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1 year markets summary: Stocks and bonds - ➡️ FLAT Bitcoin and gold ⬆️ UP 25% or more MSTR ⬆️ UP over 70% Zoom out

Cynical take. BlackRock says Bitcoin could become the reserve currency. Why? New young customers. “More than half of demand for our Bitcoin ETP has been from retail investors, and 3/4 of those investors had never owned an iShares product before.” https://www.blackrock.com/corporate/literature/presentation/larry-fink-annual-chairmans-letter.pdf

“Tariffs are a tool for negotiating leverage as much as for revenue and fairness. Tariffs will likely precede any shift to soft dollar policy that requires cooperation from trade partners” - Stephen Miran, Nov 2024 https://www.hudsonbaycapital.com/documents/FG/hudsonbay/research/638199_A_Users_Guide_to_Restructuring_the_Global_Trading_System.pdf

Why the UK’s financial asset posture is anachronistic and naive. My latest for @Bitcoin Policy UK

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The UK’s financial asset posture looks anachronistic and naïve

“Europeans move towards destroying their own capital markets” Why else would you incentivise the world to divest from your bonds, equities and currencies & invest in Bitcoin and gold instead? It’s myopic.

Note how the UK government leads its inflation reports with its primary measure (3.9%), but the media always focuses on a (lower) secondary measure (3.0%). Spin upon spin.

https://archive.is/2025.02.09-052953/https://www.ft.com/content/cb9511a5-5df7-4ba7-974a-2f00d9d2128c

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The FT getting itself into a bit of a muddle with its lead article this morning. It ‘fears’ that investors want to fall for Trump’s shitcoin scams, but are instead falling for copycat shitcoin scams passing themselves off as Trump shitcoin scams. Oh dear.

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Trump’s digital financial technology executive order is just politics as usual. In theory, the government makes decisions in the people’s best interests. In practice, the government makes decisions in big business’s best interest. That’s why the government promotes garbage food, harmful drugs which don’t work, constant warfare, etc. The centralised shitcoin industry was a huge donor to the Trump campaign. As a result, centralised shitcoins are likely to be promoted by the government. It’s just the way politics work. Trump even established himself as shitcoiner-in-chief before assuming office. Bitcoin may benefit by being included in any US initiatives or reserves. But Bitcoin will suffer because officialdom will legitimise centralised shitcoins.

GM https://archive.is/2025.01.21-051858/https://www.ft.com/content/deabeaac-db7c-46fe-a037-a75698a7e982

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Some very good points here, particularly relating to mining centralisation. View quoted note →

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Establishment media and regime academia are preparing the ground to blame Bitcoin for the inevitable future fiat and tradfi crises.