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- 0:01Bitcoin is stuck in the 70s. Staying alive, staying alive.
- 0:07The biggest story on mainstream media is Iran called and Trump
- 0:11picked up. Hello.
- 0:12The war might be over, Hormuz might reopen, my gas prices
- 0:15might come down. But here's what they're not
- 0:16telling you why the war ended. The war ended because America
- 0:20can't afford it anymore. They're pretending they can.
- 0:22But come. 10 year Treasury yields from 42 basis points the
- 0:26week the strike started on $36 trillion of debt.
- 0:30Do that math in your head. And while the ceasefire was
- 0:32being negotiated, India paid Iran and Yuan to move an oil
- 0:35tanker through the Strait of Hormuz.
- 0:38Not dollars. You want the bypass lane for
- 0:40dollar free oil trade just got built.
- 0:43So which one is going parabolic first, Bitcoin or gas?
- 0:46Emotions. This is beyond Bitcoin.
- 0:49Let's go, but not too far because I don't think we can
- 0:52afford it. Bitcoin is holding in the 70s as
- 1:00of this recording and the narrative machine is fully in
- 1:02peace deal mode. Trump announced a deal, Iran
- 1:05came to the table, the Strait of Hormuz is reopening, and the
- 1:09financial press is doing what it has always done, covering the
- 1:12event, not the structure underneath the event.
- 1:15Today we're going deeper than the headline because the Iran
- 1:18ceasefire reveals 3 structural failures of Fiat money that
- 1:22Bitcoin was built to survive and they don't go away when Hormuz
- 1:26opens. First problem, the war.
- 1:28They can't stop borrowing to fund 42 basis points on $36
- 1:32trillion in debt is roughly $413 million a day in extra interest
- 1:38every day. Wait wait wait, that's an
- 1:41interest alone and I have to pay for a war on top of that.
- 1:44Oh wow. OK.
- 1:46Do you have like a lower tier war subscription?
- 1:48You know like a like a hobbyist level?
- 1:51Something around $19.00 a month. Much more my budget.
- 1:54Second problem, dollar weaponization that backfires.
- 1:57While Trump was issuing ultimatums, India quietly paid
- 2:01Iran's straight of Hormuz toll in yuan.
- 2:03By the way, the word quietly is the number one indicator that AI
- 2:07wrote your script. Nations paying for oil in yuan
- 2:10get safe passage. The Petro yuan infrastructure
- 2:13got built during the war to defend the Petro dollar, which
- 2:16is weird. That's the part that nobody's
- 2:18covering. And 3rd, a quickly moving
- 2:20collapse of purchasing power. Gas prices that seem to
- 2:22fluctuate with the change of weather.
- 2:24Bitcoin dropped 2 1/2% through all of it and the S&P 500 hit
- 2:282026 lows, which I know we're still in March so it doesn't
- 2:31mean much, but 240,000 traders got liquidated.
- 2:35Morgan Stanley, however, just filed for its own spot Bitcoin
- 2:39ETF. That's the first major U.S. bank
- 2:41in history. The institutions aren't trading
- 2:43the war, they're pricing the fiscal reality the war just made
- 2:46impossible to ignore. Bitcoin is the answer to all
- 2:49three of these problems. Let's start with the math, our
- 2:51new superhero of this era. Because math is what stopped
- 2:54this war. Not diplomacy, not strategy.
- 2:57Formerly micro strategy math. the US has $36 trillion in debt.
- 3:02That number is not abstract. That number has a monthly
- 3:05payment. And when you go to war in a
- 3:07region that controls 20% of global oil supply and the bond
- 3:11markets decide it doesn't like that, the interest rate on your
- 3:14debt goes up. In the week the Iran strike
- 3:17started, the 10 year Treasury yield moved 42 basis points from
- 3:22roughly 3.97% to 4.39% in one week.
- 3:27Now 42 basis points on $36 trillion.
- 3:30That's approximately $413 million in extra interest per
- 3:35day, not total extra above what the government was already
- 3:40paying before the war started. And it wasn't just the bond
- 3:42market. Oil went to $90.00 a barrel.
