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@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan Peter Ryan

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Social topic influence bitcoin #1948, money, stocks, bitfinex #5, currency #251, cryptocurrency #391, cryptocurrencies #43, stablecoins #231, investment #3010, finance

Top assets mentioned Bitcoin (BTC) Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL) Uber Technologies, Inc. (UBER) DoorDash, Inc. (DASH) SPDR S&P XXX ETF Trust (SPY) Mosaic Co (MOS) Galaxy Digital Inc. (GLXY) Seagate Technology Holdings PLC (STX) Super Micro Computer, Inc. Common Stock (SMCI) Bitcoin Cash (BCH) Nike Inc (NKE)

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"39/ According to Griffin and Shams Bitfinex would receive tethers and use some to buy Bitcoin (BTC) on its own exchange as well as others. If those tethers pushed up Bitcoins (BTC) price Bitfinexs holdings and Tethers reserves increased in value. This creates a self-perpetuating flywheel. More tethers fuel higher Bitcoin prices which increases the US dollar value of reserves (composed partly of Bitcoin) on paper which fuels more tether printing from the nominal reserve growth. Other researchers like Coinmonks (@coinmonks) Gerard Martnez corroborated Griffins and Shams paper"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-25 20:23:29 UTC 10.3K followers, XXX engagements

"Growth disparities were not as crazy in the 1980s"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-24 23:54:12 UTC 10.3K followers, XXX engagements

"If the hustle bro economy is using crypto as collateral to finance real estate and other asset purchases then we are in for fun times ahead"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-25 01:34:36 UTC 10.3K followers, XXX engagements

"4/ I was once a Bitcoin true believer. Back in 2013 I sat in a New York University classroom when an eccentric libertarian took to the podium to evangelize the new currency. Drawn to the message I soon interned at the Bitcoin Center on Wall Street where I participated in the nascent community. I later hosted events promoting the merits of cryptocurrencies. In 2018 I joined the crypto-focused news site CoinDesk where I reported on the industry. I also produced a documentary series on cryptocurrencies"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-25 16:57:05 UTC 10.3K followers, XXX engagements

"40/ But Tethers unbacked dynamic is best corroborated by legal sources. In April 2019 New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a case against Tether and Bitfinex. Their general counsels affidavit admitted that tethers were only XX percent backed by cash at the time. At a hearing in May of the same year another attorney for the companies said: Tether actually did invest in instruments beyond cash and cash equivalents including Bitcoin they bought Bitcoin"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-25 20:25:09 UTC 10.3K followers, XXX engagements

"36/ No cryptocurrency exchange was bigger than Bitfinex. Bitfinex was an early investor in small blocker-led Blockstream. Bitfinexs executives also managed Tether the company that pioneered stablecoins: cryptocurrency tokens backed 1-to-1 with the equivalent dollar reserves. Stablecoins are desired for trading because they offer easier use on unregulated cryptocurrency exchanges than traditional dollars. Tether tokens were the blood pumping through the body of the exchange: More tethers equaled more trading"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-25 19:29:40 UTC 10.3K followers, XXX engagements

"53/ The dirty secret of the stablecoin strategy is that it directs global dollar flows that would otherwise never pass regulatory scrutiny into the Treasuries market. To whatever degree poor residents of the developing world use stablecoins as high-minded crypto advocates suggest to enjoy the stability of a dollar-based financial infrastructure they could never otherwise access they can only do so because stablecoins dont provide the same level of regulatory scrutiny that the traditional financial infrastructure does. This ostensibly humanitarian argument in that sense is also an admission of"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-25 21:57:27 UTC 10.3K followers, XXX engagements

"Intel rolling back European presence to focus on U.S. and citing Trumps AI action plan (Bloomberg) as the core motivation"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-24 20:55:09 UTC 10.3K followers, XXX engagements

"Honestly guys wtf are we doing here lol. Q1 2025 Real GDP: -XXX% The only sectors that grew: - Information: XX% - Real estate and leasing: XXX% - State/local gov't: XXX% - Health care and social assistance: XXX% - Professional scientific and technical services: 1.2%"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-17 05:48:18 UTC 10.3K followers, 14.4K engagements

"@AdrianPocea @Fkoffeloj Market cap has nothing to do with making real goods and future growth"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-22 17:35:02 UTC 10.3K followers, XX engagements

"Same vibe as Disney world combined with Cheesecake Factory. Performative and hollow. People take the NYC ride and get comically large cocktails. Instead of creating coherent urban design the city crudely expands in a mold-like fashion to accommodate more ticket buyers"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-23 18:26:21 UTC 10.3K followers, XXX engagements

"16/ Uber (UBER) grew at XXXXX percent and DoorDash (DASH) at XXXX percent. The Business of Apps reported XXX million people use Uber or Uber Eats once a month an XXXX% increase year-on-year. Uber drivers completed XXXXX billion trips in 2024 almost two billion more than in 2023. The amount of Uber drivers has grown by XX percent since Q1 of 2023. Recently a user on the subreddit /uberdrivers wrote: Not to be a Debbie Downer but as inflation takes a bite out of everyones wallet more folks are looking for that easy side gig or even just a gig because theyre not employedAdditionally all the ride"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-15 14:38:10 UTC 10.3K followers, XXX engagements

"24/ Finally lets compare the US YTD stock performance to Europes. We will use three European market ETFs as proxies. On top iShares MSCI Eurozone ETF (EZU) grew at XXXXX percent. SPDR S&P XXX ETF Trust (SPY) grew at XXXXX percent. iShares Core MSCI Europe ETF (IEUR) grew at XXXXX percent. Vanguard FTSE Europe ETF (VGK) grew at XXXXX percent. The average of the European ETFs of XXXXX percent grew about X times that of the US S&P XXX. Other US-focused ETFs that focused on higher ends of the market like technology the top XX by market cap and the Magnificent X didnt show much better performances"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-15 14:42:20 UTC 10.3K followers, XXX engagements

"Cryptocurrencies are innovations that should be embraced. They offer freedom and prosperity. Most importantly they secure the U.S. dollar and fund the government debt. Just take a sip and all this can be yours"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-17 21:41:05 UTC 10.3K followers, XXX engagements

"51/ The Trump administrations embrace of cryptocurrency as a means of shoring up the dollar builds on arguments made within the post-Scaling War Bitcoin world. In February of 2020 crypto investor Nic Carter (@nic__carter) argued that far from compromising the dollars mighty advantage internationally cryptocurrency and the infrastructure built to support it i.e. stablecoins may well entrench its position. Similar arguments were offered by The Bitcoin Policy Institute in 2021. Bitcoin provides a dollar-denominated market for stablecoins. Together each of their growth supports the US dollar and"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-25 21:45:14 UTC 10.3K followers, XXX engagements

"54/ As it grows the stablecoin system is coming to function as a shadow central bank. As of June 2024 stablecoin issuers own $XXX billion in US Treasuries meaning they own more than Germany the worlds third-largest economy. In 2024 stablecoin issuers were the third biggest purchasers of US Treasury Bills right behind China. A Bank for International Settlements (BIS) (@BIS_org @VARshad_ @i_aldasoro) paper published in May of 2025 found that stablecoins not only acted like a central bank but weakened the existing central bank. Stablecoins depress Treasury yields and have similar effects to"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-25 22:00:41 UTC 10.3K followers, XXX engagements

"8/ Austrian economics reached its all-time-high on Google Trends in February of 2009 and its second all-time-high in January of 2012. It was during this period of popularization that Bitcoin was developed and promoted by Satoshi Nakamotoa pseudonym for a shadowy figure whose identity remains uncertain. Nakamoto led the development of the project from 2008 to 2011 when he mysteriously disappeared"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-25 17:18:00 UTC 10.3K followers, XXX engagements

