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My research focuses on a proposal that would prohibit offering any kind of return – like rewards or yield – on stablecoin holdings. Essentially, this would shift the purpose of stablecoins away from being a place to earn interest and towards simply being a way to make payments. It would redefine them as payment systems, rather than savings products.

The one, the only Steve Hanke, professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins University and the funniest man in Fortune magazine (okay, maybe the only one), graced The David Lin Report this week. He delivered a laugh-out-loud breakdown of why the U.S. is in the Iran conflict like a fish out of water-flopping, gasping, and generally making a mess of things. Spoiler alert: the balance sheet looks like a prop from Blazing Saddles.

This curious movement adds yet another data point to the grand debate swirling in the ether: Are the titans of finance amassing their fortunes while the rest of us mere mortals sit and contemplate our existence during this correction?

According to a rather delightful missive from CryptoQuant, Strategy now stands as the sole harbinger of Bitcoin treasury demand, creating what one might whimsically refer to as a “one buyer market.” While the rest of the financial gallants wallow in a stupor of inactivity, Strategy has embarked on a veritable feeding frenzy of BTC accumulation, erecting grand structures to ensure their purchases are as constant as the tides.

After a week that could make a soap opera jealous with its ups and downs, Bitcoin finally settled down a bit. It went from a high-flying near $72,000 to crashing down to a four-week low before pulling itself back up by its bootstraps.

Ah, the Coinbase Premium Index-a delightful little window into the secret lives of institutional Bitcoin behavior. Well, this particular window has just swung shut and locked itself, showing a rather disheartening view. Our resident crypto analyst, Darkfost, has reported that this index, which measures the price difference between Coinbase Advanced (where the suits play) and Binance (where the rest of us mere mortals dabble), has taken a nosedive into negative territory, reminiscent of a catapulted tomato in a food fight.

A certain crypto researcher, bless his overworked heart, is waving his arms like a conductor at a symphony gone awry, alerting us to the looming specter of AI agents managing real funds in this chaotic digital bazaar.