Kane McGukin

The human urge is to corral collateral and then print. We saw it with gold We saw it with oil We see it with Treasuries We’re seeing it with Bitcoin, but we’ll call it Digital Credit for the sake of making it feel different. A new generation of gold bugs is born.

How to Make a Bitcoin 𝖳̶𝗋̶𝖾̶𝖺̶𝗌̶𝗎̶𝗋̶𝗒̶ Mint: Print Equity

How Wall Street Turned Scarcity into Credit Again

The tariff comments seem to be misplaced. It’s not about Tariffs. They are secondary to the important point. It’s about access. China has effectively threatened to do what the US did when cutting Russia off from SWIFT. Except there are other ways to make money transfers and there aren’t many other ways to ship goods. The power is in the supply chains, as I noted in 2021 when kicking off my SubStack:

Current Personal Thesis and Reflections

Our choices are dollars or not dollars...

Enjoyed sitting down with @Pierre Rochard for EP64 to explore the rise of Bitcoin-backed notes. We discuss what happens when Bitcoin becomes collateral, SPVs, private credit, and why declining volatility helps set the stage for a true Bitcoin yield curve. 🔗 🎧 to listen👇 Apple Podcasts:

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In 1913, bankers promised “decentralization.” What we got was the Fed and the death of gold as sound money. Today, Bitcoin faces the same ghost in Core vs. Knots. First principles are non-negotiable. New essay 👉Bitcoin Faces Its 1913 Moment.

Bitcoin Faces Its 1913 Moment

Is the Core vs. Knots battle a replay of two ideological Federal Reserve Plans that ultimately centralized gold, the original sound money?

The Yuan peg and allowance of floating gold prices through a global network of exchanges is the 4D chess move. It allows for control of global liquidity without facing Triffin’s Dilemma. Options: checkmate or come to the bargaining table.

The Network Wars Are Here… Railroads won the Civil War. The cloud and the arrival of Monetary Tech Stacks will decide the next one. History has proven, the empire that controls noise will control the future. Network Power: How Networks Build Empires, Break Nations, and Shape Order 👉

Network Power: How Networks Build Empires, Break Nations, and Shape Order

Noise, Narratives, and the Battle for Global Influence

Last week, the White House cited @Matthew Pines & @Bitcoin Policy Institute / @Bitcoin Policy Institute / @btcpolicyorg (RSS Feed). 🎙️ I enjoyed chatting with Matthew shortly after on: ⚔️ The battle for global monetary power 💥 Bitcoin/Stablecoins - America’s new Monetary Tech Stack 🕸️ Narrative warfare 🎙️

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Fiat-🧠 & high time preference are back in play. The Bitcoin Treasury 🫧: ✅Equity-funded BTC flywheels. 🏁Securitized hype. 💸mNAV mania. BTC is sound money. BTC-TCs are a risk wrapper, a speculative attack. The Bitcoin Treasury Bubble: Reflexivity, Metrics, & the Coming Unwind 👇 Read + Download: 🔗

The Bitcoin Treasury Bubble: Reflexivity, Metrics, and the Unwind

How valuation distortions, metrics, and Wall Street engineering built a new kind of speculative bubble on top of sound money.

🚨 unpopular opinion 🚨 We are still early in Bitcoin not bc of the technological innovation around currency. But more bc of the low levels of credit relative to the underlying collateral asset. The early shift to credit & lending in bitcoin is what is in the early innings.

I missed this one, but the entire idea of The 4th Turning cycle is laid out in Isaiah 23:15-18.