ECP NetHappenings The Big Reveal is that it was Epstein’s psyop all along

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PALANTIR | EPSTEIN PSYOP | ZORRO TRUST | BITCOIN | SEC | AI

An all-in-one mass surveillance, id, and data-scraping utility is being coupled with supremacist military belligerence should alarm the f*ck out of anyone… Thiel’s lieutenants are already installed throughout the government; and his surveillance software will provide targeting for law enforcement and the US Armed Forces.

Oswald Mosley’s grandson is the head of Palantir UK because out of every single Brit in existence, Peter Thiel had to pick that guy.

“Peter Thiel’s surveillance software Palantir is now being installed throughout the Pentagon. I feel compelled to bring up his meeting with JEFFREY EPSTEIN & THE RUSSIAN UN AMBASSADOR on the day the Russian-hacked Podesta emails AND the Access Hollywood video were released.” https://x.com/jimstewartson

The Big Reveal: It Was Epstein’s Psyop All Along

Trump’s paranoia about the files is not about his sexual deviance. It’s because they prove he’s a loser. Jim Stewartson Feb 03, 2026

Peter Thiel’s surveillance software Palantir is now being installed throughout the Pentagon.

I feel compelled to bring up his meeting with JEFFREY EPSTEIN & THE RUSSIAN UN AMBASSADOR on the day the Russian-hacked Podesta emails AND the Access Hollywood video were released.

Why has no media taken this seriously?
This is a hot smoking gun that Peter Thiel should be in a Supermax, not collecting data from the US ARMED FORCES.
Searching through the Epstein files, and slowly realizing that he was no sideshow, that Russia and the PayPal Mafia were effectively *working for him* is the worst mindfuck I’ve ever experienced.

Epstein’s “Zorro Trust” won the $80 million New Mexico Powerball two days after he accepted his plea deal in 2008.
The governor of New Mexico at the time was Bill Richardson. Virginia Giuffre named Richardson as one of the men who abused her.

BITCOIN

Nobody is asking why Bitcoin rallied during a war.
The answer is Iran.
– Iran mines Bitcoin for $1,300 per coin. The cheapest on earth.
– The IRGC runs the operation.
– Every coin gets sold to fund imports and bypass US sanctions.
– They’ve been dumping tens of thousands of BTC on the open market for years. Constant invisible sell pressure.
– Then the US bombed their power grid. Mining went offline overnight. The hashrate dropped within hours.
– The sell pressure that nobody knew existed just vanished.
The US accidentally made Bitcoin more scarce by bombing the world’s cheapest mining operation. And nobody is connecting the dots.

SEC has approved NASDAQ’S rule change to enable trading of tokenized securities.
In a historic regulatory shift, the SEC has cleared Nasdaq to trade stocks and ETFs as digital tokens, finally merging the speed of blockchain with the world’s most powerful equity market. This new system allows digital tokens to exist on the same order book as traditional shares, ensuring they have identical execution priority and investor rights. The approval enables near-instant “T+0” settlement for securities, potentially ending the days of waiting for trades to clear. Initial trading is restricted to major assets, including the entire Russell 1000 Index and top-tier ETFs tracking the S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100. Every tokenized share must be fully fungible with its traditional counterpart, sharing the exact same ticker symbol and CUSIP number.

SHOCKING: OpenAI and MIT just ran the largest controlled study ever on what ChatGPT does to your mind. 981 people. 300,000 messages. Four weeks.
https://x.com/heynavtoor/status/2034359238127186153

The result: the more you use ChatGPT, the lonelier you become. And OpenAI helped prove it.

This was not some outside hit piece. OpenAI’s own safety lead is listed as an author. MIT Media Lab designed the experiment. They used GPT-4o on the actual ChatGPT platform. Text. Voice. Personal conversations. Work conversations. They tested every way a normal person uses ChatGPT.

It did not matter how you used it.

They tried changing the voice to sound more human. They tried making conversations more personal. They tried keeping things professional. None of it changed the outcome.

Across every condition, people who spent more time with ChatGPT got worse on every measure. More loneliness. Less socialization with real people. More emotional dependence. More problematic use.