- 3:45Airlines were pricing in $175 crude.
- 3:49Scenario. US farmers, Trump's most loyal
- 3:52constituency, were getting crushed before planting season
- 3:55and fertilizer prices were up, diesel prices were up, margins
- 3:59gone. Trump literally predicted oil
- 4:01would go higher. How could he have known that?
- 4:03Perhaps he can read the future. There's a great series of quotes
- 4:07circulating this week where Trump says at one point I think
- 4:10we've won. Three hours later we were
- 4:13winding down. One hour after that, he doesn't
- 4:15want a ceasefire. And then a deal happened.
- 4:18That's five dimensional chest of play if I've ever seen it.
- 4:20That's the president who has two audiences, the domestic base and
- 4:24the bond market. And only one of them got what it
- 4:26wanted. Well done, Trump.
- 4:27So who won bond market? James Bond market.
- 4:30And here's the part that should really bother you.
- 4:32This was Iran, a regional power, a country with its air defenses
- 4:36reportedly degraded in the first week, a country with half its
- 4:39oil revenue already sanctioned and the bond market still pooped
- 4:43its pants. What happens the next time?
- 4:45What happens when it's a bigger country, a bigger war, a longer
- 4:48poop? The answer is you can't afford
- 4:51it. Not because the military isn't
- 4:53powerful enough. Well, no.
- 4:54It's because the military isn't powerful enough.
- 4:56Because you can't pay them. Because the interest on your
- 4:59debt means that you have to print more, which devalues the
- 5:02units you're printing for your military to operate in the first
- 5:05place. So tomorrow morning, sometime
- 5:10their time, we were expected to blow up their largest electric
- 5:15generating plants that cost over $10 billion to build.
- 5:20It's a very good one. There was no dearth of money and
- 5:24one shot, it's gone, it collapses.
- 5:29Why would they want that? So they called, I didn't call,
- 5:33they called. They want to make a deal and we
- 5:36are very willing to make a deal. It's got to be a good deal and
- 5:39it's got to be no more wars, no more nuclear weapons.
- 5:42They're not going to have nuclear weapons anymore.
- 5:44They're agreeing to that. Any of that stuff, there's no
- 5:48deal. They called it, I didn't.
- 5:51Regardless of the truth in that statement, it's always funny to
- 5:53hear Trump's boss language, right?
- 5:55I would never call only losers call losers.
- 6:00Anyway, that was the closing line of the negotiation, and to
- 6:03be fair, it's a good line. It's also the only acceptable
- 6:06framing in the current political environment.
- 6:08Nobody in Washington can say the bond market ended the war.
- 6:11That's not a press release that goes up.
- 6:13But the oil price analyst at Bloomberg said it, The Farm
- 6:16Bureau said it, The interest rate math says it.
- 6:19The only people not saying it are the ones whose job it is to
- 6:22maintain the narrative that American military power is
- 6:25unconditional. It isn't.
- 6:26It has a price. And this is where it gets
- 6:28interesting. Right now the price is $413
- 6:32million a day in extra interest. I told you it gets interesting.
- 6:36Isn't it great that Bitcoin lives outside of that system?
- 6:39Either let inflation run hot or let the sovereign bond market
- 6:43potentially default and run into liquidity problems.
- 6:46That that's really their their two main choices.
- 6:48Like I mentioned the other, the third choice, which only works
- 6:50temporarily, is they could ease regulations on banks so they
- 6:54don't have to count treasuries and cash against their capital,
- 6:57which basically allows banks to lever up and buy more Treasuries
- 7:01or perform more repo lending. So they have a handful of levers
- 7:04they can pull that either look like QE or shadow QE.
- 7:08But you know, at the end of the day, they never let the bond
- 7:10market just go illiquid, and so they always air on more
- 7:14inflation even when it's above target.
- 7:16You see where this is going, right?
- 7:17the United States government has two options.
