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Newshour - Gold surges past $4,000 an ounce

The price of gold has hit a record high of more than $4,000 an ounce as investors look for safe places to put their money over concerns about economic and political uncertainty around the world.

Also in the programme: Is time running out for France's President Emmanuel Macron? And we meet the woman trying to become the first person on record to walk the length of Saudi Arabia, from north to south.

(Photo: Gold bars at bullion house in Mumbai. Credit: Reuters/Arko Datta/File Photo)

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NPR's Book of the Day - For her latest novel, Patricia Lockwood says she wanted to write about confusion

In Patricia Lockwood’s latest novel, the protagonist is an author named Patricia. Will There Ever Be Another You documents a four-year period of disorientation, disassociation and confusion after Patricia becomes severely ill. The story is based on Lockwood’s own experience with brain fog and other symptoms after becoming sick with Covid-19 in March 2020. In today’s episode, the real-life author talks with NPR’s Ari Shapiro about embodying confusion as she wrote about it.


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CoinDesk Podcast Network - BITCOIN SEASON 2: Why Filters Are Playing Into The Fed’s Hands w/ Fluffypony

Riccardo Spagni (“Fluffypony”), former Monero lead maintainer, says that Bitcoin's filter debate mirrors the blocksize wars, why most nodes don't matter for consensus, and what real Bitcoin privacy looks like. Plus: he accidentally becoming a WorldCoin top influencer.


Riccardo Spagni (Fluffypony), former Monero lead maintainer, joins the Bitcoin filter debate and explains why it's following the same playbook as the blocksize wars. Riccardo explains his early studies on Sybil attacking Bitcoin nodes, why filtering is fundamentally broken censorship, the thankless job of being a protocol maintainer. We also discuss his WorldCoin criticism, AI agent commerce, and why stablecoins will likely dominate machine-to-machine payments.

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**Notes:**

• Bitcoin nodes connect to 8 peers by default

• Fiber network enabled faster miner-to-miner relay

• Filtering OP_RETURN stops only 1 of 6 data methods

• Spagni maintained Monero 2014-2019 (5 years)

• Lightning privacy requires permanent open channels

• AI agents will likely use stablecoins, not Bitcoin

Timestamps:

00:00 Start

01:16 Who is Fluffypony?

06:45 Worldcoin influencer?

09:30 Filters (that don't filter anything)

12:53 Why don't "all nodes matter"?

18:35 Knots node count

23:16 OK, define censorship

31:24 Community criticism

38:26 The future of the "filter TM" debate

42:44 On-chain privacy

48:32 The state of Bitcoin privacy

53:23 OP_CTV

56:05 AI + Bitcoin

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - Why CCP Games is Building a New Universe for EVE Frontier on Sui

Unveiling the launch of EVE Frontier on Layer-1 Blockchain Sui with CCP Games CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson and Mysten Labs Co-Founder and CTO Sam Blackshear.

In an exclusive interview, CoinDesk's Sam Ewen sit downs with CCP Games CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson and Mysten Labs Co-Founder and CTO Sam Blackshear unveil the launch of launch EVE Frontier on the Layer-1 blockchain, Sui. They dive into the core reason why CCP is building a successor to its legendary MMO to create a player-owned, "forever" universe. Plus, they explore how Sui’s architecture, originally designed for high-performance gaming, enables the real-time, massive space battles and player-moddable economy that EVE Frontier demands.

For more information, visit www.evefrontier.com.

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Bridge simplifies global money movement. As the leading stablecoin issuance and orchestration platform, Bridge abstracts away blockchain complexity so businesses can seamlessly move between fiat and stablecoins. From payroll providers and remittance companies to neobanks and treasury teams, Bridge powers payments, savings, and stablecoin issuance for thousands – like Shopify, Metamask, Remitly, and more.

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This episode was hosted by Sam Ewen.

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Money Girl - Debt After Death–Does It Die With You?

964. Laura reviews what happens to your debt when you die and tips for better estate planning.

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Marketplace All-in-One - Using tariffs to help farmers … harmed by tariffs

When President Donald Trump slapped tariffs on Chinese goods earlier this year, China ceased crop purchases from U.S. farmers. That hurt American agriculture, so the government hopes to help those farmers out with aid using tariff revenue. Trump did this during his last trade war. Today, we'll outline how it all played out. Plus, the price of gold keeps climbing, and we check in with a tea shop owner about how tariffs are affecting business.

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CBS News Roundup - 10/08/2025 | World News Roundup

Texas National Guard boots on the ground in Illinois. James Comey has a day in court. Air travel gets squeezed more by the government shutdown. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has those stories and more on the World News Roundup podcast.


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Marketplace All-in-One - Gold prices surge to a new record

From the BBC World Service: Gold has breached $4,000 an ounce for the first time, following one of its strongest monthly performances and its biggest sustained rally since the 1970s. What's driving the surge? Then, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is attending a two-day summit in India focused on trade, but he's insisting the U.K. won't issue more visas to Indian workers. Also on the show: Trump's "gold card" visas and newly minted billionaire soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo.