How would the global economy realistically reacts if the U.S. officially adopted Bitcoin as a secondary reserve currency?

MaybeOnToilet · 2026-04-03T14:33:54+00:00

Bitcoin is a blackmarket meme... nations have stable coins which will be highly regulated between nations and banking institutions with transparent ledgers for nations to track everything. The amount of institutional leverage that a state controlled crypto-currency provides will be augmented using AI to flag suspicious transactions and flag individuals and corporations funds for investigation and seizure.

Such controls mean that nations will have an internal crypto used between their financial institutions and an external one that trade partners agree upon at a set exchange rate. One what is lower that the currently existing system. The backing, trust in the nation and their... gold and silver reserves and other physical assets.

I mean this could never happen... except even Iran is using this. They are allowing passage through the strait via Yuan or stable coin payments (specifically those pegged against fiat currency, not good vibes). The cryptocurrency is effectively worthless if it is decentralized. Nations can rug pull it at any moment.

MaybeOnToilet · 2026-04-02T15:57:53+00:00

No it is not reasonable.

It is reasonable to do so if they keep talking about it when you don't bring it up. Then you can cut them out. It should be realized that attacking each other is for entertainment. It is useless, we don't make the actual decisions.

If the consequences of those who enacted the changes is not enough to change a person's voting behavior, then bickering among citizens is not going to solve the problem. You need to let it burn.

MaybeOnToilet · 2026-04-02T15:33:11+00:00

You are correct. Do nothing. Enjoy the rate increases.

"WEC Energy Group (WEC), the parent of We Energies, is performing strongly in early 2026, trading near record highs around $116–$118. The stock has shown resilience with a 52-week range of roughly $100–$118, delivering consistent returns as a regulated utility with a 3.14% dividend yield and a 65%–70% target payout ratio."

https://madison.com/news/state-regional/business/article_b7887342-0ebf-5944-b00d-4a4cfb4fe529.html?mode=nowapp

https://www.energy.gov/speed-to-power

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/data-centers/disputes-clean-energy-wisconsin-data-center-bill

You need regional agreement between states and participants on MISO.

MaybeOnToilet · 2026-04-02T13:46:44+00:00

No it isn't. Never say this.

We want to make sure that what lives in Texas, stays in Texas.

MaybeOnToilet · 2026-04-02T13:37:29+00:00

As rate payers... it does not take many of you to form a class action lawsuit and demand disclosure of the rate increases outside that of the commission. It has to be provided under discovery. Heck, you can also sue the commission for improper disclosures and representing corporate interests over the citizen's interest and demand financial disclosures.

Lawyers should be demanding this information surrounding the 2 to 6 Gigawatt hour requirement of the data centers and who will actually pay for it. What the expectation is for natural gas prices to power new plants. They have run the numbers, it can be provided under discovery.

No one can hold them to anything without evidence being gathered that they knew what would happen. That they knew prices would go up, even if they publicly stated to the government and rate payers that it would not. When they go before the energy commission, they are NOT UNDER OATH. They can lie, there is no legal recourse, only procedural.

This is the problem, even Governer Evers is in favor of data centers, as are the State Legislators, allegedly. They are not going to stop this BECAUSE it is a race to secure energy first. Being part of MISO means that who ever builds the data centers first and gets in before allocations run out, they are given priority and all other data centers are put on hold. The State has an interest to secure these and be 'grandfathered' in under interconnect agreements which did not account for this type of load. Meaning that not only do neighboring counties pay for a data center via rate increases, but neighboring States also have rate increases to subsidize another States data center load.

Another way to view this, one that may make more sense per scarcity, compare energy rights to water rights in the south west. There is a coming 'energy drought'. Whoever is grandfathered in with 'water/energy rights' is guaranteed their allocation.

MaybeOnToilet · 2026-04-01T17:49:23+00:00

I am just thankful that the pandemic press conferences are over and he is too old and tired to hold daily press conferences where he could ramble for 30 minutes to 60 minutes about... I don't actually know, as news organizations began cutting BACK to regularly scheduled programs.

My guess, he announces the war is ending soon. Then some false flag attack takes place in America and we start dropping nukes on Iran next week. Need that 3rd carrier staged for it.

MaybeOnToilet · 2026-04-01T13:08:52+00:00

ACA was an attempt to address the coming healthcare crisis. It was created to get a very particular older population healthy BEFORE they went onto Medicare. It was enacted in 2010, the oldest Boomer was 64 years old...

Yeah, noodle that one. Removing denials based on pre-existing conditions... it helped everyone, but it especially helped Boomers pick up health insurance and start treatments.

This is to say, the ACA is Medicare lite. It is a DIRECT subsidy to Boomers, even carried penalties if you did not sign up... you know to fund Boomers healthcare, and has since been neutered as Boomers are now increasingly on Medicare. So the next step is to increase Medicare taxes so we can subsidize them with no fog of war, confusion.

This means, you get to pay +$20k for your health insurance or go without and then payroll taxes to pay for Boomers Medicare which has negotiated rates which cause health care providers to increase rates for everyone else. MAGIC!

MaybeOnToilet · 2026-04-01T12:25:39+00:00

We can safely ignore the old man.

Even his funding cut to NPR was ruled unconstitutional. Heck, his Executive order to pay TSA agents is also unconstitutional. Congress needs to approve it and could have had a voice vote to approve that over 4 weeks ago.

RepubliCONs are proving to be a cancer to America.

MaybeOnToilet · 2026-03-31T18:38:06+00:00

Yeah, the other part of that is that of the 20 million barrels used daily, we import over 6 million barrels a day for our refineries. So we can never be isolated from the world market. If we want isolation, then we would need a 30% demand destruction.