"16/ A new centralized authority arose in the same year when the entrepreneur and former MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito announced the launch of the Digital Currency Initiative under his department within MIT. As its website states DCI was formed in order to provide a stable and sustainable funding for long-term Bitcoin Core developers. Parallel organizations emerged as well. For-profit entities like Blockstream Block (formerly Square) Xapo and BitMEX as well as non-profit organizations like Chaincode Labs and Brink also helped fund developers"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-25 17:45:39 UTC 10.3K followers, XXX engagements

"Ok so basically US stocks got artificially inflated thanks to ZIRP dollar dominance and Silicon Valley hype. Now ZIRP is over world is dedollarizing and companies can't generate earnings to justify valuations. For extra spice add in trade wars and capital controls. So global investors are starting to flee US markets and seek the next best thing: Europe. Europe is acting as a capital sink which is why the Euro is up against the dollar European stocks are 2-5xing US stocks and demand for European bonds has increased. Europe looking attractive although it has US dollar asset / export market"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-21 19:54:19 UTC 10.3K followers, 41.6K engagements

"Finally we can see just the three median income measures growing. Median wages grew at XX% median household income at XX% and median personal income at 60%"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-24 23:57:08 UTC 10.3K followers, XX engagements

"37/ On Jan. X 2017 the tether supply was about $XX million. By Aug. X it grew XX times to a total of $XXX million. By Jan. XX 2018 it was $XXX billion. In just about one year the Tether companys supply of tether tokens and its alleged 1-to-1 reserves grew XXX times. Was Tether such a good product that it attracted that level of customer frenzy When Tethers activities were closely examined it revealed their growth to be more artificial than natural"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-25 19:30:25 UTC 10.3K followers, XXX engagements

"6/ In the years since the speculative frenzy around cryptocurrencies has only continued to gather steam to the benefit of private actors who have reaped massive profits from the industrys growth and are exercising a growing influence over the state. In the process Bitcoins founding goal of fighting unconstrained government spending has been inverted as crypto is increasingly serving as a means of enabling more deficit spending an agenda the Trump administration has all but explicitly embraced. Today crypto is merely the latest ruse to persuade the public to surrender democratic freedom and"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-25 17:12:02 UTC 10.3K followers, XXX engagements

"62/ At the end of Julius Caesar Mark Antony turned to his friends Romans countrymen to rally the people against the elites who had conspired against Caesar. In the same spirit the only way to defeat vile money and limit the power of oligarchs is through the democratic power of an awakened people. THE END"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-25 22:38:05 UTC 10.3K followers, XXX engagements

"I give you the rational market making decisions along business fundamentals to produce optimal outcomes"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-25 01:45:59 UTC 10.3K followers, XXX engagements

"Don the Con will go down in history. Not even the GOP Paul Ryanites could have weaved this through. The Art of the Con"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-23 00:16:19 UTC 10.3K followers, XXX engagements

"9/ Bitcoin was digital money that you could send to anyone anytime anywhere. No one could control or confiscate it. Its combination of cryptography blockchain networking and proof-of-work mining created a true technological novelty. Devotees of Austrian economics flocked to it because it was a money not forced on them by the government but offered to them in the marketplace. From forum posts it is clear that Nakamoto was a follower of Austrian theories on gold. Bitcoins most cherished feature is its XX million coin finite supply which emulates the scarcity of precious metals"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-25 17:19:35 UTC 10.3K followers, XXX engagements

"My recommendation has remained the same since this article. Ireland needs to increase bank credit. That bank credit needs to be directed by the state towards real estate with constraints about the types geographies and demographics said new housing will be offered to"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-25 00:17:36 UTC 10.3K followers, XXX engagements

"@Fkoffeloj ASML for one now Google the rest"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-22 05:02:37 UTC 10.3K followers, XXX engagements