- 7:20Option A Let inflation run hot, which means the dollar in your
- 7:24pocket is worth less every year and the real cost of debt gets
- 7:27inflated away. Option B let the bond market
- 7:30break, which means liquidity crisis, potential default
- 7:34financial system stress. Those are your two options.
- 7:37That's the menu. Can I get onions on the side of
- 7:41that please? There is no option C where they
- 7:43cut spending, pay down the debt, run a surplus, and stabilize the
- 7:46currency. That option requires a political
- 7:49consensus that doesn't exist and probably can't exist with this
- 7:53much debt outstanding. Every war they fight makes the
- 7:56options worse. Every dollar of deficit spending
- 7:59makes option A more likely. Every basis point of yield
- 8:02increase makes option B more likely.
- 8:05And sitting outside of both of those options is Bitcoin.
- 8:08Fixed supply, no central bank, no interest meter.
- 8:12You can have your onions on the side.
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- 9:25The ceasefire headlines buried the actual story.
- 9:28Let me give it to you here. India paid Iran's strader from
- 9:30use transit fee for an oil tanker to pass through it in
- 9:35yuan. And here's the key sentence from
- 9:38the reporting this week. Nations paying for oil in yuan
- 9:41are granted safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz, a toll
- 9:45road for dollar free oil trade built while Trump was
- 9:48threatening to close Hormuz. Think about what actually
- 9:51happened here. the United States went to war in part to maintain
- 9:55dollar hegemony over global oil markets.
- 9:57That is the core logic of the petrodollar system that Nixon
- 10:00and Kissinger built in 1973. You price oil in dollars.
- 10:05The world needs dollars to buy oil.
- 10:07The world holds dollars in reserve.
- 10:09The dollar stays the world's reserve currency. the US can run
- 10:12deficits. The cycle continues, and
- 10:15everyone is happy. But what if Iran, during the
- 10:17war, built the bypass lane and India used it and it happened
- 10:22this week? That did happen this week.
- 10:25Yeah. What if it did?
- 10:26It did, Yeah. But what if Then we would be
- 10:30where we are? What if we were where we are?
- 10:33Stop it, stop it, please stop it.
- 10:36Just stop it. A tweet from radar hits that's
- 10:38been circulating says Donald Trump has achieved the Petro
- 10:41Yuan and undermined US hegemony through the petrodollar.
- 10:45That's a little spicy, but it's not wrong.
- 10:46The war to defend the petrodollar created the
- 10:49infrastructure for the Petro Yuan.
- 10:51That's the outcome. The peace deal reopens the
- 10:53Strait of Hormuz, yes, but it does not close the Yuan toll
- 10:57road. It does not unbuild the
- 10:59settlement infrastructure. It does not make India go back
- 11:02to paying in dollars. The bypass exists.
- 11:05It worked, countries noticed. Now, to be precise, the Petro
- 11:08yuan is not being replaced by the Petro dollar tomorrow or
- 11:12next year or probably in this decade.
- 11:14The dollar is still 70% of global foreign exchange
- 11:17reserves. The treasury market is still the
- 11:19deepest, most liquid debt market in the world.
- 11:22The plumbing of global trade still runs mostly through the
- 11:25SWIFT and dollar denominated systems.
- 11:28Mostly. But here's what changed this
- 11:30week. Another data point that got
- 11:31added to the trend line. Saudi Arabia, Russia, China,
- 11:35India, the bricks, all of them have been building alternative
- 11:39settlement infrastructure for years.
- 11:41Have you seen that one episode of sanctions?
- 11:43The one where Russia gets sanctioned in 2022?
- 11:45Classic. Or how about the the whole
- 11:47season where Iran gets sanctioned for decades?
- 11:50Man, I love that show. Every war that threatens the
- 11:53trade routes that run through dollar hegemony accelerate it.
- 11:57Isn't that like an anti fragile system?
- 12:00I guess inversely kind of. The pace is slow, but it's not
- 12:03reversing the direction is set. So shifting back to neutral
- 12:07reserve assets can be a painful transition, but I think it's
- 12:11it's, you know, it's a more natural state of affairs.
