Max Keiser: Bitcoin’s ‘Self-Settlement’ Is A Revolution Against Dollar
Bitcoin (BTC) beats both fiat currency and gold because it does not need settlement, RT host Max Keiser has said. Max Keiser: Bitcoin’s ‘Self-Settlement’ Is A Revolution Against Dollar
In the latest episode of the network’s Keiser Report on Nov. 7, the well-known Bitcoin bull explained that other forms of transactions need settlement time, but Bitcoin does not.
Keiser: BTC “Uniquely Self-settling”
This is because, in Bitcoin, the transaction and settlement are inseparable from one another. Moving BTC between wallets simply means updating a ledger, which implies instantaneous settlement as miners confirm the transactions.
“There’s a lot of friction, both in paper and in gold. Bitcoin, uniquely, is self-settling — the transaction is the settlement. When the transaction hits, it settles,” Keiser summarized.
The episode appeared as governments supporting paper fiat with digital versions of national currencies continue to form a major talking point worldwide.
As Cointelegraph reported, China looks to be the first state to issue a digital yuan, while other central banks are eyeing the possibility, including the European Central Bank, or ECB.
While digital transactions would cut both costs and settlement times, such currencies’ relationship to the fiat system ultimately makes them political tools — with Keiser pointing the “weaponization” of the U.S. dollar for sanctions — and subject to censorship as well as other centralization pitfalls.
Anti-Bitcoin Congressman “doesn’t understand he’s lost”
Keiser meanwhile also criticized U.S. congressman Brad Sherman, the notorious Bitcoin critic who continues to argue for an outright ban on cryptocurrency.
“Brad Sherman is going to a gunfight with a knife, he has failed to take on board exactly what the dimension of this battle is going to be,” he said. Keiser added:
“He Doesn’t Understand He’s Already Lost.”
Updated: 8-10-2020
‘Capital Flight out of Asia Is Taking Bitcoin Express’ Says Max Keiser
Bitcoin is one of the few ways to move an entire fortune abroad, Bitcoin bull Max Keiser says.
Capital flight out of Asia is one of major reasons for Bitcoin (BTC) hitting new 2020 highs in August, a major Bitcoin advocate believes.
Max Keiser, a famous American broadcaster and known Bitcoin bull, is confident that rising tensions in Asia are one of factors for Bitcoin’s rally up to $12,000.
“You can’t take it with you, unless it’s Bitcoin”
In an Aug. 10 tweet, Keiser argued that Bitcoin is a solid method to move big amounts of money abroad while crossing borders. According to Keiser, a number of people in Asia are using Bitcoin to move their money out of the continent as geopolitical tensions risk affecting markets. “Capital flight out of Asia taking the Bitcoin express,” Keiser wrote.
Comparing Bitcoin to gold — one of the world’s most popular safe-haven assets, Keiser argued that Bitcoin is one of the few ways to move a fortune abroad. Keiser said, “You can’t take it with you, unless it’s Bitcoin – then you can take IT ALL with you. (Something near impossible with gold).” The news comes amid reports of Chinese citizens illegally crossing into the United States with $28,000 worth of gold bars.
Security law triggers Hong Kong to dump gold for “something else”
While Keiser did not clarify exactly which situation he was referring to, the Financial Times reported on Aug. 7 that Hong Kong’s wealthy are moving large amounts of their gold out of the financial hub after Beijing imposed a new national security law on the city in July 2020.
Joshua Rotbart, head of J Rotbart & Co, a Hong Kong-based gold dealer and storage provider, reportedly said that after the national security law was passed, there could be “immediate response from Hong Kong residents” asking to store gold “somewhere else.”
Earlier in July, Cointelegraph reported that major global banks like Credit Suisse and HSBC were limiting services to Hong Kong clients amid the ongoing protests over China-backed national security law.
Last week, another Bitcoin bull, Anthony “Pomp” Pompliano, predicted that Bitcoin will eventually become a bigger market than gold thanks to its superior digital nature.
Updated: 9-22-2020
Earth Needs Bitcoin As Economy Hits ‘Debt Saturation Point’ — Keiser
Earth is reaching a historic “inflection point,” Keiser warns after Singapore’s central bank admits that more debt is not an option for anyone.
