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Bitcoin has reclaimed $80,000 BTC priced in gold is about to
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print its first green monthly close after 7 red months in a
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row. The four year cycle people
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buried six months ago hold that thought.
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While everyone is staring at the price. the US government just
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quietly finished building the biggest piece of monetary
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infrastructure since 1971, and it's hidden inside a piece of
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crypto legislation everyone is calling a compromise.
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By the end of this video, you'll see the architecture being built
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underneath the price. You'll see why every piece of
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macro pressure forces the same outcome and why the people
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building it have no idea they're building a massive Bitcoin
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distribution channel. Welcome to the most bullish
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setup of the year. This is truth block.
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I'm Hurley. Let's mind truth.
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Let's start today with the chart because price is talking and
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it's saying something quite different from what it was two
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months ago. Bitcoin is back above 80 K
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Bitcoin priced in gold just bounced off 7 straight red
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months. And on the monthly chart,
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Bitcoin is on track to close its first green month since the
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cycle high. Every time that's happened
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before, it's marked the end of a bear and the start of the next
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leg up. Now I know we're all sick of
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hearing about the four year cycle debate, but I need to
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address the elephant in the room.
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I was loud about the four year cycle being dead in 2025 and I
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had my reasons that I don't need to rehash here.
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And yet here we are, Bitcoin holding above 80 K like it
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forgot it's supposed to be in a bear market.
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Plan C on acts late of the data and it's hard to argue with.
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When Bitcoin enters a real extended bear market
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historically it drops 77 to 93%. The mid cycle corrections.
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Think COVID 2020 in the China mining ban in 2021 those landed
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in the mid 50s. This drawdown bottomed at 50%
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down from the highs. That's not a bear, that's a mid
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cycle correction. So is the four year cycle
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actually dead or did we just take the same correction Bitcoin
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took right before its second peak in 21?
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So you're telling me there's a chance?
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Here's what I love about this setup.
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It doesn't matter which one is right if the cycle is dead.
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You get a slow grind to new highs because the new buyer base
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eats every dip. If the cycle is alive, you get a
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face melting second peak in 2027 with a true cycle top both rows
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and at the same place Bitcoin is going up.
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But the bullish case isn't really about the chart.
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The chart is the symptom. The setup is the new global
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monetary order. And this architecture is what
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few people outside the Bitcoin echo chamber are connecting.
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So let's pull back the lens a bit, because to understand the
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architecture being built, you have to understand the math
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forcing them to build it. This week, James Lavish wrote it
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up cleanly in his Informationist newsletter, which I highly
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recommend everyone subscribe to. Right now, US publicly held debt
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just crossed 100% of GDP for the first time since 1946.
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The last time we sat at this number, the country was emerging
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from the largest war in human history.
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Today, there's no World War yet, no baby boom coming to save us.
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There's no manufacturing miracle on the horizon.
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That's the visible debt, about $39 trillion.
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But add in the unfunded promises, Medicare, Social
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Security, federal pensions, and the bill swells to 170 trillion.
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That's 1.3 million owed against the future for every American
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household. The median American family is
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worth $193,000. The country owes 7 times what
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the typical family is worth. Janet Yellen had the wheel for
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four years of that climb. She's now calling it fiscal
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dominance. In plain English, it means the
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Fed can't set rates anymore. The Treasury can't afford
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anything except cheap money, so the central bank serves the
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deficit, not the economy. The bond market knows, the gold
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market knows, and Bitcoin knows. So what's the way out?
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Lynn Alden has been one of the clearest voices on this for
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years. Listen to how she frames it on
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the Bitcoin Archive podcast. Well, it's up to 39 trillion
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now. It's going up by something like
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2 trillion a year. And the short answer is there's
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really no way out other than default.
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But a country doesn't default in its local currency almost ever.
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And so default happens through purchasing power.
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It basically is a debasement that happens.
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And I would say it's it's already been happening.
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I mean, I've really ever since COVID currency and bonds have
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underperformed virtually everything.
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And that's what happens during kind of financial repression,
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fiscal dominant scenarios. The, the biggest question I
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think is not how we get out of it, but can we get out of it in
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a stable way. Like can you default and debase
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in such a way that you do it and then you kind of stabilize
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afterward? Like, for example, in, in the
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1940s, major developed countries rapidly debase their currencies,
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but then when it was all kind of said and done, they, they then
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shifted toward austerity and then they kind of grew their way
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out of it. Combined with that devaluation,
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debasement, financial impression in a much messier, more
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polarized environment, you're, you're much less likely to do
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that. So instead of kind of, you know,
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that's in the 40s, they kind of RIP the bandit off, have a
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massive devaluation that shift toward austerity.
