Shifting Paradigms: Bitcoin Integration into Traditional Finance

In this week's episode of the Coin Stories News Block powered exclusively by Gemini, we cover these major headlines related to Bitcoin, macroeconomics, and global finance:

• CBO projects $3.3 trillion deficit spike from Trump’s new spending bill
• Bitcoin and the American Dream of home ownership: Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac ordered to recognize Bitcoin in mortgage approvals
• Trump pushes for Fed rate cuts and continues to criticize Powell
• Bitcoin seen as a release valve for inflation and asset bubbles
• Billionaire regrets not buying Bitcoin sooner
• Strategy, Metaplanet and other corporations stack more Bitcoin

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---- References mentioned in the episode:

• Trump’s Tax & Spending Bill Passes Key Senate Vote
• What’s Inside Trump’s One Big Beautiful Spending Bill? 
• CBO Estimates Spending Bill Will Add $3.3 Trillion to Deficit
• CRFB’s Estimates of the Senate’s New Spending Bill 
• Trump Would “Love” If Fed Chairman Jerome Powell Resigned 
• S&P 500 Index and Nasdaq-100 Hit New All-Time Highs 
• Mark Moss’s Tweet On Bitcoin Absorbing the Inflation
• Nearly Half of U.S. Households Unable to Afford $250K Home
• Bitcoin Policy Institute Article on Bitcoin-backed MortgagesDirector Bill Pulte’s Order to Consider Bitcoin an Eligible Asset
• FHFA Directs Fannie and Freddie to Explore Cryptocurrencies
• Gemini Launches Tokenized Shares, Starting with MSTR 
• Philippe Laffont’s Interview on CNBC on Bitcoin 
• Metaplanet Surpasses Tesla, Now Holds 12,345 BTC
• Bitcoin Treasury Corporation Stacks $50 Million Worth of BTC
• Semler Scientific Announces a New Entity, CardioVanta
• Anthony Pompliano Launches New Bitcoin Treasury Company
• Strategy Stacks Another 4,980 Bitcoin for $532 million

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