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People wonder why no one takes people in Bitcoin seriously Meanwhile, they'll unironically announce that "freedom tech is becoming American foreign policy" when a Bitcoin think tank joins a State Dept tech program featuring literal surveillance and defense contractors to
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AI visual note: The image shows a "Partners" page for FTEP (a State Department program) listing Palantir Technologies, Anduril Industries, Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, and Bitcoin Policy Institute as partners. It directly illustrates the post's irony by showing a Bitcoin think tank participating in a "digital freedom" initiative alongside notorious surveillance (Palantir) and defense (Anduril) contractors under the U.S. State Department.
The fact that Frank Mazza (from Metallicus) is part of the Digital Assets Work Group at the U.S. Faster Payments Council that produced this report demonstrates how Metallicus is actively helping shape industry best practices and architectures for stablecoin payments from within.