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Newsletter · By Natalie Brunell · English · Official site

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Sep 29, 2026
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  1. Issue · Sep 29, 2026

    Bitcoin Price Holding as Bond Yields Surge to 19-Year High (opens the original)

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    Listen to the latest episode of the News Block below.👇The bond market’s warning, and what Bitcoin did about itThe most important number in the world right now isn’t Bitcoin’s price. It’s the 10-year Treasury yield, which climbed above 5.2 percent, its highest level since 2007. That’s what the U.S. government pays to borrow for a decade, and it sets the price of nearly everything you borrow,

  2. Issue · Sep 25, 2026

    Strategy is Playing the Long Game. (opens the original)

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    Phong Le, CEO of Strategy, returned to the show this week for a wide-ranging conversation about one of the most consequential summers in Strategy's history — the drawdown and recovery of STRC, the company's variable-rate preferred stock that is designed to trade near its $100 par value.STRC had a difficult stretch between late May and June, hitting an intraday low of $71.25 on June 26 before beginning a steady recovery back to roughly $98 today. Phong walked me through what actually happened, wh

  3. Issue · Sep 21, 2026

    Bitcoin Price Hits an 8-Month High After Being Called a "Dead Cat" (opens the original)

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    Listen to the latest episode of the News Block below.👇Two Americas, One Housing MarketThe Fed raised interest rates last week for the first time in three years, and whether or not you’re buying a house, it just made one of the country’s biggest problems worse.The average 30-year mortgage rate rose to nearly 7 percent, the highest since early 2025. And depending on which side of that figure you̵

  4. Issue · Sep 18, 2026

    The Fed's Warning Signs, the AI Trade Everyone Is Watching, and the Bitcoin Company Building Something New (opens the original)

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    Hi everyone,A packed week on Coin Stories. Jordi Visser is back by popular demand to talk AI, macro and Bitcoin. Danielle DiMartino Booth joined me for a rapid-fire show right after the Fed hiked interest rates. And Rapha Zagury on where he's taking Twenty One Capital as its new CEO.Your weekend listening is ready!Jordi Visser — The Macro AI NexusJordi came back on the show and I left the conversation thinking differently about several things, especially my tendency to worry about financial secu

  5. Issue · Sep 14, 2026

    News Block: Dario’s AI Warning, Trump’s $5,000 Promise and Will Fed Hike Rates? (opens the original)

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    Listen to the latest episode of the News Block below.👇AI Leaders Want to Hit the Brakes. Who Gets to Decide?Something unusual happened in AI this weekend: some of the people racing hardest to build more powerful systems started publicly asking whether the race itself is moving too fast.That debate is bigger than AI safety. It raises a harder question: if this technology really is becoming dangerous, who gets to put their foot on the brake?The companies building it? The government? Or both?The pe

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