- 12:14And so I think a lot of these moves makes a lot of sense.
- 12:16So, so I mean, you know, sovereigns are preparing for a
- 12:19world where the US remains the core of the system, but the
- 12:22margin of safety is kind of no longer trusted to the same
- 12:24degree. Yeah, I would describe it at
- 12:27the, it's, it's moving to a world where the US is the the
- 12:29biggest individual entity in in currency reserves, but it is not
- 12:35the only game in town. So right now the two the, you
- 12:38know, obviously the two biggest economic powers of the US and
- 12:40China, China's got a much stronger industrial base. the US
- 12:43has a much stronger kind of capital markets and global
- 12:46reserve base. But around the margins, there's
- 12:49been a shift, you know, a tiny bit into into, you know, Chinese
- 12:52bonds, but primarily into these neutral reserve assets like
- 12:55gold. And so basically you have gold
- 12:58as a major reserve asset, you have treasures as a major
- 13:00reserve asset around the margins, you have other major
- 13:03developed fiats as reserve assets.
- 13:05And that's just in general, it's a more balanced system than than
- 13:08basically having, you know, 80% of all assets, you know, stuffed
- 13:11into U.S. markets. Here's the way I think about
- 13:13this. For 50 years, the petrodollar
- 13:15system worked because it served everyone.
- 13:17Oil exporters got stable dollar revenues, the US got a permanent
- 13:21demand for its currency and its debt, and the world got a
- 13:25pricing mechanism for global energy that was liquid,
- 13:27predictable, and backed by the biggest military in human
- 13:31history. The military is still the
- 13:32biggest, but the debt is now $36 trillion.
- 13:36The rate on the debt is 4.39%. That's like an aircraft carrier
- 13:41every month. What happens when the cost of
- 13:43maintaining the system exceeds the benefit of being in that
- 13:46system? Well, you get India paying and
- 13:48you want. You get countries quietly
- 13:50diversifying reserves. Quietly you get gold at 4500 an
- 13:54ounce while the dollar slowly melts.
- 13:58That's the transition Lynn Alden just described a shift of
- 14:01neutral reserve assets. That's what this week's oil
- 14:04tanker was about. 1 transaction, one data .1 More reason for
- 14:08every country outside of the dollar system to keep building
- 14:11the bypass and sitting there as the only global neutral, non
- 14:15sovereign fixed supply asset in existence is of course Bitcoin.
- 14:21So I'm going to pause here for a second.
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- 14:56Now let's talk about what actually happened this week in
- 14:58markets because the narrative is Bitcoin sold off during the war.
- 15:01And that's true -2.4%. But here's what else happened.
- 15:05The S&P 500 hit 2026 lows. Gold ETF shed 30 tons in a week
- 15:12were raising every gain from 2026200 and 40,000 traders got
- 15:16liquidated across crypto markets.
- 15:18The safe haven assets were not having a safe haven week.
- 15:22During all this, Bitcoin lost 2.4%, which is like a normal
- 15:26Thursday for Bitcoin. And now I know what you're
- 15:28thinking. That's not exactly inspiring.
- 15:30And you're right that it's not the Bitcoin goes up and
- 15:33everything goes down thesis. But let's contextualize what
- 15:36we're talking about here. This was a geopolitical shock, a
- 15:39real shooting war in the Middle East, the biggest oil choke
- 15:42point in the world under threat, Treasury yield spiking, the S&P
- 15:46in a free fall, and Bitcoin held in the 70s.
- 15:51Let's talk about gold for a second because gold is
- 15:54interesting again. Gold hit $4000 an ounce earlier
- 15:57this year. It's been the trade of 2025 and
- 15:592026. Central banks are buying, retail
- 16:03is buying. Everyone loves gold, especially
- 16:04Costco members. And then gold ETFs shed 30 tons
- 16:08this week. 30 tons gone in one week.
- 16:11Every 2026 gain wiped out. What does that tell you?