"17/ Discount retailer Dollar General (DG) grew at XXXX percent. Dollar Tree (DLTR) grew at XXXXX percent. PYMNTS reported that Dollar Generals same-store sales increased XXX% and its financial results exceeded internal expectations in the quarter ended May X as higher-income consumers came to its stores in search of valuethe retailer saw the highest percentage of higher-income value-seeking customers it has seen in four years. No one is going to Dollar General because they are attracted to its ambiance. People are forced to shop there. This report strikes me as saying people are falling down"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-15 14:38:41 UTC 10.3K followers, XXX engagements

"What explains our under expectation for U.S. equities Exhibit X shows elevated CAPE ratios are a prime culprit. With the highest starting CAPE level and the highest subsequent return combination in history the last decade has been an extreme outlier. In fact the X% intercept is directly related to the upward revaluation the increasing P/E multiples of U.S. equities. This contributed XXX% per year to total return. That trend is unlikely to continue. This does not mean the U.S. CAPE will revert to its historical average of XX. But if the current CAPE of around XX reverts only to XX its average"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-21 17:39:50 UTC 10.3K followers, 1171 engagements

"4/ Any public company that follows OpenAIs lead whether in part or in whole gets the rising tide of AI speculative investment. The market is reliant on this bet paying off even if its promises are sounding more and more like sci-fi. In addition to the direct AI stocks other companies benefit from this hype. OpenAI and the like run huge server farms to enable their AI systems. This means data infrastructure providers semiconductor chip manufacturers and electricity companies are derivative beneficiaries"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-15 14:25:18 UTC 10.3K followers, XXX engagements

"Mike didnt answer the question on what happens when the supply of new bitcoin to be mined runs out if you are a bitcoin miner Variable fees for processing transactions are theoretically supposed to kick in at scale but thats sabotaged by small block size limits and layer 2s"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-20 19:56:28 UTC 10.3K followers, XXX engagements

"Its because Anglo liberal cultures prioritize inflating assets over increasing underlying real productive economic activity. Why run a business when you can just pump an assets nominal value untethered from real value Its not housing supply its capital at root"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-24 19:48:07 UTC 10.3K followers, 13.8K engagements

"57/ If this is where we end up as seems increasingly likely crypto will be at the heart of the public sector: sovereign debt. It will be tied to the enemy Bitcoin once sought to defeat. There was no more idealistic Bitcoiner than Ver the Bitcoin Jesus who believed the new currency could bring an end to what he saw as the evil of a financially unconstrained government. Over a decade later the industry he helped bring into being has become a means of further removing any constraints from debt-financed government spending. A true believer could once make the argument that the ends of Bitcoin"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-25 22:09:06 UTC 10.3K followers, XX engagements

"27/ When Nakamoto and other early developers originally set the block size limit it was a temporary solution to avoid spam transactions. According to Mike Hearn Nakamoto added a quick hack to manage data transfer and storage problems. But he added that the limit could later be increased. The limit was never meant to be permanent or intrinsic to Bitcoins functionality. A car jack is temporarily used to change a tire but no one would consider the car jack a permanent nor intrinsic feature to a cars functionality. Neither should anyone assume that with the temporary block size limit. In 2010"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-25 18:53:25 UTC 10.3K followers, XXX engagements

"15/ Following the money makes Bitcoins centralization even harder to deny. After the early experimental years built mostly on volunteer labor a formal organization was set up to support the software. The Bitcoin Foundation was created in 2012 with Ver among others on the leadership team. Its mission stated that it would be funding the Bitcoin infrastructure including a core development team. Funding came from Bitcoin insiders whether large investors like Ver or companies like Bitcoinstore Mt. Gox Bitinstant Coinbase and CoinDesk. It is estimated that the foundation had a few million (in"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-25 17:44:37 UTC 10.3K followers, XXX engagements