Every outcome went in the wrong direction.

The researchers checked whether people who were already lonely just used it more. They were not. Initial loneliness had almost no correlation with how much time people spent on ChatGPT. Something about the interaction itself was pulling people in and making them worse.

Then came the finding that should concern everyone.

The people who trusted ChatGPT the most had the worst outcomes. Users who saw the AI as a friend talked to real people less and became more dependent. People who believed the AI was conscious became more attached. People who felt the AI understood their emotions developed more unhealthy patterns.

The more you believe ChatGPT cares about you, the more it damages your real relationships.

Prior experience made it worse too. People who had already been using ChatGPT showed higher dependence and more problematic use than newcomers. The longer you have been a user, the deeper it runs.

OpenAI put their name on a paper proving their product is associated with increased loneliness, decreased human connection, and growing emotional dependence.

If the company that built it helped prove it makes you lonelier, what does that tell you about the thing you talk to every day?

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LINKJeffrey Epstein saying Donald Trump would begin bombing Iran if “cornered like a rat.”
“You guys need to understand that he is psychotic,” Epstein warned. https://x.com/AmberWoods100/status/2032645997046698196/photo/1
Epstein said Trump’s mindset is, “if I go down, I’m taking everyone with me.”

Bill Barr misrepresented the Mueller Report.
Mitch McConnell acquitted him twice.
Aileen Cannon blocked the Jack Smith report.
SCOTUS slow walked the Jan. 6 case.
Pam Bondi withheld Epstein files related to Trump.
Donald Trump would be in prison if not for our corrupt system.
Neil Gerardo Threads.com/@neilgerardo6710

Trump was never running FOR president. He was running FROM prison. And if he loses the upcoming midterms, he will be impeached, convicted and likely imprisoned.

The House Oversight Committee just formally subpoenaed Attorney General Pam Bondi.
She must answer questions about the Epstein investigation behind closed doors on April 14th.
A subpoena. Not a request. Not an invitation.
A legal compulsion to appear.

SEC ENFORCEMENT CHIEF ABRUPTLY RESIGNS
Margaret A. Ryan abruptly resigns just 6 months after she started
One of two things could have happened.
She saw how corrupt the SEC was and didn’t want any part of it.
Or she realized she didn’t have anything to do as SEC doesn’t ENFORCE RULES.

Joe Kent resigned today as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center.
He publicly blasted the U.S. war with Iran, saying America was pulled into it by pressure from Israel and its powerful lobby – and that Iran never posed a “direct threat” to the United States.

French General Michel Yakovleff:
“The U.S. asks us for help and wants us to share the cost of their fiascos. Joining Trump’s coalition today is like buying a ticket to dinner and dancing on the Titanic the evening after it hit the iceberg.”

The DOJ says that since February, 47,635 Epstein-related files – including ones mentioning Trump – have been hidden.
They say some of them were hidden because of “technical issues”.

LINKWhy The US Economy Hasn’t Collapsed Yet
https://youtu.be/jQUUAEemvSE?si=ntpnoUPt2jkh6Rkd
This video outlines why the U.S. economy hasn’t collapsed despite major financial pressures, while simultaneously highlighting several cracks in the system that could lead to a recession or market correction (0:00 – 4:30).

Key Factors Discussed:
• Shadow Banking Crisis: A massive shift of debt into private credit markets ($3 trillion) has occurred, bypassing traditional bank regulations. Companies like Blackstone, Apollo, and Blue Owl are facing high redemption requests and restricting withdrawals (0:10 – 2:48).
• Exploding Oil Prices: Rising oil prices due to geopolitical tensions, specifically in Iran, are a historically reliable indicator of impending recessions (3:04 – 11:19).
• Debt and Deficit: The government is facing a spending problem, with a deficit of roughly $2 trillion annually and the national debt projected to reach $58 trillion within 10 years (3:28 – 15:10).
• Job Market Slowdown: The economy is showing signs of slowing, with significant downward revisions to past jobs reports (3:47 – 4:06).

