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🚹International Public Notice: The Debt-Credit System🚹

There are two separate financial systems: commercial paper and metal money.

They do connect and interact, but think of them as totally separate for the moment and turn your attention to the most immediate problem:

Commercial paper is the world of stocks, bonds, promissory notes, securitized assets, etc. It's just paper and it results in "debts" and "credits" on ledgers or account books.

A ledger is supposed to keep a running account of debts and credits; an account book keeps track of just one side of the ledger, either all the debts or all the credits.

In 1946, the United States Government Accounting Office (GAO) switched to a different accounting system called "Double Accrual Accounting" or what most of us call keeping two sets of books.

They did away with the ledger.

They split the account books into two completely separate accounting systems both operating under Bar Codes, one for debts, one for credits.

United States carries the debt side: XXX-XX-XXXX
America carries the credit side. XXXXXXXXX

Everyone at the various US Treasuries is used to working with the debt side, because the United States accrues the debt.

Debts are logged on the CUSIP system.
Credits are logged on the AUTOTRIS system.

The two sides are never ledgered, never brought together to "balance" the accounts.

This results in a situation where the debt just keeps piling up on one side and those who only see the debt side fixate on that.

Meanwhile, the credit is piling up in the other account book.

To make it all that much more obscured, they split the income streams {"double accrual" ) coming into the credit side account book into public and private income streams and then split them each again into budgeted and non-budgeted income.

Public income includes all the money coming in from public sources, private income includes the money coming in from private sources -- our purloined estates, in other words.

They split both sources, both public and private, into "budgeted" and "unbudgeted" --- the only money that we see is the budgeted income and the United States account book that tracks the debt.

This makes people fix their attention on the arbitrary amount budgeted as if that is the only money available, and also fixes attention on "the US Debt"--- which, of course, shows only the debt side of the account books.

The "unbudgeted income" is shunted immediately into investment, pension, and revenue funds --- and that just happens to be the lion's share of the income by a large margin.

These huge, Huge, HUGE investment pools are used to rig the entire economic system of the world, and nobody knows they exist, except the top bankers and top investment, pension, and revenue fund managers.

You may have noticed that in the midst of the government shutdown, the pensions keep clicking along. This is because the funds backing the pensions are in a separate system operated by the Social Security Administration that is funneled off the "private" side of the income stream and the non-budgeted income stream investments from the pension fund pools.

It's all just manipulated bookkeeping ---hooey designed to expedite black budgets and political slush funding. And it's compartmentalized so that one hand literally does not know what the other is doing.

As a result, all your former U.S. Treasury Secretaries only know their part in the overall scheme. They are being led to slaughter, because everyone will look to them for answers and all they can do is stand there and pull an Elmer Fudd... yubadadubah, I don't know.

Tell them that they need to have a Zoom Call with Grandma as soon as possible, and we will start to put together the pieces to make a whole quilt.

Meantime, put this little "Thought Experiment" in front of their faces and see if they start to show signs of life:

Fred, a government employee, comes into Sam's Diner. It's lunch time, and Fred is hungry, so he sits down, looks at the menu, and decides he wants a Cheeseburger and Fries.

The waitress comes, takes his order, and returns a few minutes later with his Burger Basket. He eats his lunch, drinks his coffee, she brings his bill.

Fred gives her an I.O.U. issued by "the Federal Reserve" as payment -- literally, a promissory note -- and goes back to work. She puts this I.O.U. in the cash register and passes it onto the next customer as change for a hundred dollar I.O.U.

The second customer leaves Sam's Diner, walks across the street, and uses Fred's original I.O.U. a second time, to buy four pairs of socks.

It's the same I.O.U. and it's being used a second time.

The first time, Fred got a cheeseburger, fries, and coffee in exchange. The second time, Customer Two got four pairs of socks.

The cheeseburger, fries, coffee and socks are all actual and factual.

The debt note is unreal, a symbol of value issued by an unknown debtor--- because the Federal Reserve was and is a private club and is only using a duplicitous name to give the public the impression that it is part of our Federal Government.

