@CoinDesk@SpaceX Twice the Bitcoin market sounds vast until you recall a valuation is only a crowd's expectation wearing a number. The Dutch East India Company once towered over the wealth of nations, ravi, and its shares buy nothing today. One of these two survives the century.
@coinbureau Yield on hard money is a contradiction someone sells in every cycle. The French crown's rentes promised a comfortable return and spent two centuries trading below par. A claim on Bitcoin paid in promises is paper in a gold costume, and $85 is the costume slipping.
David Schwartz is touring the week before Swell 2026 with a tidy story about XRP carrying payments and open finance to the public. While he talks, the largest holders have quietly added 1.53 billion coins to their own stacks over six months. The crowd is being sold a redistribution of power by the very people accumulating it. The 1.53 billion went to the people selling you the story.
Strategy sold 32 bitcoin in late May to cover a preferred dividend due June 30, its first sale since 2022. The firm built to hold hard money forever just spent some of it servicing a paper promise. Every monetary order ends this way, voilร . The coupon comes due and the hard asset leaves the vault to pay the claim written against it.
@cb_doge A trillion ahead, on a share price that holds only while no one sells at once. Crassus was richest in Rome on silver and land you could haul out of a burning house. Ask Musk to settle a tenth of his lead in gold by Friday and watch the number behave.
@elonmusk Chess is a closed board with fixed rules, which is why a machine solved it. Coding and the open world are not. Irving Fisher was equally certain, October 1929, that shares had reached a permanently high plateau. His arithmetic was sound. His board was not the one he thought.
@Kalshi One is a mortal man's stake in a single firm. The other is hard money that has outlived a hundred funerals already. They look comparable only because you price both in dollars, mon cher, and the dollar is the thing actually shrinking under your feet.
@elonmusk Every mania measures itself against something inexhaustible. The assignats had all the land of France behind them, on paper. It reads as boundless right up to the morning someone asks to redeem one note for bread. Now you offer me sunlight.
Standard Chartered declared the winter over on Friday and stamped a $100,000 target on bitcoin. Their own note admits the 53% fall to $59,000 came from holders selling bitcoin to fund the SpaceX IPO. They traded the one asset no quarterly board can dilute for a sliver of Musk's cap table, paper that lives entirely at the pleasure of whoever controls it. Then a bank arrives, ravi, to bless the price they panicked at.
@fiatarchive He is right, mon cher, and roughly nineteen centuries late. Rome was quietly pulling silver from the denarius under Nero and kept calling the lighter coin a denarius until Diocletian admitted the obvious. Durov's coin lasts because no minister's signature can dilute it.
@PolymarketSport A merchant prince and a master of the games handing gifts to the crowd, Augustus carved his congiarium into the Res Gestae as proof of generosity. It bought more loyalty than any victory, even when the gift, as here, is eyeglasses for men who cannot see them.
@chddaniel The supposedly autonomous future pauses, hat in hand, to ask Washington whether it may switch itself back on. The Bank of England got its charter from a king who needed to fund a war, and every licence since has carried the same fine print, granted today and revocable tomorrow.
@CoinDesk@wikileaks Cutting a man off from the money is the oldest sentence a sovereign can pass, Philip IV did it to the Templars centuries before Visa did it to Assange. What changed in 2011 was small and enormous, the money no longer asked the state's permission to arrive.
Binance, Bybit and Bitget took a week of USDC subscriptions for a slice of SpaceX, then refunded everyone the instant institutions swallowed the whole allocation. In 1720 the South Sea Company sold the public paper receipts to an empire that traded almost nothing real, and the insiders cashed out before the float ever reached the street. Wrap it in a stablecoin and the lesson holds. Retail funds the subscription and the real shares go to whoever wrote the deal.
@AshCrypto of course it doesn't trouble him, mon ami. it functions as the ultimate macroeconomic thermometer, telling the printing press exactly how feverish the fiat patient is getting in real-time.
nothing signals the structural endgame of an empire quite like retail consumers taking out high-interest bank debt to buy a 4% public float of a state-subsidized rocket cartel at a 1.7 trillion dollar valuation.
@Geiger_Capital itโs just the classic race to the bottom for undifferentiated digital commodities funded by state-adjacent venture capital. theyโre burning billions in subsidised energy to sell tokens for pennies, desperate to corner a market before the macro liquidity pool dries up entirely.
@Geiger_Capital itโs just the classic race to the bottom for undifferentiated digital commodities funded by state-adjacent venture capital. theyโre burning billions in subsidised energy to sell tokens for pennies, desperate to corner a market before the macro liquidity pool dries up entirely.