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Bitcoin news and financial news update. Today I cover the IMF praising El Salvador’s economic progress while pushing for less state involvement in Bitcoin, Stripe’s plan to expand stablecoin cards to more than 100 countries, Metaplanet’s 10,000 BTC sale and 11,000 BTC repurchase, and Strategy adding another 334 BTC. I also get into Chainalysis using AI to trace the $387 million Bitget hack to North Korea-linked actors and the economic stakes if the AI investment boom slows. Topics for today: IMF Pressures El Salvador’s Bitcoin Strategy Stripe Expands Stablecoin Cards Globally Metaplanet Sells 10,000 BTC, Buys 11,000 Strategy Adds 334 BTC, Hits 848,000 Chainalysis Uses AI to Trace Bitget Hack AI Slowdown Raises Economic Risk Today’s Articles covering bitcoin news, financial news, and economic news: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/news/imf-praises-el-salvador-but-blasts-bitcoin https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/10/01/stripe-to-expand-stablecoin-cards-to-over-100-countries-by-the-end-of-the-year https://decrypt.co/380053/metaplanet-sold-10000-bitcoin-and-bought-back-11000-to-prove-a-point https://www.theblock.co/news/business/2026-10-05-more-orange-than-ever-michael-saylor-strategy-bitcoin-417631 https://decrypt.co/380005/chainalysis-ai-87m-bitget-hack-north-korea https://cointelegraph.com/features/too-big-to-pause-the-economic-stakes-of-an-ai-slowdown Get Your Free Comfrey Owner's Manual Here: https://www.bitcoinandshow.com/the-comfrey-owners-manual-is-here/ Help a Brother Out With 5 Star Reviews: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bitcoin-and-bitcoin-economic-news/id1438789088 Spotify Podcasts: https://open.spotify.com/show/1dsTluNHIPNsXVRghpqxhY Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9ef7d5b6-9137-439d-94eb-8071ec6bf890/bitcoin-and-bitcoin-economic-news YouTube Music: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWaKxaQF5Q5WiTq80SBYs_7iLDtleV0rZ Find the Bitcoin And Podcast on every podcast app here: https://episodes.fm/1438789088 Find me on nostr npub1vwymuey3u7mf860ndrkw3r7dz30s0srg6tqmhtjzg7umtm6rn5eq2qzugd (npub) 6389be6491e7b693e9f368ece88fcd145f07c068d2c1bbae4247b9b5ef439d32 (Hex) Twitter: https://twitter.com/DavidB84567 StackerNews: stacker.news/NunyaBidness Podcasting 2.0: fountain.fm/show/eK5XaSb3UaLRavU3lYrI Apple Podcasts: tinyurl.com/unm35bjh Mastodon: https://noauthority.social/@NunyaBidness Support Bitcoin And . . . on Patreon: patreon.com/BitcoinAndPodcast Find Lightning Network Channel partners here: https://t.me/+bj-7w_ePsANlOGEx (Nodestrich) https://t.me/plebnet (Plebnet) Music by: Flutey Funk Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/