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Bitcoin Is the Real Safe Haven as the Dollar System Cracks

Justin Bechler
/1 days ago
As gold soars and Treasuries falter, global trust in the dollar system is eroding. Central banks are moving to gold, but it’s slow, opaque, and outdated. Bitcoin offers a scalable, auditable, and trustless alternative. As the old system fractures, Bitcoin is emerging as the true long-term solution.

Bitcoin was made for exactly what we’re seeing right now. 

Gold is ripping, Treasuries are buckling, and central banks are slipping out the back door of the dollar system. The safe haven is failing.

What happens next? 🧵👇

Gold just broke $3,300. That’s a 39% rise in a year.

U.S. Treasuries are starting to behave more like junk debt than a safe haven, and central banks aren’t waiting around to see how it ends. They’re unloading bonds and shifting into gold.

This is a fracture in the system. The dollar was weaponized through sanctions, reserve freezes and SWIFT blacklisting and the message to the rest of the world was loud and clear. Now 30 countries are repatriating gold and 45 are trading outside USD.

When the US announced tariffs on April 2, yields dropped like you’d expect during stress. Then the carve-out for China was added and suddenly yields spiked. If Treasuries were a safe haven, that wouldn’t happen. That’s a credibility crisis.

BRICS don’t trust each other’s fiat and they definitely don’t trust the dollar, so they’re settling in gold for now. But that’s not a long-term solution. Gold clears slowly, custody is a nightmare and settlement isn’t scalable. China and Russia are already using Bitcoin.

Central banks are still clinging to the idea that they can exit the dollar without leaving the legacy system, which is why they’re buying gold instead of Bitcoin. But gold still needs everything Bitcoin doesn't: clearing, physical storage and intermediaries.

No audit for Fort Knox in over 60 years while Bitcoin is fully auditable in real time.

China might be hiding more gold than the US owns, but if a monetary system relies on who holds the most gold, then it’s just another version of the old game. Bitcoin doesn’t care.

Gold helps governments step away from the dollar but it doesn’t solve the problem, it just delays it. 

Bitcoin completely removes trust, politics and permission from the equation and that’s why it's the replacement.

If you understand why gold is rising and why the dollar is breaking, then you’re already halfway to understanding Bitcoin. Study it. Own it. 

The system is losing legitimacy and there won’t be a second chance to front-run what’s coming.

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