My hobby is kinda fishy - class of 2017
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JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Ripple officially receives full US regulatory approval to operate as a national trust bank.
One ounce of gold now buys roughly 35 barrels of Brent.
Oil is outrunning gold. Energy shock first, monetary response later? 👀
Gold under $4,000, 15 percent off the August peak.
Retail is panic selling. Central banks keep stacking, and moving reserves away from New York.
Same metal, very different time horizons 🥇
Everyone asks "if everything is falling, where's the money going?"
Into cash paying 5%.
Real question: what happens when the Fed can't keep paying 5% on $40T of debt?
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🚨 Pentagon Just Admitted Bitcoin is a U.S. Military Power-Projection Weapon Against China
In a House Armed Services Committee hearing, Rep. Lance Gooden pressed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on whether Bitcoin can serve as a strategic tool for national power.
Hegseth’s reply was blunt: “Yes and yes.”
He confirmed Bitcoin provides real strategic leverage over China and other adversaries… and revealed the Pentagon is already running classified initiatives both to enable and to counter the technology.
It lines up with earlier military experiments testing Bitcoin nodes for hardened, censorship-resistant communications and cybersecurity, plus the 2025 executive order that created a U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.
Interestingly, CIA Casually admitted that Bitcoin Is Used As A Surveillance Tool: “Bitcoin isn’t truly anonymous… it’s a TOOL we use for intel gathering.”
Your money isn't buying less because things got more expensive. It's buying less because your money got cheaper. Once you see it, you can't unsee it 🤷♂️
Saturday poll. Where would you rather park $10k for the next 5 years?
0%Gold
33%Silver
67%Bitcoin
0%Cash in the bank
3 votes • Final resultsMe in 2017: "I'll take profits at the top."
Me in 2021: "I'll take profits at the top."
Me in 2026: still holding, still "early", still explaining to my family why we're not rich yet. 🐟
Serious question: if the US prints its way out of the debt, what happens to anything priced in dollars? Synthetic gold doesn't change that math. Panic sellers near the lows never learn.
My view on gold and silver:
Short term: more downside, weak hands still selling.
Long term: much higher.
Why: the US can't pay its debt, it can only inflate it away. Every dollar printed makes real assets cost more dollars.
Synthetic gold is noise.
"Synthetic gold" headlines near the lows. Classic. Scare retail into selling, then the real buyers step in. Gold and silver can go lower first. Long term, they print, you pay. Metal wins.
Oil near $115 and 10y at 5%. Higher oil means higher rates for longer, and that is what hits tech, gold and crypto at the same time. This isn't a gold story or a BTC story. It's a liquidity story.
So far so good. People getting bullish at resistance. To me this is just the wave B (went quicker than first expected, but here we are). #Oil about to reverse to the downside very soon imo.
Gold lost $4,000 and silver sits near $54. When tech gets margin called, everything liquid gets sold, even the "safe haven". The real test comes after the forced selling is done.