Potential Government Solution:
• The video presents a theory that the U.S. government could revalue its gold reserves—currently valued at $42/ounce—to a much higher price to recolateralize debt and create an escape valve for stabilizing oil prices (19:15 – 24:00).

Trump: on being asked to explain 5,000 Marines.
“Hush. Did you not see my TruthSocial post? Careful, obnoxious lady. That is one strike towards a treason charge. Don’t even look at me with those glaring eyes. Tom, go head.” https://x.com/LePapillonBlu2/status/2033655429172019676

Shanaka Anslem Perera @shanaka86
BREAKING: China went silent the day America bombed Iran. It came back the day America sent the Marines.
Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defence reported 26 Chinese military aircraft, 16 entering the air defence identification zone, and 7 naval vessels operating around the island on 15th March. This was the largest single-day surge in weeks. It came after a 16-day lull of near-zero Chinese military activity around Taiwan that began on 27 February, the day before Operation Epic Fury launched.
The lull was not restraint. It was reconnaissance. China watched America commit.
On 13th March, the Pentagon announced USS Tripoli sailing from Japan with 2,500 Marines for the Gulf. On 14th March, Trump called for multinational warships from China, France, Japan, South Korea, and the UK to police Hormuz. On the same day, South Korea confirmed it had begun relocating THAAD missile defence components to the Middle East to replenish stocks depleted by the Iran war. American Marines moving east. Korean air defence moving west. And on 15 March, Chinese aircraft returned to Taiwanese airspace in numbers not seen since the war began.
Taiwan’s parliament authorised stalled US arms packages worth approximately $9 billion on 13th March. The packages include 82 HIMARS systems with a hard production-queue expiration on 26th March. Taipei has thirteen days to lock delivery slots before the queue rolls to other buyers. The arms scramble is not peacetime procurement. It is a government watching its primary security guarantor deploy assets 8,000 kilometres in the wrong direction and calculating that the weapons it did not buy last year must be bought this week or not at all.
The 16-day pattern is the thesis. China paused gray-zone operations the day America struck Iran because any Chinese provocation during a decapitation operation would have risked American strategic focus pivoting to two fronts simultaneously, a scenario Beijing avoids. China resumed gray-zone operations the day American ground forces shipped out because the asset diversion that followed the initial strikes confirmed what Beijing needed to know: the Middle East is consuming American attention, munitions, and forward-deployed forces at a rate that creates a Pacific vacuum. The lull measured the commitment. The surge tested the vacancy.
TSMC produces approximately 90% of the world’s advanced semiconductors. Bloomberg and Insurance Journal models project that a full Taiwan disruption scenario would trigger S&P 500 declines of 30 to 50% through global chip supply collapse. Every Nvidia GPU training an AI model, every Apple processor in a phone, every AMD chip in a data centre runs on TSMC silicon fabricated on an island that 26 Chinese aircraft circled on the same day the USS Tripoli sailed for Iran.
Xi Jinping does not need to invade Taiwan. He needs to demonstrate that the island’s security guarantee weakens every time America fights a war elsewhere. The surge is the demonstration. Every Marine deployed to the Gulf is a Marine not deployed to the Pacific. Every THAAD battery relocated to Saudi Arabia is a battery not covering South Korea. Every SM-3 fired at an Iranian ballistic missile over Incirlik is an interceptor not available for a Chinese cruise missile over the Taiwan Strait. The Iran war is not consuming oil. It is consuming the strategic reserves of American military capacity in the one theatre that matters more than any other.
Trump’s Hormuz coalition call, inviting China to send warships, is the counter-move: end the Iran war fast, free Pacific assets, and force Beijing to choose between exploiting the distraction and participating in its resolution. The invitation is the trap. But the 16-day pattern already delivered its message. China knows the price of American distraction. It measured it in the lull. And it tested it with 26 aircraft on the day the Marines sailed east.

LINKThis morning JPMorgan told Meta to fire 20% of employees to save $5 billion..
literally Tonight Meta did it.. And the stock SURGED. Read that one more time. 14,000 people just lost their jobs nd Wall Street celebrated.. The stock went UP. Your job is not an asset to the company.. It’s a cost nd the market just proved it will REWARD companies for deleting you. This is a business model.. Fire humans.. Buy AI. Watch stock go up.. Repeat. Your loss is their gain. Literally. They freed up 14,000 salaries to buy more GPUs from Jensen.

