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Nixon
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Counterinsurgency and Propaganda
The Road to Securitization in Latin America
Crisis Architects, Digital Discipline and the Federal Government’s Wall Street Makeover
WASHINGTON, DC – On August 3, Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and John Boozman (R-AR) submitted the Digital Commodities Consumer Protection Act to the upper house of Congress calling for a mandatory framework to govern digital assets under the jurisdiction of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), an independent agency of the US government tasked with regulating financial derivatives markets and commodities trading.
Radical Conformity: How Silicon Valley and Bank of America Beta-Tested the Internet on the Counterculture
BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA – On January 3, 2009, the pseudonymous author of the Bitcoin whitepaper, Satoshi Nakamoto, 'mined' the cryptocurrency's first fifty tokens. The computational milestone was dubbed the "genesis block" and followed by the first Bitcoin transaction about a week later, when ten of the digital coins were sent to American software developer Harold "Hal" Finney, thus proving the network's functionality and establishing the main pillar of foundational Bitcoin lore
The Devil’s Currency
WASHINGTON D.C. - Richard Nixon's hand-picked Fed chairman, Arthur F. Burns, was convinced that formalizing the end of the Dollar's gold convertibility would result in the collapse of Western civilization