News Block: UAE Asks U.S. for Wartime Dollar Lifeline, Former Treasury Secretary Warns of a "Vicious" Debt Crisis, Strategy's $1 Billion STRC Day

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

• Bitcoin Pulls Back from $78k as Geopolitical Tensions Rattle Markets
• UAE Threatens to Diversify from the Dollar to Chinese Yuan in Wartime Oil Deals
• Paulson Warns of a "Vicious" U.S. Debt Crisis
• Strategy's STRC Hits $1 Billion in Single-Day Volume and Proposes Bi-Monthly Dividends
• Goldman Sachs Files for Bitcoin ETF as Wall Street Race Heats Up

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References mentioned in the episode:

• Bitcoin Climbs to Two-Month High Amid Middle East Deal Optimism
• Fox Business: Bitcoin Is a Lifeline for Iranian People
• Bitcoin's War Rally Is Forcing a Rethink Beyond "Digital Gold"
• Luke Gromen's Tweet on WSJ Scoop on UAE and Dollar Swap Lines
• The IMF Just Repriced the Macro Backdrop for Bitcoin with a Global Debt Warning
• Henry Paulson Suggests US Make a Break-Glass Treasuries Plan
• Strategy's STRC Sees Record Breaking Trading Day
• Strategy's STRC $1.1 Billion Volume: Saylor's Bitcoin Buying Engine
• STRC.live Tracker
• Strategy Proposes Semi-Monthly Dividends on its Popular STRC Preferred Stock
• Why Michael Saylor's Strategy Decided to Make STRC's Dividend Bi-Monthly
• Strategy Corporate Announcement on STRC Dividend Payments
• Michael Saylor "Think Even Bigger" Post
• Tether Adds $70 Million in Bitcoin to Reserves, Holdings Above 97,000 BTC
• Morgan Stanley's Bitcoin ETF Reaches $100M in First Week, Marking the Bank's Strongest Launch
• Goldman Sachs Files for Bitcoin ETF That Invests in Other Bitcoin ETFs
• Nate Geraci on Goldman's Bitcoin Premium Income ETF
• BlackRock's IBIT: Nearly $100 Billion Bitcoin Giant
• Nomura Study Says 65% of Institutional Investors See Crypto as a Vital Portfolio Diversifier

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