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EP63 The Bitcoin-Backed Shadow Financial System A Strategic Briefing with Matthew Pines
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- Navigating Bitcoin's Noise
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- Aug 6, 2025
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Summary
America’s global power has always been built on controlling networks, money, trade, and communication. But today, those networks are under attack. China’s Belt & Road is building a parallel system, Stablecoins are being weaponized as tools of financial repression, and Bitcoin is emerging as a strategic asset that could flip global finance. Add AI-driven narrative warfare, and we’re entering a battle between centralized control, the Tower and decentralized freedom, the Square. Today, Matthew Pines and I unpack how America’s monetary tech stack is being rebuilt; before it’s too late. Kane McGukin X: https://twitter.com/kanemcgukin kanemcgukin.substack.com Matthew Pines X: https://x.com/matthew_pines https://www.btcpolicy.org/ https://www.btcpolicy.org/articles/a-global-economic-reordering-us-china-competition-and-bitcoin-as-tool-of-us-statecraft