And within two transactions, half that debt is already not only "off-ledger", but not being tracked at all.

Each time the same Federal Reserve Note passes hands, the actual "debt" owed by the Federal Reserve increases, and so does the "credit" owed to the living Americans, who are providing actual goods and services in inequitable exchange

The people using and accepting these "notes" (under force of Legal Tender Laws that are supposed to apply only to government employees and "United States" Corporations) have no way to evaluate the credit-worthiness of the "Federal Reserve" but have been circumstantially obligated to extend credit to it for over a hundred years.

Every time that 'Federal Reserve' debt note is used in a transaction, it is extracting actual goods and services from the living people and from our economy in inequitable exchange for a promise to pay in the future.

Each Federal Reserve Note used in this fashion may be exchanged hundreds and hundreds of times during the course of its "lifetime", and it will continue to extract actual goods and services every time it is used to "pay" for something, but of course, it doesn't actually pay back anything in exchange.

This inequitable exchange is the source of the ever-burgeoning "United States National Debt".

It's also the source of the utterly immense "American National Credit" --- owed for the actual goods and services paid out by the living people, and never paid for by the Federal Reserve.

The 1909 "Federal Reserve System" went bankrupt in 2009, right on schedule, and cast its debts right back onto the people who extended all the credit to it in the first place.

Thus, the living people and our actual economy were bilked over and over and over in a "something for nothing" scam every time a Federal Reserve Note was used in a transaction, and then, on top of it, the living people were tagged as the Underwriters responsible for paying the debts (plus interest) of the Federal Reserve System's bankruptcy.

Is this the "good faith service" owed by the other Principal Parties to The Constitution of the United States and The Constitution of the United States of America? Hardly.

Their fraudulent misrepresentation of the American People as British Subjects, and later, as disembodied Roman Municipal Estate Trusts, their inexcusable latching upon our assets, failure to disclose, and crimes of misrepresentation, personage and barratry against us stand as full condemnation of the corporations.

The living people are owed an absolutely immense amount of credit and the return of actual goods and services, or both. It is this fact that has caused the corporations to implement a forced reduction of the population --- they are attempting to kill as many of their creditors as possible.

This criminality must end, either with the total liquidation of these corporations, or their forfeiture and placement under new management.

All this drive for "population reduction" does is further condemn the corporations and those responsible for their existence and administration -- and gives further absolute proof of corporate criminality.

These "dead" entities have been forcing the living people to pay their debts, their taxes, their loans, their slush funds, their investment costs, and everything else for more than a hundred years.

And now, their extraction mill must turn and roll in the other direction.

This basic circumstance as herein described is the source of the American National Credit and the National Credit owed to all the other living people from other countries who have been bilked by this same basic fraud scheme operated under different names.

No wonder those who have profited most from the con games are squealing the loudest, but there is one paramount fact. Corporations are ultimately formed and operated by living people, so as living people, all stand to gain from this reversal.

We are ordering the credit accounts to be brought forward; we are making realistic estimates of the off-ledger credit owed to the living people. We are ordering credit to be issued from the American side to immediately offset "National Debt" and the establishment of prepaid credit accounts for all living people.

Each prepaid credit "Harmony Dollar" will be equal in value to one January 1st 1970 US Silver Dollar or the then-equivalent of $48 Federal Reserve Notes, and for every Harmony Dollar spent an equal value-number of Federal Reserve Debt Notes will be removed from the system, until all debt notes are cancelled and only credit remains.

As consumers receive back Harmony Dollars as spendable prepaid credit -- just like a gift card -- and spend these credits back into the economy, they automatically pay down the remaining off-ledger debt amassed by the Federal Reserve.

The Harmony Dollar has been attacked and derided as a "Universal Currency", apparently because people think it is running competition with national currencies. The proper way to look at it is as an available miniature hedge fund that anyone, anywhere, can access.

Because the value of the Harmony Dollar ultimately depends on the success or failure of each national currency, each success is to be celebrated no matter which country is excelling, and each failure or loss in value, is buffered.

