The patent hoarding developers and investors associated with PayPal and Google who built the first iteration of e-commerce and digital advertising have turned to the blockchain to fulfill their vision of total financial surveillance and the circumnavigation of government-issued money.
While J.D. Vance has his own controversies, his close connection to billionaire Peter Thiel, who is poised to have unprecedented influence in a new Trump administration, should deeply unsettle every American who cares about freedom, privacy and reining in the surveillance state.
Whitney Webb and Mark Goodwin joined What Bitcoin Did with Peter McCormack to discuss how intelligence agencies capture everything. Part one available on YouTube, Rumble and in podcast apps. Part two available on YouTube and Rumble.
Part One
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Endeavor, a self-described “mafia” multiplier backed by Bronfman, Omidyar and Hoffman, groomed the founders who dominate Latin American fintech, including Xapo’s Wences Casares, who helped build the Bitcoin-Dollar system with advisers like Larry Summers.
Facing a wave of patent cliffs, Big Pharma is betting on risky biotech. The WHO’s revised pandemic treaty, shaped by its private funders, would build a permanent market for this biotech despite its past regulatory challenges.
