*The feedback loop is simple: Markets rise → Public confidence holds → Political risk premiums fall → Markets rise again. …for a while I thought that the stock market was just ignoring politics. But it isn’t! It is politics now, a political actor that can grant or withhold legitimacy. Artificial intelligence fuels valuations, those valuations stabilize public confidence, that confidence grants the administration power, and the administration protects the system that sustains it. …Viktor Shvets sees a cycle - tech is ripping apart society (apparently a good investment) so people are buying gold as a “hedge against destruction”. …AI is extraordinarily expensive but still searching for demand: Training frontier models will likely cost billions of dollars. But only a small fraction of people pay for these services. …AI was sold as the end of slop but what it delivered was more slop. The market rewards attention, not utility, and both AI and politics has adapted to that logic. …The equity market believes the AI story overrides everything else. The gold market believes something is fundamentally breaking. They’re both reacting to the same underlying reality, but they just have different theories about what happens next. …Gold trades on fear of the system. AI trades on faith in the story.* AI Is the Market, and the Market Is the Government, Kyla Scanlon

Is this correct? 🤔 Perplexity: The Bitcoin mempool cannot be hosted directly on Nostr. Each Bitcoin full node hosts its own mempool, which is a local, temporary storage of unconfirmed transactions that the node will try to include in future blocks. This mempool is specific to each node and is not a shared or distributed database—there is no single global mempool. Nostr is a decentralized social networking protocol primarily for message and event broadcasting, not for hosting blockchain transaction pools.

🤡 *Deutsche Bank predicts Bitcoin could be added to central bank reserves by 2030 as its volatility falls and its behavior resembles gold, despite not being “backed by anything.”*

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Central banks will end up holding Bitcoin in their reserves | Good or Bad? \ stacker news ~bitcoin

Central banks will end up holding Bitcoin in their reserves even though it is ‘backed by nothing,’ Deutsche Bank predicts Deutsche Bank predict...

*Gold is institutionally collateralized, when gold goes up that means even more dollars can be created as loans against it, a percentage of those dollars find their way to Bitcoin which has a smaller float (higher multiplier). Flywheel effect.*

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YTD gold has increased in market cap by 3.5 bitcoin market caps. We are early \ stacker news ~bitcoin

Gold has added ~7 trillion in market cap YTD. On the bright side, bitcoin has a long way to run on the monetary side although it looks like this de...

And the wonderful possibility is that this could apply to so many other people too. *The increase in wealth that saving in Bitcoin creates, is a springboard to chase the things you care about* View quoted note →

*[Bitcoin] is a tool of empowerment that teaches you to say “no” to the siren calls of the consumer society. It teaches you that true wealth is not found in what you own, but in what you can live without. By offering you the best savings technology in history, Bitcoin does more than just protect your purchasing power; it protects your time, your energy, and your focus, allowing you to allocate them to what truly matters*

Bitcoin: More Than a Monetary Revolution, a Personal Revolution Towards Frugality.

Bitcoin is a tool of empowerment that teaches you to say "no" to the siren calls of the consumer society.

*When a handful of politically aligned billionaires control where millions get their information, editorial independence becomes impossible. This isn’t hidden conspiracy. It’s visible consolidation dressed as saving an app from foreign control while enabling domestic ideological alignment.* View quoted note →

*If Bitcoin can be killed by one attacker sending one instance of illegal content, then it was never antifragile. This argument concedes Bitcoin can’t survive adversarial use, which undermines the entire value proposition* View quoted note →