"35/ Two days later Bitcoin Cashs (BCH) computing power overtook the small block Bitcoins (BTC) computing power in what became known as the Flippening. The former now composed the majority of total computing power. The small block Bitcoin (BTC) had lost XX percent of its computing power in only a few days while Bitcoin Cashs (BCH) computing power had gone up over X times in the same period. It appeared that Bitcoin Cash (BCH) was about to win the Scaling War vindicating Nakamotos vision of decentralization. Investors who observed these mining trends started to push Bitcoin Cashs (BCH) price up"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-25 19:27:01 UTC 10.3K followers, XXX engagements

"5/ The top four highest growing stocks YTD were Palantir (PLTR) at XXXXX percent Seagate (STX) at XXXXX percent Super Micro Computer (SMCI) at XXXXX percent and NRG Energy (NRG) at XXXXX percent. Palantir is a military industrial complex (more on that later) data analytics technology that leverages AI. Seagate provides data storage products and solutions like hard disk drives. Super Micro Computer sells enterprise servers and software for them. NRG Energy is an electricity generator that sells to wholesale and retail customers. Of these four only Palantir was above the median market cap of"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-15 14:26:17 UTC 10.3K followers, XXX engagements

"33/ Although almost all miners had signaled their support for the big block side with much of the businesses and user community in agreement a concentrated small group of special interests who never documented any definitive measurement of majority support coordinated an online campaign to distort perceptions and exert pressure. This eventually led Bitcoin (S2X-BTC) to voluntarily surrender in early November of 2017"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-25 19:24:03 UTC 10.3K followers, XXX engagements

"P/E ratios average higher as you go up in market cap cohort. The US equities most susceptible to an overvaluation rubber band snap correction are the largest ones"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-21 19:33:24 UTC 10.3K followers, 13.8K engagements

"34/ This left only Bitcoin Cash (BCH) as the big block rival to the small block Bitcoin (BTC). According to BitInfoCharts a big block revolution began rumbling on Nov. XX 2017 when Bitcoin Cashs (BCH) computing power doubled overnight and the small block Bitcoins (BTC) computing power started to fall. This was a signal that miners were starting to vote in favor of Bitcoin Cash (BCH). On Nov. XX 2017 Nakamotos direct heir and big blocker Gavin Andresen tweeted Bitcoin Cash is what I started working on in 2010: a store of value AND means of exchange. This was like rocket fuel"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-25 19:25:11 UTC 10.3K followers, XXX engagements

"Lynn suggests Ireland's Occupied Territories Bill and its interaction with US Boycott laws should be ultimately taken up to the US Supreme Court and call US' bluff. Risks aside boy would little Ireland be causing big waves with that game of chicken"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-24 00:26:31 UTC 10.3K followers, XXX engagements

"38/ University of Texas finance professor John M. Griffin and his doctoral student Amin Shams detailed Tethers activities in a 2018 paper. For the period of March X 2017 to March XX 2018 Griffin and Shams found plausible evidence to conclude that a few actors printed tethers without real dollar backing to artificially rescue Bitcoin (BTC) when its price fell and stimulate its overall growth. The trading activity was concentrated on Bitfinex with trading patterns not seen on other exchanges. Griffin and Shams also noted the dubious nature of Tethers reserves and demonstrated unbacked issuance."
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-25 20:19:17 UTC 10.3K followers, XXX engagements

"Reminder that when neoliberal shills try to cope about relative wage stagnation they always refer to total compensation which is inclusive of health insurance premiums which go to your health insurance company not for you to use on rent and food"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-25 03:23:39 UTC 10.3K followers, XXX engagements

"61/ In 1776 American colonists rose up against the English to demand representation in government. As feudal aristocrats gave way to financial oligarchs later American nationalists fought against the rise of oligarchic private banks. The first case for a democratic central banking system in opposition to 19th century financiers promoted by Irish-American economist Henry C. Carey and championed by Abraham Lincoln. Bitcoin and stablecoins are the new instantiation of this long-war between democratic and oligarchic control"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-25 22:22:17 UTC 10.3K followers, XXX engagements