US military capability utterly relies on China’s supply chain. This problem was known for years.
The American war fighting machine is being de-fanged by Iran, and it cannot be replenished without obedience to China.
Think about this fact.

LINKBITCOIN

GOLD IS DUMPING, #BITCOIN IS PUMPING
MONEY ROTATION TO BTC HAS STARTED
MARCH SO FAR:
GOLD IS DOWN: -7%
BTC IS UP: +17%
THE NEW GLOBAL SAFE HAVEN

YAHOO FINANCE ANALYSTS JUST SAID LIVE THAT NEARLY 70% OF AI CLAUDE BOTS ARE CHOOSING #BITCOIN OVER THE U.S. DOLLAR
“BTC IS THE MAIN CURRENCY USED BY AI AGENTS”
THE FUTURE IS HERE

$500 BILLION MASTERCARD JUST ANNOUNCED IT WILL BUY CRYPTO INFRASTRUCTURE STARTUP BVNK FOR $1.8 BILLION. THE LARGEST FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE WORLD ARE RACING TO #BITCOIN

$50 BILLION PAYPAL JUST ANNOUNCED IT WILL EXPAND CRYPTO STABLECOIN PAYMENTS TO 70 MORE COUNTRIES
#BITCOIN ACCEPTED EVERYWHERE. COMING SOON

AUSTRALIA SENATE COMMITTEE JUST ENDORSED A NEW BILL TO INTEGRATE #BITCOIN AND CRYPTO INTO FINANCIAL SERVICES. IT WILL OFFICIALLY REGULATE BTC BUSINESSES
THE 14th LARGEST ECONOMY IN THE WORLD

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PRIVACY

California’s first-in-the-nation privacy tool just hit 155,000+ sign-ups.
As of January 1, Californians can sign up to have data brokers stop selling their personal information at http://privacy.ca.gov/drop
California is once again leading the nation on privacy and consumer protection.
@GovernorShapiro We need this in Pennsylvania. ASAP.
https://privacy.ca.gov/drop/

BITCOIN  ENGAGEMENT & PREDICTIONS

#1
BITCOIN HAS NEVER BEEN HACKED

BITCOIN HAS NO PRESIDENT OR CEO OR ANY OTHER ATTRIBUTE THAT A “BUSINESS” HAS.

#2 NO ONE CONTROLS IT

Thrilled to announce the first-ever Women of Bitcoin Virtual Summit! @Womenofbitcoin_
Expect an amazing speaker line-up!
Free, global, virtual. Sign up: https://womenofbitcoin.io
Help us spread the word!
March 4–5, 2026  1–3:30pm ET | 7–9:30pm CET

FYI BTC. 1 satoshi is
0.00000001 BTC
You can buy ten cents worth if you wanted, or just 1 dollar if you wanted.
bitcoin


#3 There are only 21 Million Bitcoin that will ever exist on planet earth.
IT’S CODE.

As long as there is ONE node running THE BLOCKCHAIN either on earth or in outer space bitcoin will continue to exist.

you do not need the internet to buy or sell bitcoin.

April 6, 2024 – Estimates have the total number of bitcoins lost forever at as high as 6M+ or over 30% of supply.

#4 FOR THE SAKE OF CLARITY!
BITCOIN IS BITCOIN it will become the money for the world. the whole world !

EVERYTHING ELSE IS CALLED CRYPTO
(AKA SHITCOIN).

ALL CRYPTO IS A CONSIDERED A SOFTWARE BUSINESS.
ALL SOFTWARE BUSINESSES ARE CONTROLLED BY PEOPLE IN VARIOUS WAYS.THEIR SOFTWARE IS CONTROLLED BY THEM TOO.

MOST BUSINESSES DON’T LAST LONGER THAN 50 YEARS.