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Instead, we're more likely in a long kind of slow spiral, which
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is that it just kind of keeps debasing.
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It's never as bad as like the sensationalists will say or like
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rarely that bad. They're always think it's kind
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of, you know, two years away from blowing up entirely.
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And it just keeps not doing that.
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But then it also never really corrects itself and it takes
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years and potentially even decades.
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Like I, I think the current kind of fiscal spiral that the US is
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in is at least going to go into the twenty 30s.
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And from there, I mean, after about a decade, there's not much
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further you can see out because all sorts of crazy stuff can
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happen in the, in the course of a decade, geopolitically,
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militarily, non linear breakdowns and legal structures.
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But at at least from a kind of a, a, an economic or
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macroeconomic standpoint over the next 5-10 years, I think
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it's only going to keep spiraling.
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And ironically, I don't think it'll be much higher public debt
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to GDP in the US, It'll be much higher nominal debt, much higher
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nominal GDP and kind of a flat to mild the up debt to GDP.
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And so that that kind of those fiscal deficits don't just don't
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just mount into more and more debt to GDP.
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They instead mount in terms of increasing costs, kind of
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inflation that stays above the baseline.
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And you kind of get this, this K shaped economy that we're in
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where, you know, if you own assets and, and, or if you're on
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the receiving side of deficits, you're generally doing pretty
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well. Whereas if you're on the tight
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side of monetary policy and or you don't own a lot of assets,
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you're generally struggling. And I think that's unfortunately
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probably going to keep widening for years to come.
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A country doesn't default through its own currency, it
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defaults through purchasing power.
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The dollar in your pocket is what's defaulting, and it's been
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defaulting since COVID. Economists have a polite name
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for this play. They call it financial
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repression. The way it works, you cap rates
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below inflation, you force someone to keep holding the debt
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at a loss, and over the next few decades you quietly inflate it
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away. America ran this play once
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before. From 1945 to 1974, debt to GDP
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went from 106% all the way down to 22.
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It worked because 76,000,000 baby boomers were walking into
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the workforce, because America made half the planet's
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industrial output, because the world had to hold dollars and
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Bretton Woods made sure of that. Every one of those tailwinds is
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gone. So if you want to run the same
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play in 2026, you have to manufacture a new captive buyer
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of U.S. debt out of thin air. And last week, while everyone
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was watching the price, 2 senators released the final
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compromise text on the most important crypto bill of this
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cycle, and almost nobody read what it actually says.
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On the surface it bans yield on stable coins.
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The language says no rewards functionally equivalent to
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interest on bank deposit. Banks declared victory,
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headlines moved on. But if you read the second-half,
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it says actively based rewards for payments, remittances and
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lending are explicitly permitted, and those rewards can
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still be calculated on balance and duration.
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That's just interest with a different name.
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So why does this matter? Because Treasury Secretary Scott
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Besson has publicly named a $3.7 trillion stable coin issuance
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target. Without that yield carve out,
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dollar stable coins offer nothing a bank account in a
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developed market doesn't already offer.
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Which means the flywheel never spins up and Besson's target
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dies on the runway. With the carve out, every dollar
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stable coin in circulation has to be backed by short dated
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Treasuries. The more stable coin demand, the
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more T bill demand. The more T bill demand, the
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cheaper it gets to carry $39 trillion in debt.
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In short, they didn't compromise.
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They threaded a needle and the deficit is on the other side of
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that needle. But the legal infrastructure
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only matters if the demand is there.
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So who actually wants a dollar stable coin?
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Michael Saylor walked through this on Peter Mccormick's show
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last week. Well, I mean, you have the world
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reserve currency, the dollar, and probably with regard to
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that, you've got a steady 7% deep basement or depreciation
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against scarce desirable assets that just continues to grind.
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On some years it accelerates, some years it decelerates.
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Then you've got all of the second tier currencies pegged to
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the dollar. You know, if they're stable
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against the dollar, the pound, the euro, the yen, the Swiss
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franc, the D ram, etcetera. When they're ±20% against the
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dollar oscillating, they're not as strong as the dollar.
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They're probably debasing just a little bit faster.
