Posted on 11/26/2025 6:58:08 AM PST by delta7
...Investors Flee as World Wakes Up to Hacking, Seizures, and the Myth of Crypto Safety.
Over the past six months, Bitcoin has seen its price tumble from highs above $120,000 to around $85,000, while gold has surged to nearly $4,100 per ounce—up over 50% year to date. This divergence perfectly reflects escalating fears: waves of bitcoin seizures, hacks, and asset forfeitures have hammered confidence in its “safe haven” and “unconfiscatable” narrative. As governmental power over digital wallets grows, investors are flocking to gold, reaffirming its historical role as the ultimate sanctuary and leaving Bitcoin in the shadow of mounting vulnerability and stress.
Meet Joe Reilly, an Alberta trucker, clutching his phone and staring at a frozen Bitcoin wallet. The news hits like black ice—his digital protest fund, powered by the “decentralized” promise of Bitcoin, has been immobilized by Justin Trudeau’s official order. What had seemed impossible was now routine: governments were seizing or rendering inert bitcoin reserves, with just a handful of keystrokes.
But Joe wasn’t alone. In late 2025, China delivered the loudest warning yet to the world: U.S. authorities had seized approximately 127,271 Bitcoin (today’s value: $15 billion) in what Beijing blasted as a state-directed heist against Chinese interests. China’s officials asserted that these coins, originally mined by LuBian—a top-tier Chinese mining pool—were stolen in December 2020 and lay dormant until a sudden flurry in June 2024, only to reappear under American control following a blockbuster Justice Department indictment against Chen Zhi, the Prince Group chairman. The indictment not only exposed one of the world’s largest cyber-fraud and forced-labor rackets but also bore a chilling detail—the bitcoin seized, now valued at $15 billion, was allegedly the very stash siphoned from Chinese and Iranian miners.
How seized bitcoin stacks up
Joe’s wallet, maybe holding just 1 Bitcoin (today $118,000), echoed a global pattern. Here are ten landmark cases, each paired with today’s market value:........
We put everything in real estate and PM in 2021. It has really worked out.
So over 5 years Silver out performs Gold.....interesting
As Trump brings back manufacturing to USA in say..solar cells etc
Industrial use of Silver will increase.
“Silver in comparison:
5 Year +28.61 +126.07%”
Bitcoin + 400%
“Gold Price Performance USD
5 Year +2,355.58 +131.83%”
Bitcoin +400%.
“If you can’t hold it, you don’t own it.”
Hidden rare coins cache
In 2014, a day laborer sold a box of 58 rare coins to a Philadelphia thrift shop for $6,000, which he said he had found while clearing out the basement of a house in New Jersey. In 2017, when the thrift shop announced they were to auction the coins and they actually valued at $2.5 million, Armstrong came forward to declare himself the rightful owner. He claimed that he had hidden the coins in his mother’s old house to take them “off the books” in anticipation of the public offering of his firm. The thrift shop sued Armstrong, asking the court to declare the thrift shop as rightful owners while Armstrong counter-sued, also seeking ownership. In 2019, the U.S. government learned about the coins and claimed them as part of the treasure hoard Armstrong had refused to hand over in 1999, and for which he had served seven years in jail for contempt. In addition to rare coins, the treasure hoard, valued at $12.9 million, included 102 gold bars, 699 gold coins, and an ancient bust of Julius Caesar.[20][21] Armstrong was deposed. According to Receiver Alan M. Cohen, Armstrong admitted hiding the coins. Armstrong’s attorneys said in a court filing that Armstrong did not make this admission. The auction house now possesses the coins and the U.S. government filed suit to take possession
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Both require effort/expense to produce, one wastes energy in production, why? To give it a “value” since energy is expensive and a barrier to production, while the other is used in many useful product, is rare by nature and can’t be artifically produced. If you could mine a Bitcoin for $5 it wouldn’t be worth much. This makes the value completely arbitrary and capricious. Govts can print money and then make all the Bitcoins they want for free, we can’t.
“No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts”.
So many of our problems are because we ignore this part of our Constitution in favor of “funny money”.
Our government is full of “mysterious projects” to quote Jefferson.
Jeremy Irons role in Margin Call said it all: money is only pieces of paper with pictures on it.
Bitcoin +400%.
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Paid in rapidly debasing dollars, ….to each his own….enjoy your ride down!
“Gold Price Performance USD”
Paid in rapidly debasing dollars, ….to each his own…
Investors FLEEced!
I have said for a real long time that the US needs a reset back to the original.
Bitcoin = monopoly money
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