TD₿: Changing World Order: Reserve Currency Tradeoffs, Trade Deficits & U.S. Hegemony Shift - (a Coin Stories video) with Natalie Brunell and Lyn Alden
TL:DR: How Bitcoin is reshaping the global financial system, the U.S. dollar’s reserve status, persistent trade deficits, the economic toll on America's working class and the future of manufacturing.
Hey Bitcoiners,
The global reserve currency status of the U.S. dollar has created deep structural imbalances in the American economy. While it empowers sectors like finance, tech, and government—boosting Wall Street and coastal elites—it has hollowed out America's industrial base, harming manufacturing towns and the working class.
In today’s video, Natalie Brunell and Lyn Alden dive discuss how trade deficits have become a permanent feature of the system, propping up the dollar while outsourcing lower-margin industries abroad. Efforts like tariffs to reshore manufacturing run into the hard reality that the dollar’s role in the global system is inherently linked to those deficits. True realignment would likely require a gradual shift toward a multipolar currency world and the elevation of neutral reserve assets like gold—and potentially Bitcoin—rather than a simple policy fix.
In this transitional environment, volatility is expected across markets. Bitcoin, while still small and volatile relative to traditional assets, is positioned to benefit over the long term as a neutral, decentralized settlement network amid global realignments. Industrial reshoring, if it happens, would be highly automated and favor skilled blue-collar work rather than mass factory jobs.
Meanwhile, the U.S. faces hard trade-offs: continuing the status quo risks greater economic and political fractures, while rebalancing means short-term pain, including potential financial market weakness. Navigating this shift requires nuanced understanding rather than political soundbites, as the economic structures at play have been building for over half a century.
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Metaplanet Bitcoin Holdings Top $400M After 330 BTC Purchase, Up 119% YTD
Japanese investment firm Metaplanet boosted its Bitcoin holdings to over $400 million after purchasing 330 BTC for $28.2 million at an average price of $85,605 per coin. The firm now holds 4,855 Bitcoin, making it Asia’s largest and the world’s 10th-largest corporate Bitcoin holder.
Metaplanet’s Bitcoin yield has surged over 119% year-to-date, supported by strategic bond issuances to fund additional purchases. Analysts note that the growing institutional involvement, including firms like Metaplanet and Tether, is helping to accelerate Bitcoin’s four-year market cycle.
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