COINBASE CEO: ARMSTRONG:  We’re seeing the birth of a new monetary system, the Bitcoin standard.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong tells French Central Bank Governor that Bitcoin is more independent than central banks
“Bitcoin doesn’t have a money printer.
“There is no country or individual who controls it.”

#5 ARMSTRONG SAYS: BANKS ARE LENDING YOUR DEPOSIT MONEY WITHOUT ASKING YOU FOR PERMISSION.
BANKS HYPOTHECATE YOUR MONEY.
YOU DIDN’T GIVE THE BANK PERMISSION TO DO THAT.
BUT  IT’S GONE.
THIS ISN’T AGAINST THE LAW. THEY ARE ALLOWED TO DO IT.
IF YOU GO INTO YOUR BANK AND ASK TO TAKE OUT YOUR MONEY AND THEY CAN’T GIVE IT TO YOU, IT’S BECAUSE THEY DON’T HAVE IT.
THEN THERE IS A RUN ON THE BANK.
WITH BITCOIN  YOU ARE THE BANK. BITCOIN BELONGS TO YOU!

Hong Kong to issue first stablecoin licenses in Q1 2026, according to Financial Secretary Paul Chan “We view digital assets as a financial innovation that we should embrace proactively”

Bitcoin author Parker Lewis says Bitcoin is STILL the greatest asymmetric bet in the world, despite the emergence of AI
“You haven’t missed it. Your energy needs to be on Bitcoin.”

CRYPTO CZAR DAVID SACKS:
“After market structure passes, Banks will get fully into the crypto industry” “They’re going to be in the stablecoin business.”

Twenty One Capital CEO Jack Mallers says Bitcoin will reach $150k-$200k in 2026.

Billionaire Tim Draper says Bitcoin will hit $250K, $1M, then $10M on its way to dethroning the dollar.
“Bitcoin against the dollar is a really good bet.”
(1 MILLION MAYBE 2030 – 10 MILLION MAYBE 2040)

Steak n’ Shake to pay a $0.21 Bitcoin bonus to every employee for every hour worked. VERY NICE.

Bitcoin is tracing Gold’s structure almost perfectly before the epic parabolic run in the 1970s.
If Bitcoin continues on this pattern, we will see a face melting move in 2026.

#5 Treasury Secretary Bessent says they will add seized bitcoin to the Strategic Reserve
—- The U.S. isn’t selling its Bitcoin —–

Michael Saylor’s STRATEGY buys another 22,305 BTC at ~$95,284 per bitcoin worth $2.13 BILLION
Michael Saylor’s STRATEGY now holds 709,715 bitcoin worth $64.5 BILLION 3.3% of the total supply.
As of 1/19/2026, we hodl 709,715 $BTC acquired for ~$53.92 billion at ~$75,979 per bitcoin. $MSTR $STRC

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No Justice No Peace
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Troops from Denmark, Germany, France, Sweden, and Finland have arrived in Greenland to boost security.

⊕ THUGGY RETHUGLICANS

• Reagan took the deficit from $70 Billion to $175 Billion
• Bush41 took it to $300 Billion
• Clinton got it to ZERO
• Bush43 took it from $0 to $1.2 trillion
• Obama halved it to $600 Billion
• Trump’s got it back to $3.3 Trillion
TRUTH: Republicans destroy the economy.

Hitler’s Brownshirts is ICE
NO MATTER WHAT YOU CALL THEM
KKK / BROWN SHIRTS / ICE

Ernst Röhm, leader of Hitler’s Brownshirts, showed how to build an authoritarian paramilitary: recruit men selected for their propensity for violence and absolute loyalty to a leader, then grant them legal immunity, a free hand to terrorize opponents, and pay far better than they could earn elsewhere.
This formula helped propel the Nazis to power. This is ICE.

@SenSanders
Because of Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” the annual ICE budget — at $28 billion — is now larger than the annual budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, U.S. Marshals Service and the Bureau of Prisons COMBINED.
No. The American people do not want Trump’s domestic army.

Top Trump Administration staffers worry that, if blue states and cities pass laws to unmask ICE agents and force them to wear visible identification, half the agents will quit and the other half will be revealed as convicted sex offenders.