"5/ I was never a major player in the ecosystem but as I met various influential figures and learned more about how crypto really worked I began to realize that behind the rhetoric of freedom decentralization and empowerment was a reality in which a few elites were accumulating immense wealth under false pretenses. As the cryptocurrency economy expanded and evolved over the course of the 2010s it became hard to ignore how radically the facts diverged from the vision I had been sold. So in 2019 I wrote a Medium post called Leaving Crypto terminated all my crypto-related contracts and"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-25 16:59:49 UTC 10.3K followers, XXX engagements

"52/ The evolution of crypto narratives also prepared the way for the current administrations embrace of stablecoins. Although Bitcoin was intended to be a censorship-resistant medium of exchange and store of value independent of governments and central-bank fiat money the effect of the Scaling War was to split off Bitcoins function as a medium of exchange from its function as a store of value. According to the small blockers Bitcoin would continue to provide a store of value but layer 2s would serve the medium of exchange function enabling transactions between users. In 2018 economist"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-25 21:50:29 UTC 10.3K followers, XXX engagements

"The wealthy own a disproportionately large share of stocks which means the divergent stock growth disproportionately benefits them. In 1989 the top XX% held XX% of all corporate equities and mutual funds. In 2025 the top XX% held XX% of all corporate equities and mutual funds"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-24 23:59:02 UTC 10.3K followers, XXX engagements

"20/ In this light its not surprising that luxury brands would be gaining. Rich people are buying more. If this was a broad retail upswell we would expect to see that type of growth elsewhere in normal retail. Amazon (AMZN) is only up XXXX percent (below the S&P XXX average of XXXX percent). Nike (NKE) is down XXXX percent Williams-Sonoma (WSM) is down XXXX Lowes (LOW) is down XXXX percent and lululemon (LULU) is down XXXXX percent. The Street reported last month that it's not exactly the best time in history to be a retailer as normal retailers struggle. Given that clarity its apparent the"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-15 14:40:37 UTC 10.3K followers, XXX engagements

"We are beyond parody. Top X% received XXXX% of capital gains and the top XX% got 75.7%. Meanwhile tariffs are a regressive tax that hit poorer Americans more. We've jumped the shark from developmental tariffs to outright over-taxing the poor to offset under-taxing the rich"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-23 00:13:45 UTC 10.3K followers, 1072 engagements

"Zooming in and excluding stocks we can see real estate's growth better contrasted to median incomes"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-24 23:55:01 UTC 10.3K followers, XXX engagements

"28/ Contrary to the founders intention core Bitcoin developers argued that Bitcoin was best scaled by way of non-Bitcoin based layer 2s which interfaced with Bitcoin but were not bound by its structure and incentives. Increased Bitcoin transaction capacity would increase the aggregate variable fees miners could receive whereas frozen Bitcoin transaction capacity meant that providers of layer 2s could divert those fees to themselves. For example Blockstreamone of the major Bitcoin companiesoffered a layer X product called the Liquid Network which promised to accommodate increased demand for"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-25 19:00:41 UTC 10.3K followers, XXX engagements

"42/ When all these sources are digested together the logical conclusion is that unbacked dollar-like tokens were printed to tilt prices on an exchange bottleneck. Bitfinex an exchange with a clear small block conflict of interest was in total control of what Griffin and Shams described as a pseudo-central bank"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-25 20:27:53 UTC 10.3K followers, XXX engagements

"2/ On July XX after declaring Crypto Week President Trump signed into law the GENIUS Act in a major legislative win for the burgeoning cryptocurrency lobby. Two other bills keenly supported by the industry the CLARITY Act and the Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act also passed the House this month and are now awaiting a vote in the Senate. Together these bills promise to turn an industry once relegated to the shadows into an important part of the American economy"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-25 16:52:00 UTC 10.3K followers, XXX engagements