The debt-credit system has been vilified and misrepresented as being funded on "thin air", but domestically, it has always been funded by the labor, energy, performance contracts, goods and services provided by living men and women, and internationally, it has been funded by standard commodities -- gold, silver, and most recently, refined petroleum products.

The only thing bad about this system, which has some advantages, is the way in which evil men and dishonest bookkeeping conspired to defraud and enslave the living people for the benefit of corporations.

So, "someday" has come, and prepaid credit is the means we shall use to extract payment-in-kind, which is perfectly fair and easily implemented.

Everyone knows how gift cards work. We already paid.

The only thing that might be argued is our choice of the January 1st 1970 dollar-value standard.

We could have gone back to 1934, but in order to do that, we would have to also invoke what happened in 1909, which would have triggered an "insurmountable debt" scenario that would have caused death and destruction instead of what is needed --- gradual correction beneficial to the living people of this planet.

As the present debt is removed using the 1970 standard, it gradually becomes possible to adopt different standards and address commercial debt back to 1934, back to 1909, and ultimately back to when all this started, in the 1840's.

The only thing we need to fear is ignorance and lack of resolve.

The living people of this planet and the planet itself have been pillaged by corporations operated by men and women -- some knowingly, some unknowingly -- engaged in criminal activities that have benefited their corporations at the expense of life and peace.

We are now called to set things right, so that life may be nurtured again and peace returned. We are aware that it isn't just the present generation's losses that need recoupment. We must all also be aware that the problem(s) plaguing the credit and monetary systems developed over the course of 185 years, and accept that complete correction will take decades to fully accomplish.

As the True Creditors, the living people are free to establish those ways and means best suited to their ultimate and mutual benefit and the benefit of the planet. The 1970 value standard allows us to "unbind" in reverse sequence and follows the Maxim of Law, "As a thing is bound, so it is unbound."

As the living people sense the return of their freedom, dignity, and position in creation, and begin to explore and experience life -- not as slaves, not as debtors, but as co-creators, miracles will come and vast changes, too, as our discernment expands.

The planet as a whole has been deeply indoctrinated into the concept of "money" so we will need financial systems to deal with money and credit for a while longer, but we can already see a day when we will look back on this and it will all seem -- not just funny -- ridiculous.

We will address the asset-backed monetary system in another posting.

Notice to Agents is Notice to Principals; Notice to Principals is Notice to Agents.

Issued by:
Anna Maria Riezinger -- Fiduciary
The United States of America
In care of: Box 520994
Big Lake, Alaska 99652
November 8th 2025

Source: http://www.paulstramer.net/2025/11/international-public-notice-debt-credit.html

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XDC Network's acquisition of Contour Network marks a silent shift to connect the digital trade infrastructure to real-time, tokenized settlement rails.

In a world where cross-border payments still take days and trap trillions in idle liquidity, integrating Contour’s trade workflows with XDC Network Blockchains' ISO 20022 financial messaging standard to bridge TradFi and Web3 in Trade Finance.

The Current State of Cross-Border Trade Settlements

Cross-border payments remain one of the most inefficient parts of global finance. For decades, companies have inter-dependency with banks and their correspondent banks across the world, forcing them to maintain trillions of dollars in pre-funded nostro and vostro balances — the capital that sits idle while transactions crawl across borders.

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Documentation → Validation → Settlement all under a single infrastructure.

XDC Ventures (XVC.TECH) is launching a Stable-Coin Lab to work with financial institutions on regulated stablecoin pilots for trade to deepen institutional trade-finance integration through launch of pilots with banks and corporates for regulated stable-coin issuance and settlement.

The Bottom Line

Payments alone won’t transform Global Trade Finance — Trade finance + Tokenized Settlement will.

This is the shift happening underway XDC Network's acquisition of Contour is the quiet catalyst.

Learn how trade finance is being revolutionised:

https://www.reuters.com/press-releases/xdc-ventures-acquires-contour-network-launches-stablecoin-lab-trade-finance-2025-10-22/

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Inside The Deal That Made Polymarket’s Founder One Of The Youngest Billionaires On Earth🌍

One year ago, the FBI raided Polymarket founder Shayne Coplan’s apartment. Now, the college dropout is a billionaire at age 27.

