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February 8, 2025

Welcome back to Bitcoin Season 2! For this week’s Writer’s Room, Colin and Charlie cover the release of Tornado Cash co-founder Alexey Pertsev from prison. They also dive into recent policy talking points from Trump’s Crypto Czar, David Sacks, including why stablecoin regulation could become a pillar of this administration’s crypto approach (and what that means for dollar dominance). Plus, what Trump’s executive order for a U.S. Sovereign Wealth Fund means for a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.

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