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To: Julius Wong who wrote (165286)	11/20/2020 5:29:49 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 219712

Given that Berkshire Hathaway did not beat gold over much of my savings career, and given that BTC is artificial- / neo-gold, we have our answer

To: Julius Wong who wrote (165286)	11/20/2020 7:24:56 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 219712

my friend just discovered a good way to do financial self-surgery albeit I think shorting puts on btc should be water-is-warm fine buying calls moderately okay if I was operating the exchange I would accept deposits in physical gold and sovereign bonds, short the collateral and buy more bitcoins as inventory folks are willing to transact at ~ 717 / 850 per coin call at strike 60,000 expiration June 2021 put at 216 / 314 strike 8,000 volatility skew massively to the upside - so the market spoke buy buy buy deribit.com

To: Julius Wong who wrote (165286)	11/20/2020 8:31:10 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 219712

a coincidence that last night I was pondering what if anything I should do about my physical Au / Pt / Pd hoard bitcoin actually behaves more like stocks don't know, wait & see zerohedge.com Record Inflows To Bitcoin; Record Outflows From Gold On Wednesday, when looking at the growing decoupling between gold which has traded flat since August, and bitcoin which is about to take out its all time highs around $20,000... ... we pointed out an observation from Deutsche which said that gold was up both during periods when deflation was the dominant concern... ... and also when inflation re-emerged as the primary concern. This prompted Deutsche Bank's Jim Reid to conclude that "there also seems to be an increasing demand to use Bitcoin where Gold used to be used to hedge Dollar risk, inflation and other things." The latest weekly fund flow data confirms this, because even as bitcoin continues to rise amid a surge in institutional buying, with volumes in futures contracts exploding to an all time high... ... this was "offset" by what Bank of America calculated was the largest weekly gold fund outflow on record. And while offsetting flows between bitcoin (in) and gold (out) would make sense in the context of repositioning (as younger investors buy bitcoin and older investors sell gold), the "cross the stream" moment will kick in when both storm higher. That's the "Hedging Goldilocks" scenario laid out by BofA's Michael Hartnett, who notes that the biggest threat to the "uber-Goldilocks" base case for 2021, which as a reminder is the following... a year of vaccine not virus, a year of reopening not lockdown, a year of recovery not recession; 2021 forecast by consensus to be the "uber-Goldilocks"...consensus predicting 5.2% global GDP growth, 3.8% US GDP growth, 1.9% U.S. inflation, 1.2% US Treasury yields ... is via higher inflation and bond yields (e.g. GT10 >2%) in 2021 as supply bottlenecks in goods, services, labor fail to keep up with an unexpected surge in demand,excess debt (global debt now $277tn or 365% GDP) causes US dollar debasement,Fed desperation to prevent disorderly rise in bond yields sparks self-defeating/disorderly asset price inflation;It is here that both bitcoin and gold will be early indicators, because as Hartnett concludes, "Bitcoin >20,000, Gold >2000, DXY <90 would all be harbingers of higher volatility & yields." His advice: "hedge inflation risk via volatility, commodities, CRE, and EM."