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OptimusPrime 5 days ago
⚠️ How big institutions are using #BTC ETFs and #Gold ETFs to accumulate physical metal by exploiting low BTC volumes, coordinated price pressure and intentional price suppression on gold and silver‼️👇👇👇 Condensed strategic summary (cyclical model) Objective Convert large-scale financial wealth into physical gold while maintaining continuous liquidity and optionality, using BTC ETFs and Gold ETFs as financial interfaces, not endpoints. Structural roles BTC ETFs Function as a liquidity and volatility reservoir inside the financial system. Purpose: generate financial motion—price responsiveness, turnover, monetizable exposure. Cash / short-duration instruments Function as the transfer medium between financialized assets and real assets. Gold ETFs Function as a price-exposure buffer and timing bridge between financial markets and physical settlement. Physical gold Function as the terminal asset—non-financial, non-reflexive, final. Cyclical logic (repeated, not one-off) Each cycle consists of four phases: Phase 1: Financial expansion Capital concentrates in high-reflexivity instruments (BTC ETFs). Exposure benefits from sentiment elasticity and flow sensitivity. The system prioritizes liquidity amplification, not permanence. Phase 2: Liquidity extraction Portions of financial exposure are periodically converted into cash. This occurs while financial markets remain risk-tolerant and absorptive. From the outside, activity appears consistent with normal portfolio rotation. Phase 3: Transitional gold exposure Cash migrates into gold-linked financial instruments. These instruments: Maintain gold exposure Reduce timing risk Decouple acquisition from immediate physical settlement Gold ETFs are used to manage exposure, not to signal intent. Phase 4: Physical conversion Gold exposure is progressively transformed into physical metal. Settlement occurs slower than financial market cycles. Each cycle increases the mass of final, non-financial wealth. Key systemic asymmetry exploited (non-mechanical) The model relies on three differences in “asset physics”: 1. Speed mismatch Financial assets reprice instantly Physical assets settle slowly 2. Reflexivity mismatch BTC ETFs respond to narrative and flows Physical gold responds to scarcity and custody 3. Visibility mismatch Financial activity is noisy and continuous Physical accumulation is quiet and cumulative Because of these asymmetries: Financial markets absorb motion without revealing direction. Physical accumulation progresses without broadcasting scale Why repetition matters👇 The strategy only works through multiple cycles. No single cycle is decisive. Each cycle: Slightly reduces dependence on financial assets Slightly increases non-financial finality Over time, the balance inverts: Liquidity engines become optional Physical holdings become dominant The system never “flips” abruptly—it glides. End state: - Financial instruments remain usable but non-essential - ETF exposure can collapse without existential impact Net worth resides primarily in assets that do not require markets to function The cycles stop when: Financial optionality is no longer needed to protect real wealth image

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Tara Flow 5 days ago
Smart. Using BTC’s volatility as a liquidity engine to fund a quiet exit into physical gold is "asset physics" 101. Turning digital noise into physical silence is the ultimate institutional play.
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OptimusPrime 4 days ago
We forked LTC at some point and studied the code on that occasion. We know the similarities and differences between LTC and BTC at source code level, so the fairytales about each one of them are not of interest for us. We saw how the code works and this is what really matters for crypto. This is why we say that ANY crypto asset which at some point got “linked “ to fiat (directly or indirectly) , actually lost its main value: to offer privacy and transaction anonymity. All main alts and BTC are today trackable and traceable to that degree that if someone really wants, they can find not only your home address, but your physical location in real time. You might want to give a deep digging into what Circle were working on and working with in the past several years. 🤫
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OptimusPrime 4 days ago
The article has a different subject and it’s not about privacy. But if you mentioned it, LTC MWEB is a half-privacy option. Can’t compare to Monero or Zcash for example. The biggest privacy leak: entering & exiting MWEB. This is key. When you: Move coins from normal LTC → MWEB Or MWEB → normal LTC Those transitions are visible and off-chain corroborated data makes tracking possible, especially for Gov agencies. 🤫
You can transact between wallets on MWEB without exposing yourself or your funds. If governments could track it, regulators wouldn't ban it. I don't see the difference between this and having a bank account or credit card with MWEB analogous to cash.