I gave you the breakout on Gold and Silver before the pump.
I also gave you the macro top on Gold and Silver.
Here is the receipt. ๐งพ ๐ค
Seems like the market is beginning to go risk-on. However it might take a while. Macro moves can take months.
Time to look at small caps
all it takes is ONE big event before people realize how important privacy is
we haven't seen that event YET, but once a government tells a centralized AI company "hand over the data", things will POP
the whole premise of base:0xacfe6019ed1a7dc6f7b508c02d1b04ec88cc21bf; whatever you do with their model stays private
https://t.co/ybknmEkAPI
So do I get this right
>Saylor buys BTC
>Issues STRC
>Buys more BTC with proceeds as market goes up
>Average buy price of infinity
>Eventually market goes down
>STRC depegs
>Saylor sells BTC below his average to repeg STRC
>Market moves even lower below his average
>Sells even more BTC to repay STRC
>Eventually market recovers
>Saylor issues more STRC
>Buys now more expensive BTC
>Repeat
I'm a duck but even to me this sounds very retarded
If I understand this correctly it's the worst ponzi I've ever seen
A man working as a welder at SpaceX for $28 an hour has just become a millionaire.
Juan Hernandez, who came from Mexico, welded rockets for SpaceX at $28 an hour.
SpaceX gave him $10,000 in stock when he went full time in 2015, and he bought more with every paycheck for 10 years.
$SPCX is now trading at $167, making his shares worth over $1 million.
As everyone watches the SpaceX IPO today, its worth remembering this advice from Buffett
"The idea that a newly issued security (IPO)โbrought to market at a time of the seller's choosing and surrounded by massive hypeโis the single best bargain among thousands of global businesses is absolute nonsense.
When an offering carries a ridiculous 7% commission just to incentivize salespeople, it simply cannot be the most attractive investment available.
While people easily get caught up in the excitement of a new launch, look at the reality: you have thousands of existing public companies whose prices are set by a natural auction market, free from aggressive promotion or hidden fees.
It makes no sense to buy a security precisely when an insider decides the timing is perfect to sell. Frankly, it isn't worth spending five seconds thinking about IPOs."
- Warren Buffett
ELON MUSK JUST SAID:
โWEโRE GOING TO HAVE UNIVERSALLY HIGH INCOME.โ
THE PROBLEM RIGHT NOW WITH $SPCX AND $TSLA VALUATION IS THEIR REVENUE TO MARKET CAP RATIO.
HE ALSO SAID THAT HE WILL BASICALLY BE โISSUING MONEY OUT TO PEOPLE.โ
AFTER HEARING THIS, WILL YOU BE BUYING ANY SPACE X OR TESLA STOCK?
The man who called the 2008 housing collapse just made a prediction about Elon Musk that is hard to ignore (Save this).
Steve Eisman, the Big Short investor says he fully expects Musk to use the SpaceX IPO stock price to buy Tesla and merge both companies into one giant entity called X.
Tesla's earnings have declined for four consecutive years.
The EV business, Eisman argues, is not structurally attractive but rather is capital intensive, it is highly competitive, and China is producing electric vehicles at costs Tesla simply cannot match.
The issue with using SpaceX stock to buy Tesla is precisely what it sounds like.
SpaceX is about to list as what would be the largest IPO in history, targeting a valuation around $1.77 trillion, with a thesis built on orbital compute, Starlink and the future of AI infrastructure.
Tesla is a car company with four years of declining earnings, competing on price against manufacturers who have a structural cost advantage.
Combining those two businesses would force SpaceX shareholders to absorb Tesla's problems, its margin pressure, its China exposure, its capital requirements at the exact moment SpaceX is trying to tell the cleanest possible growth story to public markets.
bitmine and strategy are running the same trade from opposite balance sheets, and the difference is the whole story if you actually want to know which one can be forced to sell.
both are doing the saylor playbook: use a public company as a vehicle to stack a single crypto asset, and let the stock trade as leverage on it. strategy holds about 844,000 bitcoin. bitmine holds about 5.4 million ether, roughly 4.5% of the entire supply. same idea, two different coins.
the difference is how they paid for it.
strategy funded most of its bitcoin with convertible debt, around 7 billion of it, with maturities stretched across 2028 to 2030. that debt is unsecured, which matters: there is no margin call, no lender who can seize the bitcoin if price drops. saylor is right about that part. but unsecured debt still comes due. if the stock is below the conversion price when those notes mature, strategy has to repay in cash, and the cleanest place that cash comes from is selling bitcoin. that is not a margin call. it is a refinancing wall, and it arrives on a schedule.
bitmine took the other path. it bought its ether almost entirely with equity, and its newest raise is perpetual preferred stock, about 274 million at 9.5%, paid weekly out of staking income. perpetual means no maturity. there is no date when anyone has to be handed back the principal, because there is no principal to return. zero corporate debt, ether held spot and free and clear, nothing pledged as collateral.
so walk the checklist. margin call? neither, both unsecured. forced sale at maturity? strategy yes, bitmine no, because bitmine has no maturity. the only pressure bitmine faces is economic, not contractual: if ether stays cheap for years, the dividend on a growing preferred stack could eventually outrun staking income. but the answer to that is skip a dividend or draw down cash, not dump ether. selling would be a choice, not a trigger.
the honest scorecard: bitmine has the cleaner structure, it removed both the debt and the maturity that create forced-seller risk. strategy has the longer track record and a far bigger cushion, but it carries a refi wall bitmine does not. one is safer by design, the other is more battle tested. neither is the ticking time bomb the headlines want them to be.
