Episode notes
In this week's episode of the Coin Stories News Block powered exclusively by Ledn, we cover these major headlines related to Bitcoin, macroeconomics, and global finance:
- The jobs report comes in 3x stronger than expected
- Why this week's inflation numbers could decide the Fed's next move
- The old stock option formula that has some Metaplanet shareholders in revolt
- Oil: the inflation problem the Fed can't fix by raising rates
- Nearly 4,000 Bitcoin pulled from Blockstream's Liquid Network -- hackers returned 85% Monday
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