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And the problem is they don't have the ability to create more
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of their own currency. So they, they tend to get into
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currency crises or debt crises more often than not.
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And then that results in lurching to and fro.
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And then you've got the third tier currencies and they're the
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ones that are losing 10% of their value against the dollar
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every year. And they probably run more like
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14% debasement rates. And then you've got the 4th tier
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currencies and those are the ones that are obviously
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collapsing against the dollar. And you know what happens,
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right? The the second tier countries,
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they just suffer from economic stagnation, bureaucratic malaise
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and economic stagnation. I would say in Europe, the UK,
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Japan, you could argue many, many countries, they look stable
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politically, but they all suffer from economic stagnation.
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And the third tier, everybody is struggling to simply keep their
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head above water and most are failing.
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And the fourth tier states are all just welfare states.
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They're just waiting for someone from the, you know, from the
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first world to go and give them something.
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If you live in Argentina, Egypt, Lebanon, Nigeria, Pakistan,
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Sailor just described your life. You don't need a regulator's
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permission to know the dollar holds its value better than your
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local Fiat. You just need a phone.
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That's the demand and the activity based rewards in the
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Clarity Act are designed to capture it.
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A Filipino remittance worker can earn a rebate on stable coins
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that no bank account in the world can match.
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No central bank can pay balance tide rewards without it looking
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like monetary policy. So no CBDC even competes with
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this dollar. Stable coins win the global
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retail layer by default. So that's the architecture.
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Now I want to step back because there's something bigger going
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on here. Kathy Wood walked into this
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exact insight back in 2015, guided by a man who had no skin
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in the Bitcoin game. And we wrote our first white
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paper on Bitcoin in collaboration with Art Laffer in
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2015. And we simply were asking the
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question, could Bitcoin serve the three rolls of money?
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So means of exchange, store of value, unit of account and art
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Laffer, I'm not sure if you know Laffer Curve, he's famous for
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that in the fiscal policy arena, but he's also a monetary
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scholar. His his mentor was Robert
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Mandel, who won a Nobel Prize for his monetary theory.
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And so we put the our thesis in front of art.
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And from an economic point of view, he helped us tremendously.
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And I have an economics background.
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So I began to understand Bitcoin in a profound way because he
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said to me at the time, you know, he said this is what I've
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been waiting for since since the US closed the gold window in
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1971. And I said, OK, Art, that sounds
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like a pretty big idea. How big could this idea be?
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And he said, well, how big is the US monetary base?
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And back then it was 4 1/2 trillion dollars.
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Today it's a little over 6 trillion.
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And Bitcoin was the equivalent, we called it network value at
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the time of $6 billion in market cap.
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Think about that 6 billion and he was saying trillions.
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So I personally invested right away.
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That was a smart move. Kathy, a supply side monetary
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economist with no Bitcoin tribe to belong to, looked at Bitcoin
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in 2015 and said this is what I've been waiting for since
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1971, since the US closed the gold window.
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So why does that date keep showing up?
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Because 1971 isn't just when Nixon broke the gold link.
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It's when one global monetary system died and a new one was
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born. And to understand the system
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being built right now, you have to understand the two that came
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before it. So Bretton Woods one came.
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From 1944 to 1971, the dollar was pegged to gold at $35.00 an
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ounce. Every other major currency was
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pegged to the dollar. The world held dollars because
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dollars were essentially gold. That worked until America
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printed more dollars than it had gold.
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The deficits piled up. Foreign central banks started
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showing up at the gold window asking for what they were
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promised. Nixon closed the window in
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August 1971 and ended Bretton Woods 1.
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Bretton Woods 2 was never officially negotiated.
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It just emerged Saudi Arabia agreed to price oil exclusively
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in dollars and recycle the proceeds into U.S.
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Treasuries. Other oil exporters followed.
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The petrodollar was born. Dollar reserve status no longer
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required gold backing. It required oil.
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And that worked for 50 years. But it's now fraying.
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Iran sells oil to China for yuan.
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India is buying Iranian oil in yuan.
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Ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz last month paid their
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tolls in Bitcoin. The petrodollar deal that ran
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the world from the 70s through the 20 tens is on life support.
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So if Bretton Woods 1 was the dollar on gold and Bretton Woods
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2 was the dollar on oil, what comes next?
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Bretton Woods 3 is the dollar on stable coins.
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It's not sovereign to sovereign reserve recycling anymore.