- 16:14It tells you that when institutional investors, pension
- 16:17funds, hedge funds, the folks managing other people's money
- 16:21need to raise cash in a stress event, they sell what's liquid,
- 16:25They sell what they can sell. And gold ETFs are liquid.
- 16:28Bitcoin is also liquid. And Bitcoin dropped 2.4%.
- 16:32Gold ETFs lost more than that in underlying NAB terms while also
- 16:36suffering massive outflows. Now I'm not here to argue that
- 16:41Bitcoin is a better short term hedge than gold.
- 16:44Well, I literally am here for that.
- 16:46I mean, we're not called simply gold now are we?
- 16:50But I'm also here to point out that the story Bitcoin is just a
- 16:53risk asset that gets dumped in a crisis is not what the data says
- 16:57this week. The Bitcoin options market is
- 17:00the most defensively positioned it's been since June 2021.
- 17:04Vanek's Chain Check report this week shows the put call open
- 17:08interest ratio averaged .77, its highest in nearly five years.
- 17:12Put premiums elevated, volatility skewed defensive.
- 17:16Everyone is hedged. I understand nothing.
- 17:18The last time the options market was this defensive?
- 17:20June 2021 Bitcoin was at $30,000.
- 17:24Six months later it was at $69,000 and that's over double
- 17:28the price for all you math Wizards.
- 17:30Now, we all know that past performance doesn't equal
- 17:33something something something I know.
- 17:36But here's the question worth sitting with.
- 17:38Who is buying those puts? Who is that defensively
- 17:41positioned? It's not retail.
- 17:43Retail's fear and greed is in extreme fear right now as of
- 17:46this recording and not paying premium for downside protection.
- 17:49It's institutions and the institutions don't pay for puts.
- 17:52They don't have corresponding long positions to protect.
- 17:55The options market right now is telling you someone has a lot of
- 17:58Bitcoin and they're paying to keep it.
- 18:00Stanley. Morgan Stanley just filed for a
- 18:01spot Bitcoin ETF, ticker MSBT Fidelity as their custodian.
- 18:06BNY Mellon handling cash custody, seed capital $1
- 18:10million. This is the first major U.S.
- 18:12bank to file for its own spot Bitcoin ETF.
- 18:15Not a brokerage product, not third party access their own
- 18:18fund with their name on it. You know what Morgan Stanley is
- 18:21not a Bitcoin maximalist. You know what Morgan Stanley is
- 18:24A fiduciary institution that manages hundreds of billions of
- 18:28dollars in client assets and has spent the last three years
- 18:32watching BlackRock and Fidelity print money off Bitcoin ETF fees
- 18:36and eat their lunch. This is not ideological.
- 18:38This is competitive pressure and competitive pressure from Morgan
- 18:41Stanley is a different signal than AVC Fund tweeting about its
- 18:44digital gold and then their strategy.
- 18:47Michael Saylor's company bought 89,000 Bitcoin in Q1 alone, $6.2
- 18:52billion worth of Bitcoin in one quarter.
- 18:55While everything else was selling off, while the war was
- 18:58happening, while yields were spiking.
- 19:00Strategy just bought that war 89,000 Bitcoin at a time when
- 19:04the fear and Greed index was an extreme fear, at a time when
- 19:08240,000 traders were getting liquidated, at a time when the
- 19:12macro environment was objectively terrifying.
- 19:15And sailors quote this week, in case you missed it, in seven
- 19:18years Bitcoin will crash from $1 million to $750,000 and people
- 19:23will say Bitcoin is dead then too.
- 19:24The man has no range above target.
- 19:27Debasement largely driven by that fiscal excess.
- 19:32And so it's, it's more stagflationary rather than kind
- 19:34of the disinflation that we normally see during, you know,
- 19:37kind of weaker economic periods. Yeah.
- 19:39And you know. Lynn, when we talk about the,
- 19:41the bearish side of things, I always get in trouble because
- 19:43the bulls push me back on this. And they say, you know, they
- 19:46argue that the wealth effect is real, that the top 10% own the
- 19:49bulk of the assets and, and, and they continue to spend.
