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Jun 18, 2026 39 min

Oman's Mining | Bitcoin News

from Bitcoin And | Bitcoin & Economic News Hosted by David Bennett | Bitcoin & Economic News

Bitcoin news and economic news update. Today I cover the Fed holding interest rates steady while signaling a more hawkish policy stance, Bitcoin dropping under $64,000 after the announcement, Oman launching a mandatory national Bitcoin mining pool, and Binance facing new MiCA trouble in Greece. This episode also touches on bitcoin regulation, macro news, quantum encryption, AI agent identity, and another DeFi exploit from abandoned smart contract infrastructure. Topics for today: Fed Holds Rates, Signals Hikes Bitcoin Drops Below $64,000 Oman Launches Bitcoin Mining Pool Binance MiCA Application Stalls France Pushes Quantum-Safe Encryption Ryan Salame’s Wife Faces Charges Estonia Plans AI Agent IDs CME Plans CFTC Lawsuit Aztec Hit By Second Exploit Today's Articles: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/news/fed-signals-rate-hikes-as-kevin-warsh https://bitcoinmagazine.com/news/oman-launches-mandatory-bitcoin-mining https://atlas21.com/ecb-lagarde-allegedly-blocked-binances-mica-license-in-greece/ https://decrypt.co/371487/france-phase-out-non-quantum-encryption-bitcoin-security-concerns-grow https://cointelegraph.com/news/ryan-salames-wife-to-face-charges-over-ftx-funded-congressional-run https://decrypt.co/371441/estonia-ai-agents-national-id https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/06/17/cme-chief-executive-says-company-plans-to-sue-cftc-after-perpetual-futures-approval https://cointelegraph.com/news/aztec-exploited-21-million-previous-hack-slowmist 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/

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  1. 0:01 Opening, agenda, and market tease
  2. 2:01 Fed holds rates; Chair Kevin WallerBsicD signals hawkish shift
  3. 5:01 Dot plot, tone change, and political read-through
  4. 9:10 Market psychology and midterm speculation
  5. 10:01 Oman launches mandatory national Bitcoin mining pool
  6. 14:13 ECB27s Christine Lagarde and Binance27s stalled MiCA bid in Greece
  7. 16:57 France to phase out non-quantum encryption; crypto implications
  8. 20:19 Markets and metrics: energy, metals, ag, indices, Bitcoin stats
  9. 23:52 Part 2 intro and listener boosts
  10. 24:00 Michelle Bond case: alleged FTX-funded campaign violations
  11. 27:40 Estonia proposes national IDs for AI agents
  12. 32:11 CME to sue CFTC over perpetual futures approval
  13. 34:14 Aztec suffers second exploit; risks of deprecated smart contracts
  14. 37:47 Sign-off and upcoming reruns: soil, farming, and travel update

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