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It's atomized retail demand. Hundreds of millions of
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individual people in dozens of failing currency regimes
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choosing a dollar stable coin over their local Fiat because
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their local Fiat is theft. Each one of those wallets is
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backed by short dated treasuries.
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The old system needed Saudi Arabia.
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The new system needs everyone one phone at a time, and the
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Clarity Act is the legal infrastructure that makes it
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possible. Now here's the part the
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architects don't seem to realize they're building.
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David Marcus ran PayPal, then built Libra at Facebook.
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He now runs Bitcoin in stablecoin focused light Spark.
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Last week he announced Grid Global Accounts, which is dollar
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accounts running on Bitcoin's lightning rails that are Visa
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compatible in 100 countries. Listen to him close the loop.
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They need to consider that stablecoins on other chains are
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like Fiat payment networks. It's like why do I integrate
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with like SEPA in Europe and I'm fine with that and I don't
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integrate with Solana for stablecoins.
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Makes no sense. It was like an ideological
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mental trap. And, and so I'm like, no,
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they're actually totally right. And then we went full tilt.
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So with Grid, we went like really full tilt.
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Like we support all the chains and all the stable coins.
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And then we went even deeper with Grid global accounts
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because we made it compatible with all of the net, the
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networks. And so now what that does is it
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gives you an account and a platform that you want to use
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because you can actually make your money move to wherever you
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want it to move. And the accounts that is the
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most connected ends up being a Bitcoin account, right, because
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it's a spark wallet. And so that's how all roads
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actually go to Bitcoin is actually by leveraging the
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ability to offer an account that's both dollars and Bitcoin.
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And if you don't have the dollar, then you know Bitcoin is
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not as valuable. But like if you have dollar and
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Bitcoin then gradually you'll use more and more Bitcoin and if
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it lives on the same address then.
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So that's the reason that you think that stable coin
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proliferation will increase Bitcoin adoption just because
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just from almost proximity like they're in the same account and
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at some point people might start playing around with Bitcoin and
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seeing what it could do, learning about.
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It exactly so the the open network that moves like the TCP
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IP packets for money behind the scenes here is Bitcoin and so
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that's amazing. Like it's like it's a pretty
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profound thing that's happening right now.
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And, and, you know, not many people are actually really
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paying attention to that shift, but the fact that we're building
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on an open network that has that kind of reach right now is, is,
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I think, a profound turning point for Bitcoin.
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Stable coins on every chain are Fiat payment rails.
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That's the punchline. Bitcoin is the open settlement
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layer underneath. The most connected dollar
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account in the world ends up being a Bitcoin account by
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default. People hold dollars and Bitcoin
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on the same app. Gradually they touch Bitcoin,
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then more let that sink in, the architecture being built to
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extend the dollar's life route settlement through Bitcoin.
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The harder the architects push to scale stablecoin adoption,
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the more bitcoins network effects compound.
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They're paying with legislation, regulatory cover and political
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capital to build bitcoins distribution channel.
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And they don't seem to see it. But the plumbing leads here
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regardless. The Clarity Act is about to
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clear the committee. Polymarket has it at 62% odds of
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being signed into law in 2026, with markup expected next week.
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And here's what I've been chewing on.
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The yield language was the biggest sticking point on the
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bill. It's been holding the whole
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thing up for months. With it cleared, the bill is now
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on the path to the president's desk.
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And I think the signing of the Clarity Act is the catalyst.
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Fewer pricing in. Now, one of two things happens
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from here. Either the signing marks the
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start of the next leg up, and from where I sit that's the most
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likely outcome, or it gets front run and the rally starts a week
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or two before the signature actually lands.
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Either way, those months of stalling on this bill very
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likely fed into the price weakness we just lived through
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for the last six months. It sure looked like Tradfi
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stacking undercover, getting their products lined up before
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they sell stable coins to retail.
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So they didn't need the price to go up, they needed price to stay
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still long enough to position. And now that window is about to
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close. Money that holds its value is
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becoming structurally necessary, the system that doesn't is being
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kept alive by every trick available, and the only money
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that can be retired by decree is the money the US government just
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legislated a global distribution channel for.
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Do you think the architects of the Clarity Act actually
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understand they're building a Bitcoin on ramp or is this a
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happy accident? And where do you stand on cycle
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dead or mid cycle correction? Drop your thoughts in the
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comments, and if you're still here, thanks for watching all
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