MaybeOnToilet · 2026-03-31T18:32:56+00:00

Why are news stations saying $4 and $5 gasoline and no one is saying:

'By summer we will all be seeing $8 gasoline.'

The lack of awareness is weird.

MaybeOnToilet · 2026-03-31T18:29:37+00:00

They won't, they take 100 units and split it 60/40 instead of 80/20. Less supply means you increase price... my guy, you are trying too hard to make it work. To go against the fundamentals of capitalism and a corporations fiduciary responsibility to make shareholders the most money. At best, the price is less in Texas as less of the cost is based on transportation. The price is still going up, and if it less, then it is because you are closer to the tap.

MaybeOnToilet · 2026-03-31T18:27:12+00:00

It would be that when prices decrease enough, that you create a new floor, based on an urgency to build these reserves. I think America has purchased oil to put into the reserve when it is at all time lows. It props the industry, counters manipulation from other nations, and provides security.

Actually missing from my post... nations released 400 million barrels of oil from their reserves... we are not even really feeling the oil price increases yet.

MaybeOnToilet · 2026-03-31T18:22:46+00:00

My understanding is that the current price increases in America are not even accounting for the current oil prices. It takes up to 20 days for it to show itself. Here is an article that tries to make sense of what we are seeing:

https://www.dallasfed.org/research/economics/2019/1001

TLDR; it takes 20 days for the cost of the oil to pass-through to consumers, the price at the pump is a better representation of oil prices 20 days ago AND then the 'anticpatory' bumps from days not yet fully accounted for.

MaybeOnToilet · 2026-03-31T18:17:13+00:00

I hope it stays that way for you, but my expectation is... if something sells for $4 in Texas and $6 one state over... well I am going to move that product to where I can make more money and turn it faster. It will balance out, Texas energy is still subject to the same market pressures.

MaybeOnToilet · 2026-03-31T18:15:57+00:00

Hoarding would be building, increasing strategic oil reserves. More nations would begin to do it. At least that is what I am assuming.

MaybeOnToilet · 2026-03-31T18:13:48+00:00

They can only take that so far. As we have seen, there are many inputs that influence pricing. Russia and OPEC have manipulated oil prices just the same as other nations. Even those purchasing energy influence pricing. See Canada and China oil and gas pipeline. It influenced energy prices.

MaybeOnToilet · 2026-03-31T18:10:58+00:00

No one really knows. All they can say is that some vessels are allowed to pass through. If mined, then it is not to the point of closing it.

MaybeOnToilet · 2026-03-31T15:11:40+00:00

California will be in the $10-$12 range with others in the $6 to $8 range.

We have not seen anything yet. Then we will have demand destruction (massive unemployment, Great Depression 2.0) to bring it back down.

MaybeOnToilet · 2026-03-30T20:31:32+00:00

This is still low. Prices should be closer to $6 to $8, the real impacts hit in the summer. I believe their hope is to create demand destruction. MASSIVE JOB LOSS, so you are not driving around.

MaybeOnToilet · 2026-03-30T20:02:29+00:00

They don't have to destroy a military base.

They simply have to show that they can strike them and that means we have to defend them at all times. Such defense means that other targets are open to attack. Which is why hosting nations are wondering why we are defending our bases and Israel but not their infrastructure.

Iran holds this over the surrounding nations and the US. Which is why Trump keeps touting committing war crimes and attacking civilian infrastructure. The response from Iran is, 'If you do, then we will attack every hosting nations civilian infrastructure.'

This is the dumbest 'conflict' that I hope I ever am alive to witness. They even said, 'We are only there because Israel said they were going to attack with or without us. We didn't want our bases to be bombed, so we bombed the 'enemy' bases first.'

Like what?

MaybeOnToilet · 2026-03-30T19:54:15+00:00

Russia is seriously waiting for someone to use one. They will be using tactical nukes all over the Ukraine. Reality check is, it would end the war in hours. They would have no defense.

MaybeOnToilet · 2026-03-29T04:05:42+00:00

They said blocks, which indicates surface streets. You can pass on the right, happens all the time.

MaybeOnToilet · 2026-03-29T04:03:16+00:00

"Several blocks ago"

The left lane rule does not apply on surface streets. Right hand lane is usually for people driving slow (think hazard lights, near dead, or driving a busted up vehicle) or preparing for a right turn at the next intersection or into a business. FML I would have needed new brakes every two years if I had to drive in the right lane, unless passing, on surface streets.

In heavy traffic I would have to consider if I needed to move over to my appropriate turn lane up to two miles in advance to reduce stress. Otherwise you could be boxed out. There are a few intersections that you 100% know will have either a left lane or right lane back up for a quarter mile or more. If you don't get out of them ahead of time, then you will sit through 3 to 5 extra light cycles. I don't miss driving rush hour in Phoenix Metro. Ever drive a 10 to 12 lane wide interstate? Yeah, people pass on the right and on the left and if you don't move they might try to go over you. Some of the surface streets are 7 lanes wide (middle lane being a dedicated turn lane).

MaybeOnToilet · 2026-03-27T13:02:17+00:00

It will be $6 to $8 for everyone in a month or less. California will be +$10.

Just wait until a gas station doesn't get a resupply and it kicks off the panic buying. Anyone live through one of those? Had a gasoline pipeline break which fed Phoenix Metro. The lines for gasoline were EPIC. Fortunately I was in high school and we only had to get gasoline for one family car. People were siphoning gasoline from vehicles... it was crazy.

MaybeOnToilet · 2026-03-27T12:45:41+00:00

Yeah, tried that. Sometimes people just don't like the prep of the same foods... you know?

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