Matt C
Cybersecurity Engineer, Bitcoin Background Since 2014
Gold and silver may benefit if yields ease a little further from their local high for a while longer. The FOMC meeting and minutes could be good for both. x.comÂ
Gold and bitcoin should benefit from debasement as the US government, now the least credible it has ever been, faces higher borrowing costs that make its growing debt harder to finance, leading to money printing and more inflation. Bonds' risk-free status is eroding as the 10-year signals rising inflation and Fed hikes fail to slow a hot economy or fix an energy supply shock. x.comÂ
Gold has formed a multi-year top at $5.6K and won't return there before 2030. It is in a high-timeframe distribution phase, with trillions of dollars rotating out of gold into US equities, bitcoin and Chinese equities, fueling the next risk-on environment. Silver showed a classic blow-off top, and the same applies to gold. x.comÂ
Government will never stop printing money, which should make bitcoin, gold and land do well for two decades. x.comÂ
Bitcoin benefits as the risk of creating gold through alchemy has entered public consciousness. That perceived threat to gold's scarcity supports a long Bitcoin position as a persistent theme. x.comÂ
Gold has been in distribution all of 2026 and can stay there for years, so every rally should be sold. Money is rotating elsewhere, especially into semiconductors and crypto. x.comÂ
A gold-trade unwind might be the real catalyst to send Bitcoin higher, rather than the AI-trade unwind many expect. The gold unwind is already happening: since late July, gold futures are down 0.7% while Bitcoin is up 26.5%. x.com x.comÂ
Gold is set to take off as energy-driven stagflation traps the Fed and negative real rates favor it. Today's dovish hold was likely its last chance to hike: once the AI bubble bursts, the Fed loses that option, while current debt-to-GDP rules out Volcker-style hikes without fiscal insolvency. Per Macrotrends' chart, gold rose eightfold from its 1976 low to its 1980 high, equivalent to $32,000 gold over five years in today's terms. x.com x.com x.comÂ
Gold may have already peaked for this cycle as its momentum cools and capital starts rotating out the risk curve toward bitcoin. Historically, rotation out of gold signals confidence in riskier assets, and past cycles show gold rallies, then cools, then bitcoin enters its strongest phase. x.comÂ
Gold should really get going again as the US returns to quantitative easing, while the Treasury and the FOMC now find themselves in conflict. Stocks will jump too. x.comÂ