The world now has so much debt that, for the first time ever, it is impossible to add more, says Max Keiser.
On the latest edition of his Keiser Report TV show on Sep. 22, the RT host warned that central banks were responsible for global debt reaching a new “inflection point.”
Keiser On Debt: “We’re At Saturation Point”
Together with co-host Stacy Herbert, Keiser referred to comments from Singapore’s central bank, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), which last week warned that copying economic recovery methods after World War Two would not work in 2020.
Central banks worldwide have intervened in markets, buying equities and other assets in a highly controversial move designed to limit the economic impact of Covid-19 and its lockdowns.
“First, it’s quite obvious that you can’t keep increasing your debts,” MAS chairman Tharman Shanmugaratnam said.
“But I don’t believe that the new higher levels of debt that many countries are now moving towards are going to be sustainable without imposing significant costs on growth as well as equity within their societies.”
The United States’ national debt alone has ballooned to $26.7 trillion this year, up $4 trillion since June 2019.
“There is no capacity for the Earth’s economy to carry any more debt; we’re at the saturation point,” Keiser summarized.
Regarding the consequences for increasingly indebted countries, he said that ordinary consumers would simply foot the bill from now on:
“Now, every dollar that these central banks print will go directly into consumer price index inflation — and you’ll see it at the cash register immediately, and that’s going to incredible social unrest[.]”
In the 1940s, states which had built up debts from combat were able to inflate them away. This time, Herbert said, there were so many insignificant gig economy jobs that wages would not follow price rises, leading to the kind of gap between the elite and the rest of society that Keiser has termed “neo-feudalism.”
Microstrategy And Bitcoin Low-Time-Preference Business
Keiser has long championed Bitcoin (BTC) as an escape route from the knock-on effects of fiat inflation.
With its fixed, unalterable emission and decentralized network, Bitcoin represents the antithesis of centrally-controlled money.
BTC/USD has shown to rise in step with central banks’ inflating balance sheets, but remains susceptible to U.S. dollar performance, Cointelegraph reported.
“Bitcoin, like Gold, is inversely correlated to the USD — *not* the stock market,” Keiser pointed out on Sep 22. “Don’t be fooled by randomness.”
Beyond its technical prowess, Bitcoin also promotes so-called low-time-preference living — saving money, safe in the knowledge that its value will not be inflated away over time.
As Saifedean Ammous explains in his popular book, “The Bitcoin Standard,” this ultimately allows for better and quicker advancement of society in time than simply spending money as quickly as possible on as much as possible.
Keiser and Herbert noted that MicroStrategy’s decision to put over $400 million of cash reserves into Bitcoin was proof of the low-time-preference mindset encroaching on big business.
Other governments looking to undermine U.S. dollar supremacy should thus open up their access to Bitcoin and make it part of their reserves. Rumors have long swirled around Russia, in particular, buying up large amounts of Bitcoin in the face of international sanctions.
Update: 10-15-2020
Governments And Banks Are The Only Winners With Fiat Currency, Says Max Keiser
His doom and gloom comments continue to roll in for global currencies.
Using the analogy of a Hi/Lo poker game — a variety of poker which crowns the highest and lowest hands as victors — broadcaster Max Keiser explained citizens will ultimately lose when it comes to holding government-issued currencies.
“Unless you’re a country, that can make money by debasing your currency, by getting kickbacks from Wall Street who packages all those currencies in the form of negative rate interest-rate bonds, then you only have one choice,” Keiser said during an Oct. 15 episode of his show, the Keiser Report, adding:
“You can only try to win the hand with the high hand: gold, silver and Bitcoin. You can’t win playing the low hand unless you’re a sovereign state or a major investment bank, and that’s the game today.”
“The forex market, the paper-money pushers, the sovereign currencies — they’re all trying to, quote ‘stoke inflation,’ but we know that’s false,” Keiser explained. “They’re trying to debase their currency to boost exports at the expense of everybody else at the poker table, the geopolitical game. […] The question is — who will have the worst currency going forward?”
Only governments and banks can win the low hand option, according to Keiser. Small players have another route, however — winning the high hand by owning gold, silver and Bitcoin (BTC). People often look to this trio of assets for inflation protection, and as hedges against other economic conditions.
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