In July, Jeffrey Sprecher, the 70-year-old billionaire CEO of Intercontinental Exchange, the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, sat at Manhatta, an upscale restaurant in the financial district overlooking the sprawling New York City skyline from the 60th floor. As a sommelier weaved through tables pouring wine, in walked Shayne Coplan—in a T-shirt and jeans, clutching a plastic water bottle and a paper bag with a bagel he’d picked up en route. Sprecher chuckles as he recalls his first impression of the boyish, eccentric entrepreneur: “An old bald guy that works at the New York Stock Exchange, where we require that you wear a suit and tie, next to a mop-headed guy in a T-shirt that's 27.” But Sprecher was fascinated by Polymarket, Coplan’s blockchain-based prediction market, and after dinner, he made his move: “I asked Shayne if he would consider selling us his company.”

Prediction markets like Polymarket let thousands of ordinary people bet on future events—the unemployment rate, say, or when BitCoin will hit an all-time high. In aggregate, prediction market bets have proven to be something of a crystal ball with the wisdom of the crowd often proving itself more prescient than expert opinion. For instance, Polymarket punters predicted that Trump would prevail in the 2024 presidential election, when many national pundits were sure that Kamala Harris would win.

Coplan initially turned down Sprecher’s buyout offer. But discussions led to negotiations and eventually a deal. In October, Intercontinental announced it had invested $2 billion for an up to 25% stake in the company, bringing the young solo founder the balance he was looking for. “We're consumer, we’re viral, we're culture. They’re finance, they’re headless and they’re infrastructure,” Coplan tells Forbes in a recent interview.

At the same time, Coplan announced investments from other billionaires including Figma’s Dylan Field, Zynga’s Mark Pincus, Uber’s Travis Kalanick and hedge fund manager Glenn Dubin. A longtime Red Hot Chili Peppers fan, Coplan even convinced lead singer Anthony Kiedis to invest after a mutual acquaintance brought the musician to Coplan’s apartment one day. “He's buzzing my door, and I’m like, ‘holy shit,'” Coplan recalls, his bright blue eyes widening. “I love their music. A lot of the inspiration [for my work] comes from the music that I listen to.”

Thanks to the deals, Polymarket’s valuation quickly shot to $9 billion, making the 2025 Under 30 alum the world’s youngest self-made billionaire, with an estimated 11% stake worth $1 billion. His reign was short: twenty days later, he was overtaken as the youngest by the three 22-year-old founders of AI startup Mercor.

Young entrepreneurs are minting ten-figure fortunes faster than ever. In addition to the Mercor trio and Coplan, 15 other Under 30 alumni—including ScaleAI cofounder Lucy Guo, Reddit’s Steve Huffman and Cursor’s cofounders—became billionaires this year, while Guo’s cofounder Alexandr Wang and Robinhood’s Vlad Tenev (both former Under 30 honorees) regained their billionaire status after having fallen out of the ranks.

The budding billionaire has long been fascinated by markets and tech. When he was just 14, Coplan emailed the regional Securities and Exchange Commission office to ask how to create new marketplaces. “I did not get a response, but it’s a really funny email,” he says, grinning playfully as he thinks of his younger self. “It just shows that this stuff takes over a decade of percolating in your mind.”

Two years later, Coplan showed up at the offices of internet startup Genius uninvited after multiple emails of his asking for an internship went ignored. At age 16—at least a decade younger than anyone in that office—he secured his first job after making a memorable impression with his “wild curls” and “encyclopedic knowledge of billionaire tech entrepreneurs.” “If he chooses to become a tech entrepreneur, which seems likely, I have no doubt that we’ll be seeing his name again in the press before long,” Chris Glazek, his manager at the time, wrote in Coplan’s college recommendation letter.

