The way people are mass dismissing this geopolitical tension as “bluffs” reminds me of how the masses thought JPow was bluffing about rate hikes Q1-Q3 2022.
Guess what geniuses. Sometimes a spade is a spade.
@PauloMacro
Those shorts are just institutions hedging their duration exposure. Look at small specs. Look at FMS. Look at sentiment/chatter. Everyone thinks long bonds is a good trade. It's not; it's crowded. IMO
Good argument that we have been in a depression since 2008. Heard it from
@EmilKalinowski
@hendry_hugh
@JeffSnider_AIP
No better example of that than EM stocks. A neutral observer would say this chart looks an awful lot like 1929-1937.
U.S. stocks different because fake QE
@RJRCapital
You know who ends up holding the bag when they’re done pillaging this ponzi. The passive retirement account holders. Mom and pops. Criminals!
@MirageTurning
@OwenBenjamin
There are 5 mining pools which determine what transactions are allowed. They can and have censored transactions. The freedom argument doesn’t work. It’s just a plain old ponzi.
@RJRCapital
I love how the bulls’ base case is always everyone should be in STAHKS and long. This American obsession with equities has gone too far. It’s worse than 1920s almost.
@goldseek
Bank wires are more anonymous than Bitcoin. At least with a bank wire, only the bank and the person I transact with knows who I am. With Bitcoin, the whole world knows what I am doing with my money and how much I have.
@smdiehl
The “tech” (if you can even call it that given it’s a 1990s style database) is just a way to obscure the scam. The same way Elizabeth Holmes pretended to be a tech founder, it’s sleight of hand where any inquiry is framed as not understanding this “complicated tech.”
@PauloMacro
Bizarre take. I have never seen fintwit this bullish. The guy you quoted has been posting bearish charts for a decade; he hardly counts as a sentiment indicator.
@MFHoz
Yep. The only reason it couldn’t happen before was too many people prepared for it. Now everyone has emptied their accounts into the market, so we can see some real bidless price action.
@TicTocTick
Already has. Millennials made more money (inflation adjusted) than prior generations, yet so many complain about having no savings. Wanna wager a guess why? They all bought the top of crypto.
@texasrunnerDFW
@rationalaussie
Bitcoin is a window to extreme poverty. Most people buy at the highs. The average cost basis of retail participants is north of $50k.
Bitcoin is part of the reason millennials can’t afford homes despite making more money than prior generations.
@biancoresearch
Those “shorts” are firms hedging their duration exposure. Look at small specs for the true sentiment. Sentiment is overwhelmingly long. The message in MSM is you need to be long bonds.
NVDA phenomenon has more to do with the not-QE they injected into the banking system than anything to do with technology. The stock just happened to be the pumping vehicle because it had a good narrative at the time.
If it wasn’t NVDA it would have been something else.
@nic__carter
@Noahpinion
Running an economy on Bitshit is most akin to the free / wildcat banking era. You’d have a bunch of entities like Binance being the de facto banks.
@Cephii1
@smdiehl
Let’s see how valuable your “spun up” blockchain is without an exchange like Coinbase to funnel real world dollars in.
Very easy to end crypto by choking off the ties to real the real banking system.
@RetirementRight
There are a LOT of crypto baggies out there. It’s like 50% of the population, maybe 99% of CNBC viewers. Saying soothing things about the ponzi gets them ratings.
@InverseAgres
@BecauseBitcoin
Don’t shoot me, but they’re doing the same thing now but in reverse. They’re telling their flock to load up their life savings into this “dip” a few percent off all time highs.
@donnelly_brent
Yeah this isn’t gonna work. It’s just going to keep falling. 36k is still a sky high price for these worthless chuck-e-cheese tokens. There is no one left to buy.
@salarymander1
@notAgres
If bank websites get compromised, they can just shut it down and reverse any fraudulent transfers. If Bitcoin keys get compromised, it’s gone FOREVER.
@notAgres
Yup. Crypto especially Bitcoin is a bet against technology. It’s 16 year old software that never gets updated. Some Google employee working on the quantum computer will steal everyone’s keys and market sell a couple thousand coins before people notice and price tanks to 0.
@IDKFA3
They only know a few phrases. It’s like talking to a parrot or a GPT. When you get indoctrinated into the Bitcoin cult, they must give you a little red book with a bunch of canned responses.
@GRomePow
It’s all belief. You can’t justify crypto having monetary value without circular arguments. It’s the definition of fiat money. We already have fiat money, we don’t need another one.