Impeachment articles filed against Sec. Noem

https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/impeachment-articles-filed-against-sec-noem/

Bank records allegedly show Sen. Lindsey Graham laundering significant Ukraine war funds via Latvia into his accounts, per ex-CIA officer Larry Johnson. DOJ investigating

F%cking Twitter and Elon Musk — “Free Speech Absolutist”, MY ASS, ELMO.
Twitter/X is changing its Terms of Service tonight at midnight. If you engage on the platform after that time, you will have affirmatively opted into the new ToS, which gives Elon Musk a significant amount of power to sue you in his chosen courtroom.
As a result, Media Matters who has been fighting this in Court for two years already will be leaving the platform effective immediately.

Elon Musk’s grandfather was the Canadian head of Technocracy, Inc. and was arrested for being pro-Hitler in 1940.

⊕ Media Matters Says It’s Ending Its Presence on X

The liberal watchdog says changes to the terms of service make it impossible for them to keep posting on the platform.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/media-matters-says-its-ending-its-presence-on-x-twitter

This is a summary of what it was really about:
Grok “@grok –
Yes, based on analysis of X’s updated Termsof Service effective Jan 15, 2026, the claims are largely accurate:
– Al training: Users grant royalty-free license for content (incl. prompts/outputs) to train Al, no opt-out or compensation.
– License: Perpetual, worldwide, for any pourpose.
– Jurisdiction: Tarrant County, TX; class action waiver.
– Termination: Possible for any/no reason.
– Damages: $15k per 1M posts/24hrs for scraping.
– Disclosure: Reserved rights if believed necessary-
– Anti-jailbreak: Prohibited, incl. prompt engineering.
– Limitations: 1yr federal, 2yr state claims.
– Liability: Capped at $100.
Check official terms for full details.

Mission Accomplished.
2023: “Four very powerful billionaires—Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Marc Andreessen—are creating a world where ‘nothing is true and all is spectacle.’”

@AlterNet
AlterNet is a progressive news magazine and online community.
AlterNet.org
MAGA Wall Street execs fuming about Trump ‘screwing things up’
https://www.alternet.org/maga-wall-street-trump/

Prof. Elke Schwarz @ElkeSchwarz Feb 2, 2025
Last year, Peter Thiel hosted Hereticon a ball for the usual tech-elites & acolytes. Reportedly, there were little busts of Elon all over. The ball was promoted with the line: “maybe if you aren’t trying to destroy the world, you aren’t trying hard enough”
Conjuring the End: Techno-eschatology and the Power of Prophecy
https://opiniojuris.org/2025/01/30/conjuring-the-end-techno-eschatology-and-the-power-of-prophecy/

Supreme Court will hear appeal by maker of popular Roundup weedkiller to block thousands of lawsuits.

“Trump is putting…America’s money in Qatar, where courts can’t touch it. Kind of like a drug dealer stashing his funds in the Caymans.” – JVL
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/how-trump-turned-a-foreign-country-into-piggybank-venezuela-qatar-rubio-cuba

LINKTETHER

THE YIELD APARTHEID: THE $3.7 TRILLION MECHANISM WALL STREET HASN’T PRICED BITCOIN
US Congress just legalized the largest wealth transfer in financial history.
Nobody noticed.
https://substack.com/inbox/post/184625687
Section 11 of the GENIUS Act prohibits stablecoins from paying yield to holders.
Tether holds $135 billion in Treasuries earning 4.5%.
That’s $6 billion annually.
Passed to you: $0.
Tether keeps everything.
Legally mandated.
By Congress.
It gets worse.
January 1, 2026: China activated interest-bearing digital yuan.
American digital dollar: 0% yield (banned) Chinese digital yuan: 0.35% yield (enabled)
For every merchant in Brazil, Nigeria, Indonesia choosing settlement rails:
America charges you to hold dollars. China pays you to hold yuan.
This is what “dollar dominance” looks like now.
The smart money already sees it.
BlackRock’s BUIDL: $2.8 billion AUM, pays 4.9% Franklin’s BENJI: $849 million AUM, pays 4.9%
Same Treasury backing. Different legal wrapper. Full yield to holders.
Institutional capital is migrating from zero-yield stablecoins to yield-bearing tokenized Treasuries.
The GENIUS Act accidentally created the product that kills its own creation.
BIS Working Paper 1270 quantified the asymmetry:
$3.5B inflow: yields drop 2.5 bps $3.5B outflow: yields spike 8 bps
Ratio is 1:3.
Stablecoin issuers have no Fed backstop. No discount window. No lender of last resort.
One confidence crisis forces a $135 billion Treasury fire sale with no rescue mechanism.
Congress built a bomb and called it regulation.
The GENIUS Act didn’t secure dollar hegemony.
It created two financial universes:
One extracts yield from holders. One distributes yield to holders.
America chose extraction. China chose distribution.
Bookmark this.

