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The misallocation of capital enabled by unfettered money printing is a crime against humanity. That is not hyperbole. It is the central thesis of one of the most important books on money ever written. And it is the reason Bitcoin exists. Fix the money, fix
Every Bitcoin bear market cycle low tells the same story: the floor keeps rising. In 2015: $152. In 2019: $3,200. In 2022: $15,500. Today: panic at $60,000. Each cycle's devastating crash ends higher than the previous cycle's euphoric top.
Chris Martenson walks through oil tank bottoms, the 1974 State Department cable that proves gold futures were designed to kill physical demand, and why the 1970s double-hump inflation chart is tracking almost perfectly toward 15–20% in the next 18–24 months.
The petrodollar forced the world to hold dollars to buy oil. It's visibly fraying now. Here's how it actually works, why it's lasted 50 years, where it's cracking, and why a BRICS bloc currency would be worse, not the fix.
Many people have lost sight of why Bitcoin matters. We need 100 million humble sat stackers - individuals saving 0-00 per paycheck in bitcoin, building real, sustainable demand through self-custody and sound money principles.
SemiAnalysis coined 'Dark Output': real AI economic value that GDP cannot see. $1.5T in exposed labor. Junior workers vanishing from data while wages rise. The incoming Fed Chair admits the instruments are broken.
Gemini 3 and Claude Opus 4.5 were trained on Google TPUs, not NVIDIA. Anthropic building 1+ GW of TPU capacity. Meta wants in. More competition means faster, cheaper AI for everyone.
Visser frames AI as a $90T buildout, not a bubble. 97% of returns from AI sectors. His scarcity portfolio: silver, copper, Bitcoin. Plus Cube, BIP324, Hormuz mines.
Asian LNG surged 97%. Refineries cut 6M bbl/day. The IEA calls Hormuz the greatest threat to global energy security in history. Two central banks are hiking into it.
Hezbollah's $300 FPV drones are destroying Israeli tanks and air defenses. Israel approved $700M to counter the threat. Russia plans 7 million this year. Plus: Vista's private credit fund gated by one whale, and open-source AI hits frontier parity.
At bitcoin++ Vienna, Rene Pickhardt argued Lightning and Ark are complementary layers, not competitors. Plus peak apathy on-chain, NYC property seizure plans, and a Las Vegas biolab walks free.
A viral video shows Canadian police involuntarily committing a man under the Mental Health Act with no formal evaluation. From Canada's pre-crime speech laws to the UK's 292 Online Safety Act prosecutions, Western democracies are building control infrastructure at an accelerating pace.
The American Reserve Modernization Act would authorize the Treasury to buy 200K BTC/year for 5 years, funded by revaluing gold certificates from $42.22 to market price. Plus: Nvidia posts $81.6B quarter, OpenAI targets $1T IPO, and BofA says the Fed hike is closer than you think.
AI data centers aren't raising your electricity bill. State policy is. Bitcoin miners spent a decade learning community lessons AI companies need now. Plus: Turkey dumps $14B in Treasuries, Sphere3D-Cathedra merger, GitHub breach.