why. Plus, Inflation eases for now, but the trend is clear. Why we can expect higher for longer.

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• CPI inflation report May 2025: U.S. inflation rises 0.1%
• Here's the inflation breakdown for May 2025 — in one chart
• Trump’s tariffs have so far caused little inflation
• Vance joins Trump in bashing Powell, says Fed committing 'monetary malpractice' by not cutting rates
• ECB cuts interest rates to 2% in effort to bolster flagging eurozone growth | European Central Bank 
• Euro Rebounds to $1.14 after ECB Rates Cut
• 277. Lyn Alden Nothing Stops This Train - YouTube
• BlackRock Bitcoin Fund Flies Past $70,000,000,000 Faster Than Any Other ETF in History
• Bitcoin is introduced into Africa's largest slum, with risks and rewards - YouTube
• opportunity-cost: See every price in Bitcoin. Understand the Bitcoin opportunity cost of your purchases.
• Inflated - YouTube

PR #32406 LINKS

• RFC 7282 - On Consensus and Humming in the IETF
• Relax OP_RETURN standardness restrictions
• Addressing community concerns and objections regarding my recent proposal to relax Bitcoin Core's standardness limits on OP_RETURN outputs - Philosophy - Delving Bitcoin
• Addressing communi