The eagle-eyed among you will notice a preponderance of material focusing on both the current broad economic turmoil and the looming BTC halving. These zeitgeist moments deserve research and reflection. The dollar’s path to global dominance and its role in the unbridled monetary expansion of recent decades also receives some attention.

Picks of the Week

This deep dive economic report by Raoul Paul and this excellent podcast outlining the rise and probable fall of the dollars global reserve status. Also very hard to look past this discussion of the pivotal economic event of 1971 – hint – it involved gold. Also worth your attention – this short contextualization of the BTC halving.

Twitter

A thread focusing on the ‘big picture’ (recommended):
https://twitter.com/ColeGarnerBTC/status/1252793549508112385

BTC is a vote – consider using it:
https://twitter.com/twobitidiot/status/1249818580029407238

BTC fees matter:
https://twitter.com/ColinTCrypto/status/1250081848182607872

DeFi has some evident security issues:
https://twitter.com/CamiRusso/status/1251921338455019521

Will commodities be spared oil’s fate – probably not (highly recommended):
https://twitter.com/RaoulGMI/status/1252396835202715655

Dissecting the recent BNB token burn:
https://twitter.com/lawmaster/status/1251369898766290945

What does the world look like as we combine deflationary “dollarization” with massive money printing (highly recommended):
https://twitter.com/AriDavidPaul/status/1252650264265449475

Bonds are safe, right? Right?:
https://twitter.com/CaitlinLong_/status/1252426097448194050

Articles

A wide-ranging and insightful report on where to next for markets – Bitcoin included – requires email verification to access (highly recommended):
https://twitter.com/RealVision/status/1253433996723187712

So what is the halving and what does it really represent? (recommended):
https://medium.com/hackernoon/the-halving-or-halvening-6725a4ec1e35

A call to secure your BTC:
https://www.ministryofnodes.com.au/2020/04/16/get-your-bitcoin-off-the-exchange/

Money is losing its meaning:
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-04-15/money-has-no-meaning-anymore

A deep dive into China’s looming central bank issue digital currency model (recommended):
https://medium.com/@hashkeyhub/a-full-analysis-of-dc-ep-d5fc51fe4335

Don’t worry be happy (wit money printing):
https://www.coindesk.com/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-money-printer

Podcasts

A treasure trove of insights into the rise and likely fall of the dollar’s global reserve status (highly recommended):

1971 was a pivotal year – here’s why (highly recommended):

Do yourself a favour and look beyond the looming BTC halving:

YouTube

Putting the halving into much needed perspective (recommended):

Andreas Antonopoulos discusses BTC’s halving:

Halving – what of it?

Will high BTC fees benefit Alts?:

Is Libra 2.0 flying under the radar? (recommended):

Oil futures trading below zero…Come again?:

The interest rate trap (highly recommended):

Infographics

The BTC cycle:

https://twitter.com/Breedlove22/status/1251309365337960452/photo/1

Tether circulation in Eth showing truly epic growth:

https://twitter.com/AlexSaundersAU/status/1249219368631689217/photo/1

Funds not SAFU (though since returned):

Website / Utility

Tracking BTC issuance/supply:

Crypto is many things – boring is not one of them! Until next we meet down the rabbit hole.

Note on Sources:

Twitter & Reddit (cryptos current meta-brains) / Medium / Trybe / Hackernoon / Whaleshares / TIMM and so on/ YouTube / various podcasts and whatever else I stumble upon. The aim is a useful weekly aggregator of ideas rather than news. Though I try to keep the sources current – I’ll reference these articles and podcasts etc. as I encounter them – they may have been published just a couple of days ago or in some cases quite a bit earlier.