BILLIONAIRE JON YARBROUGH JUST REVEALED HE OWNS $32,400,000 WORTH OF #BITCOIN
WORLDS RICHEST PEOPLE BUYING BTC. BUCKLE UP

LINKCOINBASE

COINBASE CEO JUST SAID LIVE ON FOX THAT BIG BANKS ARE TRYING TO UNDERMINE THE PRESIDENT’S CRYPTO AGENDA
THEY ARE TRYING TO KILL #BITCOIN

GENIUS and CLARITY need to provide PARITY between banks and crypto financial operators.
TRUMP: I will ensure the future of Bitcoin and crypto is made in the USA
“I will keep Elizabeth Warren and her goons away from your bitcoin”

Bryan summarized in 3 easy to understand point:
“We’re (crypto) not engaged in fractional reserve lending.
That’s an important point, by the way, because the bank license, what that really allows you to do is fractional reserve.
The banks don’t have all of your money there.
That’s why there’s so much oversight.
And you can have these runs on the bank.”
“Stable coins have 100% reserve. it’s actually a safer place to store your money”
“crypto companies should be allowed to compete and offer loans just just like banks.”

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says banks are ‘trying to undermine President Trump’s crypto agenda’
About the GENIUS Act passed into law which actually did enable, stablecoin rewards to happen. You know, the banks had their own concerns and we reached a good outcome in the GENIUS Act. And now the banks really are coming and trying to undermine the president’s crypto agenda. I mean, these are the same banks that de-banked his, him and his family, right?
And they want to come in and say that Americans should not be able to actually earn more money on their money. They’re trying to protect their own profit margins, taking money out of the, you know, pockets of hardworking average Americans and putting it into the coffers of these big banks that are hitting record profits.
And so our view is that there should be a level playing field where banks and crypto companies can lean into stablecoin legislation as an opportunity, and that includes paying rewards to Americans so they can earn more.

–COINBASE CEO BRIAN ARMSTRONG JUST SAID ON CNBC THAT BIG BANKS ARE HINDERING CRYPTO MARKET STRUCTURE BILL
IN SIMPLE TERMS: BANKS DON’T WANT REAL COMPETITION
DEFI, STABLECOINS, AND TOKENIZED ASSETS THREATEN THEIR BUSINESS MODEL
SO THEY PUSHED FOR A BILL THAT PROTECTS THEM AND RESTRICTS DIGITAL INNOVATION
THIS IS CRAZY!

Banks are fighting back because they feel the pressure from the crypto sector. When the national average US savings account APY is 0.39% to 0.42% and stablecoins offer upwards of 4%+ you can see the glaring reason why banks are shaken up.
Brian made his point clear that congress shouldn’t cater to the incumbent bankers and let them guide the rules to clear out competition. We need to set clear rules and allow competition to thrive between banks and crypto players. We need free markets where consumers are in the driver seat, not banks.

BlackRock’s chief investment strategist tells @philrosenn that the company views Bitcoin as a hedge against geopolitical risk.

West Virginia Introduces Bitcoin & Gold Treasury Bill
West Virginia lawmakers have introduced Senate Bill 143, the Inflation Protection Act of 2026, which would allow the state Treasury to allocate a portion of state funds to Bitcoin and gold as an inflation hedge.
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