๐จ BREAKING
๐จ๐ณ CHINA HAS ANNOUNCED THE START OF A SPECIAL MARITIME OPERATION NEAR TAIWAN, ACCORDING TO GLOBAL TIMES
THE OPERATION INVOLVES MULTIPLE MARITIME AGENCIES, NAVIGATION AUTHORITIES, AND RESCUE TEAMS
BEIJING SAYS "THIS IS RESPONSE TO RECENT CONSULTATIONS BETWEEN JAPAN AND THE PHILIPPINES REGARDING MARITIME BOUNDARIES"
THIS IS NOT GOOD FOR THE MARKETS
Crypto Holders - Prepare for SpaceX IPO This Week
TimeStamps:
00:00 Intro
01:01 Michael Saylor AI Liquidity Vacuum
05:52 What's Next For Bitcoin
06:12 SpaceX IPO Warning
09:25 Bitcoin vs SpaceX
๐ WHALE WATCH: The brutal reality of crypto is that 95% of people only buy the top.
They ignore $BTC when it chops for months at support levels.
Then they FOMO in after a massive green candle and get trapped by the whales.
Success in this market requires surviving the boring phases.
How long have you been holding through this current chop ?
This is absolutely insane.
If you invested $3,000 in Tesla's IPO in June 2010, you'd be a millionaire today.
If you invested the same $3,000 in $BTC that same month, you'd have $5.35 BILLION today.
๐จTHE FBI CREATED A FAKE CRYPTOCURRENCY.. LISTED IT ON UNISWAP.. HIRED MARKET MAKERS TO PUMP IT.. THEN ARRESTED EVERYONE WHO SAID YES..
THIS IS THE CRAZIEST LAW ENFORCEMENT OPERATION IN CRYPTO HISTORY!!!
The FBI built an actual ERC-20 token on Ethereum called NexFundAI.. 100 billion token supply.. A professional website.. Whitepapers promising "passive income through AI-powered investing"..
It looked exactly like every other crypto project.. Because that was the point..
Undercover agents posed as the founding team.. Then reached out to professional market-making firms and said "we need you to fake our trading volume"..
Every single firm said yes..
Here's what they recorded..
Gotbit.. A firm run by a 26-year-old Russian who publicly bragged in 2019 that he built a business faking trade volumes.. His team kept internal spreadsheets with columns literally labeled "fake volume" vs "market volume"..
When asked how fast they could pump NexFundAI's volume to $1 million per day.. They said "6 hours.. It will cost about $200"..
$200 to fake $1 million in daily trading volume..
MyTrade.. Run by a guy who called himself "the mastermind".. He explained the exact psychology of the scam on camera..
"We make the chart look like a really nice roller coaster ride.. That's where people jump in.. We have to make them lose money in order to make profit"..
He said that on a recorded FBI video call..
CLS Global.. A Dubai-based firm.. Their bots generated 98% of NexFundAI's total trading volume.. When the FBI asked if they could sync fake volume spikes with fake news announcements.. They said absolutely..
ZM Quant.. Bots executing 10 to 20 trades per minute through dozens of wallets to look organic..
All of them knew it was fraud.. All of them did it anyway.. All of it was recorded..
And the clients were even worse..
Saitama.. A meme coin that hit $7.5 billion market cap.. The founders coordinated buys through private Telegram chats.. Sent "pump it" memes while manipulating the price.. Then dumped on retail investors..
$7.5 billion.. Built entirely on fake volume.. Every penny of real money came from retail investors who thought the momentum was organic..
One founder left Saitama and started Robo Inu.. Used Gotbit again.. Another launched VZZN.. Same playbook..
Lillian Finance.. Founder claimed to be a defense contractor who addressed Congress.. Marketed the token as funding children's hospitals.. Pocketed everything..
When the FBI shut it down.. They seized $25 million in one day.. 18 people indicted across the US, UK, and Portugal.. The CEO of Gotbit was arrested in Portugal and extradited.. Sentenced to 8 months plus $23 million forfeiture..
But here's the part that broke my brain..
Real people bought NexFundAI..
The FBI's fake token.. With zero utility.. Zero real developers.. Created solely to catch criminals.. Attracted real retail investors because the fake volume made the chart look bullish..
When the FBI pulled the liquidity to end the operation.. Those people lost real money.. On a government-issued token..
The FBI had to set up a restitution portal to pay them back..
And it gets worse..
Within 24 hours of the DOJ announcing the sting.. Someone cloned the FBI's exact smart contract.. Launched a copycat token.. Rode the viral momentum.. And made $127,000 in a single day..
Using the exact same manipulation tactics the FBI just arrested 18 people for..
Then in 2026.. The FBI did it again.. New token called Lexobit.. 10 more arrests.. Including operators extradited from Singapore..
IRS forensics showed that in one firm's trading.. 1,209 out of 1,221 consecutive transactions went straight back to wallets the firm controlled.. 99% circular..
The FBI proved what everyone in crypto suspected..
The volume is fake.. The charts are painted.. The momentum is manufactured..
And every time you buy a token because "the chart looks bullish".. You might be the exit liquidity.