TD₿: From Gold to Bitcoin: How to Survive the Market Crash of 2025 - (a Swan original video) with Hurley
TL;DR: Trade wars. Bond collapse. Post-dollar whispers. Luke Gromen on gold, Bitcoin, and the flight to hard assets—plus a key signal from Treasury Secretary Bessent.
Hey Bitcoiners,
In today’s video, Hurley covers how U.S.-China trade tensions have triggered a market crash, with the S&P 500 suffering its worst week since March 2020 and Bitcoin dropping sharply after briefly touching $88K. As tariffs spike and nations scramble to realign trade deals, analysts like Luke Gromen suggest the real agenda may be a global currency reset.
The Trump administration is openly acknowledging the Triffin Dilemma—the unsustainable burden of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency—hinting at moves like revaluing gold or devaluing the dollar to restore trade balance and avoid systemic collapse.
Meanwhile, capital is fleeing to hard assets. Gold is surging, and Bitcoin—though still correlated with tech stocks—is gaining recognition as a neutral, energy-linked reserve asset. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent highlighted massive gold flows into the U.S. and acknowledged Bitcoin’s growing role as a store of value.
As global capital seeks safety, the stage is set for a shift from speculative growth assets to scarcity-based ones, with Bitcoin and gold emerging as the twin pillars of the next financial era.
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UX/UI Designer for Bitcredit Wallet (Cashu Extension)
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About Bitcredit Protocol
Bitcredit Protocol is a community-driven open source project aiming to unlock Bitcoin mass adoption via businesses in the real economy. We are building the missing credit money layer (M1) on top of Bitcoin's fixed base money layer (M0) on mainchain (L1).
The wholesale part of Bitcredit Protocol — Bitcredit Core, the reference client for electronic bills of exchange — is already available and in alpha testing.
Next is the retail part — Bitcredit Wallet, the reference client integrating Bitcoin M0 and M1 ecash for end users. Building on Cashu, this needs a top-grade wallet front-end with a focus on seamless UX and a highly professional feel.
About the Position
This is for a highly skilled UX/UI Designer to reimagine the current Cashu UX for integrated credit and debit money: ecash balances, management and payment flows (unchain, lightning und unchain).
You’ll work closely with the product manager, the front-end developer and the UX tester to deliver a wallet design that aligns with the Bitcoin ethos: it must be simple, elegant, smooth, and private while signalling, corporate grade solidity and reliability.
This is not building fintech or hacking, it is creating an indispensable infrastructure for all.
Requirements
3+ years experience designing mobile and web interfaces, ideally in Bitcoin
Intuitive understanding of modern, mobile-first user experience design
Proven experience with Figma and similar tools
A clean portfolio showing your relevant UI/UX work
A strong sense of elegance, layouts, and minimalism
A personal conviction for Bitcoin, as a true medium of exchange
Responsibilities
Adapt Cashu patterns for the duality of credit money and outright bitcoin
Streamline the Cashu UI/UX for Bitcredit specifics from ground up
Define layout, visual hierarchy, and interactions for intuitive, smooth flows
Collaborate closely with product, development and testing
Qualifications
Education:
Degree in Design, Human-Computer-Interfaces, or equivalent practical experience
Technical Skills
Mastery of modern mobile UX/UI best practices and design systems
Experience with design for wallets and apps, especially Bitcoin, Lightning, or Ecash
Ability to design for privacy, simplicity, mobile, and offline use
Soft Skills
Self-directed, logical thinker
Excellent communication skills to bridge between different disciplines
Strong appreciation for user sovereignty and Bitcoin-native design
Why Join Bitcredit Protocol?
Bitcredit is Bitcoin’s next frontier: adoption by real businesses, workers earning and spending Bitcoin, not fiat. You’ll be helping to build the monetary layer that enables peer-to-peer credit on Bitcoin — decentralised, secure, and independent of fiat rails.
Work remotely or at our Vienna Lab; we value results over structures. Compensation is flexible in Euro fiat money or Bitcoin, participation in the project’s success is possible for the best candidates.
How to Apply
Please send your portfolio (Figma, live links, or GitHub), and a short note explaining why this project speaks to you.
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