"21/ As a minor related note there was also evidence that healthcare providers were doing well while healthcare insurers were declining. UnitedHealth Group (UNH) lost XXXXX percent Humana (HUM) lost XXX percent and MetLife (MET) lost XXXX percent. This likely caused by the population aging as the baby boomers enter their final third of life. There will be more need for healthcare products and services for them but health insurance companies cant seem to make their math work. More older people equals more care which equals rising insurance costs. Similar to the impoverishment trend those stocks"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-15 14:40:53 UTC 10.3K followers, XXX engagements

"23/ If we assume these categories are valid then we are left with some surprising findings. The vast majority of the XXX normal companies in the stock market have only grown by XXX percent. They are barely beating the inflation rate of XXX percent when we should be expecting the historical average of X percent especially in the context of all the growth news. However that growth is sucked up by just a few stocks. Both AI and defense grew at XX times the normal market. Electricity grew at X times luxury at XX times poverty at XX times and Palantir at XX times. As a hedge against this gold grew"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-15 14:41:56 UTC 10.3K followers, 1648 engagements

"Theres a certain type of NYCer that is no different in substance from a Disney Adult but only in aesthetics. The only people that understand the city are Boroughoids and Bridge and Tunneloids"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-23 18:33:43 UTC 10.3K followers, XXX engagements

"49/ The context for this idea is the diminishing role of the US dollar as the world reserve currency. The dollar fell from about XX percent of global currency reserves in 2000 to about XX percent in 2022. Trump and his advisers are worried about a global flight from dollar-denominated assets which will also reduce the federal governments borrowing capacity and budgetary flexibility. The cryptocurrency trading market which is reliant on stablecoins denominated in dollars provides a strategic avenue to reverse the de-dollarization trend. This is because as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-25 21:21:05 UTC 10.3K followers, XXX engagements

"3/ When Bitcoin the first cryptocurrency was invented it was promoted as a financial technology that would empower individuals and wrest power away from the state and centralized elites. Just a decade and a half later those same elitesincluding the Trump administration and bipartisan majorities in Congresshave embraced cryptocurrencies. But that is because rather than lifting up ordinary citizens crypto has become a new means of expanding elite power and wealth"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-25 16:54:49 UTC 10.3K followers, XXX engagements

"50/ This phenomenon is an evolution of what the economist Michael Hudson calls the Treasury Standard. Instead of other countries buying Treasuries with their surplus dollars generated out of the US balance of payments deficit stablecoin backers would do so. The US government is now pursuing a Stablecoin Standard"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-25 21:23:08 UTC 10.3K followers, XXX engagements

"41/ In February 2021 Bitfinex and Tether settled the New York suit for $XXXX million. They were also banned from the state and compelled to submit transparency reports. Jamess office stated that Tethers claims that its virtual currency was fully backed by US dollars at all times was a liestarting no later than mid-2017 Tether had no access to banking anywhere in the world and so for periods of time held no reserves to back tethers in circulation at the rate of one dollar for every tether contrary to its representations"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-25 20:26:45 UTC 10.3K followers, XXX engagements

"Italy builds X times the number of ships than U.S. smartass. Do you not understanding that two trends have different crests and trajectories The world doesnt work by look it did this in the past so it must do this in the future. The point of forecasting is to identify changes"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-22 17:42:26 UTC 10.3K followers, XX engagements

"58/ Even from a strictly libertarian perspective then it is what Shakespeares Brutus in Julius Caesar calls money by vile means. In 2024 the Department of Justice indicted Ver (@rogerkver) for tax fraud. He and his supporters contend that this is an unjust persecution. But even under the new pro-crypto Trump administration Ver is unable to get his case dismissed. For all Vers advocacy and idealism he has been hung out to dry by his own people while Bitcoin and stablecoins fuse more and more with his despised government. Ver used his Bitcoin wealth to fund Anti-war dot com (@Antiwarcom) with"
@_PeterRyan Avatar @_PeterRyan on X 2025-07-25 22:11:18 UTC 10.3K followers, XX engagements