- 19:52I mean, even if manufacturer is, is, is weaker, they'd say that
- 19:56the strength and service keeps the US out of recession.
- 19:59Does that argument carry weight? To some extent I mean that.
- 20:02That's why I'm not too bearish. Here's the macro.
- 20:05Picture Lynn Alden is describing, and this is the
- 20:08thing that ties all three topics together.
- 20:10We're not in a normal cycle. We're not in a recession.
- 20:13Fed cuts, recovery, growth, repeat.
- 20:16That playbook assumes the central bank has room to cut
- 20:19rates. Reflate the economy and
- 20:21everything normalizes. It doesn't have that room
- 20:23anymore. When the Fed cuts rates now, it
- 20:26risks re accelerating inflation that's still above target.
- 20:29When the Fed holds rates, it accelerates the debt servicing
- 20:32crisis on the $36 trillion. When the government spends to
- 20:36simulate, it adds to that debt. When it cuts to reduce the debt,
- 20:40it risks recession. Every lever pulls in the wrong
- 20:44direction simultaneously. That's precisely what Lynn Alden
- 20:48means by stagflation. That's the above target
- 20:50debasement driven by fiscal excess.
- 20:53That's the environment where you don't just print your way to
- 20:55normal. The old options cut, print,
- 20:58stimulate. They create new problems faster
- 21:00than they solve the old ones. And in that environment, what's
- 21:04the one asset that has a fixed supply, no central bank, no
- 21:07government lever, and no interest meter?
- 21:10You know the answer. You watch this show.
- 21:12I'm not going to insult you by saying it's Bitcoin.
- 21:14Duh, because it's Bitcoin. Yeah, let me land this one.
- 21:18Like the Fed in a macroeconomic crisis, softer than the cheese
- 21:21grater, moving one cycle per quarter, whatever that means.
- 21:24The Iran ceasefire is real news. The Hormuz reopening is real
- 21:28news. Oil prices coming down is real
- 21:31news. And none of it changes the
- 21:33structural picture. 42 basis points, $413 million a day.
- 21:39In extra interest, that's an aircraft carrier month.
- 21:41If I mention that, that's what ended the war, not strategy.
- 21:46Meth another clue the dollar is dying.
- 21:49India in the Strait of Hormuz with the Candlestick.
- 21:52I mean the yuan, the Petro yuan bypass infrastructure is
- 21:55operational. The peace deal doesn't close it.
- 21:58Morgan Stanley 89,000 Bitcoin options market institutions are
- 22:03not trading the war, they are pricing the fiscal reality.
- 22:06The war just made impossible to ignore.
- 22:08Bitcoin may not be up this week, but Bitcoin is up forever.
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- 22:54Here's the thing that nobody wants to say out loud in the
- 22:56financial press. the United States went to war to defend the
- 23:00dollar's role in global oil markets.
- 23:02Yes, the war lasted until the bond market made it too
- 23:05expensive. While it was happening, a
- 23:08country that is not aligned with the United States used the
- 23:11opportunity to run a Yuan oil settlement transaction through a
- 23:15choke point. America was trying to close war
- 23:18to defend the dollar, accelerated the dollar's
- 23:20decline. Oh the irony man.
- 23:24When your money is backed by political power, rather than fix
- 23:27supply, every political decision effects its value.
- 23:30Every war, every deficit, every interest rate change, every
- 23:34sanctions regime. You are not outside that system.
- 23:38Your savings are inside of it. Your pension is inside of it.
- 23:42Your government is making decisions with it that you did
- 23:44not vote for and you cannot out opt out of.
- 23:47Except you can buy Bitcoin. Not because Bitcoin fixes all of
- 23:51this and it does not because Satoshi is going to swoop in and
- 23:54dissolve the Fed and he will. Because while all of this is
- 23:58happening, there's an asset with a fixed supply, no central bank,
- 24:02no political lever, and no interest meter.
- 24:05It doesn't care about Hormuz, it doesn't care about the yuan.
- 24:09It doesn't care about the $36 trillion of debt.
- 24:12It just exists outside of all of it waiting.
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