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Trump Is Telling You to Own Bitcoin
Trump is talking openly about inflation reducing the debt burden. John Arnold and I walked through the machinery this morning. Bitcoin is breaking higher against gold.
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+$189.8M
Net inflow · Oct 2, 2026
2-day inflow streak+$57.8B all-time net
@TFTC21"Crude flows got back to roughly pre-war levels. A pretty big narrative violation for a lot of the doom posters." @JohnArnoldTen31 breaks down what the oil data actually shows vs what the influencers told you.
@TFTC21"I think we're early in that third century process. The worst inflation hasn't hit yet, but our policy isn't doing things it should be doing to stop it or start to reverse it." @JeremyRyanSlate on where America sits on the Roman timeline. x.com/TFTC21/status/…
@TFTC21Young investors across Africa have decided Bitcoin is "the way to move towards a better and brighter financial future for Africal," says Former federal regulator Charlene Fadirepo.
@TFTC21CFTC Chairman Mike Selig: "The CFTC is doing its part to deliver clear rules of the road for crypto asset markets with its advanced notice of proposed rulemaking on Regulation Crypto Asset Transactions and Regulation Crypto Asset Markets."
@TFTC21"If you have the ability to hit the button to print more money, push come to shove, you're gonna hit it." @JeremyRyanSlate and @MartyBent on why every empire debases its currency and why nothing's changed. x.com/TFTC21/status/…
@TFTC21CFTC Chairman Mike Selig: "The lesson from FTX’s failure should have been obvious." x.com/ChairmanSelig/…
@TFTC21Ex-Anthropic Researcher: “I think it is more likely than not that humanity loses control to these AI’s, and it could end in human extinction.”
@TFTC21"They're quietly rewriting what a dollar even is and it won't be obvious to anyone that anything happened." -@JohnArnoldTen31 We discuss: ⚡ The oil crisis that quietly reversed ⚡ Why Europe is breaking faster than 2011 ⚡ The plan to debase over default
@TFTC21CFTC Chairman Selig: "The Commodity Exchange Act has worked really well over the years. It has a very broad definition of commodity... people refer to Bitcoin and crypto as having a Lindy effect."
@TFTC21"Rome's silver coin lost 90% of its silver content in about a 200-year period." @JeremyRyanSlate breaks down the debasement blueprint that killed an empire. x.com/TFTC21/status/…
@TFTC21x.com/i/article/2107…
@TFTC21India banned BitChat. @greybtc explains why it's pointless.
@TFTC21"Crude flows got back to roughly pre-war levels. A pretty big narrative violation for a lot of the doom posters." @JohnArnoldTen31 breaks down what the oil data actually shows vs what the influencers told you.
@TFTC21"I think we're early in that third century process. The worst inflation hasn't hit yet, but our policy isn't doing things it should be doing to stop it or start to reverse it." @JeremyRyanSlate on where America sits on the Roman timeline. x.com/TFTC21/status/…
@TFTC21Young investors across Africa have decided Bitcoin is "the way to move towards a better and brighter financial future for Africal," says Former federal regulator Charlene Fadirepo.
@TFTC21CFTC Chairman Mike Selig: "The CFTC is doing its part to deliver clear rules of the road for crypto asset markets with its advanced notice of proposed rulemaking on Regulation Crypto Asset Transactions and Regulation Crypto Asset Markets."
@TFTC21"If you have the ability to hit the button to print more money, push come to shove, you're gonna hit it." @JeremyRyanSlate and @MartyBent on why every empire debases its currency and why nothing's changed. x.com/TFTC21/status/…
@TFTC21CFTC Chairman Mike Selig: "The lesson from FTX’s failure should have been obvious." x.com/ChairmanSelig/…
@TFTC21Ex-Anthropic Researcher: “I think it is more likely than not that humanity loses control to these AI’s, and it could end in human extinction.”
@TFTC21"They're quietly rewriting what a dollar even is and it won't be obvious to anyone that anything happened." -@JohnArnoldTen31 We discuss: ⚡ The oil crisis that quietly reversed ⚡ Why Europe is breaking faster than 2011 ⚡ The plan to debase over default
@TFTC21CFTC Chairman Selig: "The Commodity Exchange Act has worked really well over the years. It has a very broad definition of commodity... people refer to Bitcoin and crypto as having a Lindy effect."
@TFTC21"Rome's silver coin lost 90% of its silver content in about a 200-year period." @JeremyRyanSlate breaks down the debasement blueprint that killed an empire. x.com/TFTC21/status/…
@TFTC21x.com/i/article/2107…
@TFTC21India banned BitChat. @greybtc explains why it's pointless.
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