Hey hey Bitcoin Wealth Builders,

We’ve hit a new milestone—and no, I don’t just mean Bitcoin's price.

In Episode 82 of BitcoinHardTalk, we crossed into a moment of global clarity. The fiat empire is rotting from the inside. Civil unrest is being engineered. Geopolitical alliances are shifting like tectonic plates. And at the center of it all? Bitcoin.

This week, Bitcoin smashed through a new all-time high, hitting $111,894. Fifteen years to the day since Laszlo Hanyecz traded 10,000 BTC for two pizzas. Today, those coins are worth over $1.1 billion. Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day. That trade aged like the fiat system—badly.

But the real story isn’t the number go up. It’s why it’s going up. Bitcoin is becoming the last credible refuge from a weaponized, Ponzi-fied debt machine that’s now too unstable to save and too profitable to stop.

Let’s break it all down.

This Week in Bitcoin, Crypto & CBDCs

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This week, the headlines were loud—but the signals were louder.

Bitcoin hit $111.8k. Kraken announced it will soon offer tokenized U.S. stocks to users worldwide. Circle is in talks to sell USDC to Coinbase or Ripple. Texas just passed its Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Bill. And Vivek Ramaswamy’s Strive Asset Management wants to buy 75,000 BTC from Mt. Gox claims to build a Bitcoin treasury.

This isn’t random. This is sovereign accumulation dressed up as corporate strategy.

Cantor Fitzgerald bought 1.07 million shares of MicroStrategy in Q1—nearly 50% of its entire portfolio. Blackstone made its first-ever crypto allocation by purchasing BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF. Japanese investors are fleeing their domestic markets and flooding into MetaPlanet—Bitcoin’s proxy equity in Asia.

We’re watching a global reallocation into Bitcoin-backed equity exposure, digital treasuries, and state reserves.

Meanwhile, America’s biggest banks—JPMorgan, Citigroup, Wells Fargo—are quietly huddling up to challenge the $245B stablecoin market. Why? Because they know the GENIUS Act just opened the stablecoin floodgates. A digital dollar framework disguised as “freedom,” backed by a system that keeps yield for the issuer—not the consumer.

It’s not reform. It’s rollover. The entire thing is a debt-based Ponzi scheme, built to capture your savings, extract your yield, and let someone else buy Bitcoin with the money you thought you owned.

This Week in Macro

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Let’s talk about the collapse, shall we?

Moody’s downgraded the U.S. credit rating from Aaa to Aa1. The IMF is ringing alarm bells over the U.S. budget deficit. The 20-year Treasury bond auction failed—demand was so weak the government had to sell debt at a discount, pushing yields higher than anyone expected.

U.S. 30-year Treasury yields hit 5.02%. Japan’s 30-year yield hit its highest level in history at 3.15%. The debt bubble is popping on both sides of the Pacific.

Japan now holds $1.1 trillion in U.S. debt—making it America’s biggest foreign creditor. And their prime minister just said the situation is “worse than Greece.” That’s not a footnote. That’s an obituary.

The U.S. Congress, meanwhile, just passed what I call the Big Beautiful Bill—a trillion-dollar stimulus package disguised as patriotism. $4.5 trillion in tax cuts. $220B in new spending. $150B for missiles, drones, war infrastructure. $70B to militarize the southern border. All funded by cutting Medicaid and food stamps.

This is the next phase of engineered GDP growth through war, bailouts, and inflation. A system where growth equals death and profit equals destruction.

And that’s why Bitcoin is climbing. Not just because of halvings or ETFs. But because the macro story is screaming one thing: get out while you still can.

This Week in Geopolitics

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South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa visited the White House this week. But this wasn’t diplomacy. It was another installment of the U.S. humiliation ritual. The photo op. The press kit. The handshake. It’s all theatre—meant to remind Global South leaders who’s boss, right before the empire collapses under its own hypocrisy.

Meanwhile, Israel continues its genocidal siege of Gaza. Over 600 days of state-sanctioned extermination—openly supported by the U.S. and its military-industrial beneficiaries.

But something shifted this week. The U.S. is no longer trying to hide its role—it’s celebrating it. They’re defending genocide in Congress with standing ovations while simultaneously accusing South Africa of genocide for daring to expose it. That’s not just gaslighting. That’s a psychological operation designed to shatter collective sanity.

And it’s working. Civil unrest is being engineered across the West. Economic pressure, racial division, religious provocation, media chaos. It’s the same colonial playbook they used in the Middle East, now deployed across the U.S., UK, and EU.

We’re seeing political violence on demand. Flag-baiting false flags. “Free Palestine” shooters in D.C., racial tension in South Africa, clampdowns on protests, deportations, digital surveillance—all boiling toward manufactured chaos.

This isn’t reaction. It’s design. And it’s all being done to accelerate regime change, normalize nuclear negotiations with Iran, and quietly finalize the next chapter of the China-GCC power pivot.

All roads lead to the Multipolar World Order. You just have to zoom out.

Final Thoughts

Bitcoin isn’t just breaking all-time highs. It’s becoming the measurement tool for a world losing grip on reality.

The fiat system is gone—it just hasn’t admitted it yet. What we’re witnessing is the end of empire, repackaged as “economic resilience,” and Bitcoin is the only asset with enough clarity, neutrality, and programmability to survive it.

If you still think we’re in a monetary cycle, you’re already behind. This is a civilizational reset—and the question isn’t whether Bitcoin will be part of it. The question is whether you’ll be on the inside looking out, or on the outside getting crushed.

Stack responsibly. Self-custody. And tune out the noise.

Because the theatre is collapsing. But the signal is just beginning.

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