Coplan went on to study computer science at NYU, but dropped out in 2017 to work on various crypto projects that never took off. In 2020, he founded Polymarket to create a solution to the “rampant misinformation” he saw in the world: The company’s first market allowed users to bet on when New York City would reopen amid the pandemic. He soon expanded into elections and pop culture happenings, among other events.

But it didn’t take long for the company to butt heads with regulators. In January 2022, Polymarket paid a $1.4 million fine to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for offering unregistered markets. It was also ordered to block all U.S. users, but activity on Polymarket skyrocketed particularly during the 2024 U.S. presidential election, with bets totaling $3.6 billion. A week after the election, the FBI raided Coplan's apartment and seized his devices as part of an investigation into a possible violation of this agreement. Shortly after, Coplan posted on his X account that he saw the raid as “a last-ditch effort” from the Biden administration “to go after companies they deem to be associated with political opponents.”

In July, the Department of Justice and CFTC dropped the investigations—after which Sprecher reached out to Coplan for dinner—and less than a week later, Polymarket announced it had acquired CFTC-licensed derivatives exchange QCX to prepare for a compliant U.S. launch. QCX applied to be a federally-registered exchange in 2022—an application that was left dormant for three years before receiving approval less than two weeks before the acquisition was announced. When asked about the timing of the deal, Coplan points to CFTC acting chairwoman Caroline Pham, who President Trump tapped to lead the agency in January. “Caroline deserves a lot of credit for getting every single license that had been paused for no reason approved, as acting chairwoman in less than a year,” he says. Coplan had realized an acquisition might be the only way for Polymarket to legally operate in the U.S. as early as 2021 due to the lengthy federal approval process, a source familiar with the deal told Forbes.

Just two months after the acquisition and days after Donald Trump Jr. joined Polymarket’s advisory board, the company received federal approval to launch in the U.S. (Trump Jr. has also served as a strategic advisor to Polymarket’s main competitor Kalshi since January.)

Polymarket’s rapid rise has drawn critics. Dennis Kelleher, co-founder and CEO of Washington-based financial advocacy group Better Markets, told Forbes in an email that the current administration’s deregulation around prediction markets has unlocked a regulatory “loophole” to enable “unregulated gambling” under the CFTC, “which has zero expertise, capacity or resources to regulate and police these markets.” Kelleher added that with backing from the Trump family “who are directly trying to profit on this new gambling den
 the massive deregulation and crypto hysteria will almost certainly end badly for the American people.”

Investors and businesses are scrambling to seize the moment of deregulation. “We had opportunities to invest in events markets earlier, but there was a lot of risk,” Sprecher says, listing the regulatory changes in favor of crypto and prediction markets under the current administration. “This was the moment to invest if we wanted to still be early in the space.”

In the last few months, Trump’s Truth Social and sportsbook FanDuel, as well as cryptocurrency exchanges Crypto.com, Coinbase and Gemini all announced their own plans to offer prediction markets. Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev said prediction markets, which were integrated into its platform in March, were helping drive record activity for the retail brokerage in its third quarter earnings call.

“People are starting to realize right now that the opportunities are endless,” says Dubin, the billionaire hedge fund veteran who invested in Polymarket earlier this year. He points to sports betting companies, which have been regulated by states as gambling activity and taxed accordingly. States like New York can tax up to 51% of sportsbooks’ revenue, but federally-regulated prediction markets can bypass state laws, avoiding taxes and operating in all 50 states. With the realization that prediction markets could upend the sports betting industry—which brought in $13.7 billion in revenue in 2024—businesses are quickly jumping on board despite pushback from state gambling regulators. In October, both Polymarket and Kalshi secured partnerships with sportsbook PrizePicks and the National Hockey League, and Polymarket announced exclusive partnerships with sportsbook DraftKings and the Ultimate Fighting Championship.

The disruption won’t be limited to sports betting. Alongside its investment, Intercontinental’s tens of thousands of institutional clients including large hedge funds and over 750 third-party providers of data will soon have access to Polymarket data, as it gets integrated into Intercontinental’s products such as indices to better inform investment decisions. It also hopes to work with Polymarket to work on initiatives around tokenization—or converting financial assets into digital tokens on blockchain technology—to allow traders on Intercontinental’s exchanges to trade more flexibly at all hours of the day, Sprecher says. What’s more, in November, Google Finance announced it would integrate Polymarket and Kalshi data into its search results, while Yahoo Finance also announced an exclusive partnership with Polymarket.

