🇷🇺💰🥇🥈 The Russian Finance Ministry proposes to allocate 51.5 bilion rubles (around $538 million) to buy precious metals like platinum, palladium, gold and gemstones, according to the draft federal budget for 2025 and the planning period of 2026-2027.

https://x.com/wmiddelkoop/status/1840803496037155008

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💰❌📄 Academic paper suggests governments should attack public blockchains

An academic paper noscriptd: "Reconciliation of Anti-Money Laundering Instruments and European Data Protection Requirements in Permissionless Blockchain Spaces" published in the Journal of Cybersecurity suggests that governments should target cryptocurrencies — especially privacy preserving chains — to combat money laundering.

The author of the paper outlined several methods of undermining trust in permissionless blockchains including 51% attacks, price suppression, and Sybil attacks — a type of malicious activity in which a single user creates multiple accounts to manipulate a network. The author asserted:

"The users’ confidence in the networks may be significantly undermined by successful attacks on networks which could undermine the trust of the blockchain community in the ability of the network’s protocol to ensure smooth operation."

https://cointelegraph.com/news/academic-paper-suggests-state-actors-attack-privacy-chains

https://academic.oup.com/cybersecurity/article/7/1/tyab004/6166133

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🇨🇳🥇CHINA HAS HALTED GOLD RESERVES BUILDING FOR THE 5TH MONTH.

China's Gold reserves were unchanged at 72.80 million ounces, and the value of gold reserves was $191.4 bln vs the previous $183 bln as gold price rose in September.

https://x.com/Sino_Market/status/1843111477462597947

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🛒📚📖 🗣Walmart is now selling a new book noscriptd The Achievements of Kamala Harris—and all the pages are blank.

https://x.com/jackunheard/status/1843056003497218451

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🌐🔫🔫🔫 NATO wants 49 more brigades. That's about 196,000 soldiers, per Die Welt, German national daily newspaper.

While 82 combat brigades were considered sufficient in 2021, in the future there should be 131 of them. This is an increase of 49 of these large units, each of which has a strength of about 4,000 – 5,000 soldiers. This is at least 196 thousand more soldiers.

To lead and support these troops, the number of “combat corps” will increase from 6 to 15, and that of division commands from 24 to 38.

https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article253847236/Absicherung-gegen-Russland-Nato-fordert-49-weitere-Kampftruppen-Brigaden.html

@FelipeChannel

🇮🇱🚨 A whole year since October 7th.

366 days.

A few numbers about rocket launches and alerts, along with a dynamic graph of all alerts from 06:29 on October 7, 2023, until 23:58 on October 6, 2024.

Launches:
13,200 from the Gaza Strip
12,400 from Lebanon
400 from Iran
180 from Yemen
60 from Syria.

Alerts:
10,914 from the Gaza Strip
12,049 from Lebanon
4,384 from Iran
415 from Yemen
60 from Syria
29 from Iraq.
Total alerts including false alarms: 29,177.

Data:
Launches - IDF Spokesperson
Alerts - Home Front Command website

🔗 Little Moiz

🇺🇸📈💰 The crypto executive who could soon be running the SEC

Robinhood Chief Legal Officer Dan Gallagher is emerging as a leading contender to head the Securities and Exchange Commission should Donald Trump win back the presidency, according to a dozen former top regulators, lobbyists and securities lawyers.

“He’d be a natural choice,” one former senior SEC official told MM.

But Gallagher — a onetime SEC commissioner who is known for his affability and political chops — may find himself sparring with the agency first.

The SEC is weighing a lawsuit over Robinhood’s swelling cryptocurrency business in a case that would mark the latest salvo in Chair Gary Gensler‘s crackdown on the $2 trillion market. The SEC is looking into whether Robinhood is operating an unregistered broker-dealer and clearing agency in the crypto markets. Charges are not guaranteed, but if the agency does sue, the resulting legal battle could thrust a new and awkward spotlight onto Gallagher — just as the race for the chairmanship heats up.

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-money/2024/10/07/the-crypto-executive-who-could-soon-be-running-the-sec-00182663

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🇮🇹🤝🇺🇸 BlackRock, the world's largest investment fund, is already inside important Italian strategic assets. Not only that, the American giant, thanks to its enormous liquidity, is buying parts of Italian public debt through the purchase of Government Bonds, per Presa Diretta, Italian investigative TV program.

https://x.com/Presa_Diretta/status/1843025069460553751

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🇺🇸📞🇮🇱❗️ — 📰 Sky News Arabia, quoting its sources:

Washington warned Israel that a strike on nuclear sites in Iran would be responded to by Tehran withdrawing from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

https://fxtwitter.com/SkyNewsArabia_B/status/1843392179491791300