Despite flashy investors, partnerships and a record $2.4 billion of trading volume in November, Polymarket has yet to launch in the U.S. or turn a profit. Coplan and his investors have hinted at ways the company could make money one day—selling its data, charging fees to users, launching a cryptocurrency token (similar to Ethereum or Bitcoin)—but decline to confirm any specifics. For now, the only thing that’s certain is the bet Coplan is making on himself. “Going for it and having it not pan out is an infinitely better outcome than living your life as a what if,” he says.

Standing across from the New York Stock Exchange building, Coplan tilts his head up as he watches a massive banner with Polymarket’s logo get hoisted onto the exterior of the building. It’s been five years since founding. One year since the FBI raid. He’s taking it all in. “Against all odds,” the bright blue banner reads, rippling in the wind alongside three American flags protruding from the building.

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Epstein-Linked Emails Expose Funding Ties to Bitcoin Core Development — Here Is What the Documents Reveal
  • Newly released emails show Jeffrey Epstein helped fund MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative, which supported Bitcoin Core development.
  • The documents also confirm that Leon Black donated to MIT’s Media Lab through Epstein-directed channels.
  • The revelations reshape part of Bitcoin’s early institutional funding history and highlight long-hidden influence from controversial donors.

Newly unsealed emails from the House Oversight Committee have shed fresh light on Jeffrey Epstein’s hidden financial influence inside MIT’s Media Lab — and more importantly, how some of that money flowed into Bitcoin Core development. The correspondence reveals that Joichi Ito, then-director of the MIT Media Lab, relied on Epstein-connected “gift funds” to rapidly launch the Digital Currency Initiative (DCI) in 2015, the research hub that became one of the primary sources of funding for Bitcoin’s core developers.

Emails Show Epstein-Connected Money Helped Launch MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative

In the newly surfaced emails, Ito directly thanked Epstein for the financial help that allowed MIT to “move quickly and win this round,” referring to the formation of DCI — a program explicitly designed to provide long-term support for Bitcoin Core contributors after the collapse of the Bitcoin Foundation. Ito’s forwarded message to Epstein described how the foundation’s implosion left core developers without stable funding, creating an opening for MIT to bring them under its umbrella.

He explained that three major developers — including Wladimir van der Laan and Cory Fields — agreed to join MIT, calling it “a big win for us.” The email also highlighted early support from prominent academics, including cryptographer Ron Rivest and IMF economist Simon Johnson. Epstein simply replied: “gavin is clever.”

Funding Numbers Reveal a Much Larger Financial Trail

MIT publicly claimed that Epstein donated $850,000 to the institution, with $525,000 flowing to the Media Lab. But journalist Ronan Farrow later reported the true figure was closer to $7.5 million — including a $5 million anonymous donation connected to Epstein associate Leon Black. The new emails appear to confirm that Black not only donated, but did so through Epstein’s direction.

One email from Ito to Epstein reads: “We were able to keep the Leon Black money, but the $25K from your foundation is getting bounced by MIT back to ASU.”

 

Epstein responded: “No problem — trying to get more black for you.”

The documents reveal Epstein’s influence reached deeper into Bitcoin circles than previously acknowledged, even including early conversations with Brock Pierce — another figure with documented ties to both Epstein and controversy surrounding early crypto foundations.

MIT’s Internal Concerns and the Fallout

The emails also expose MIT’s internal unease around anonymous or reputationally risky donations. After the scandal broke, Ito resigned in 2019. MIT later tightened donation policies, warning that “everything becomes public” eventually — a statement that now seems prophetic given this week’s disclosures.

Developers like Wladimir van der Laan say they were unaware of the extent of Epstein’s involvement and noted that DCI’s funding transparency “was not great back in the day.” The Media Lab and DCI declined to comment.

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