Devin Baker

It’s far more convenient to worry about the sex life of some abstract other. But it is not, despite their claims, a matter of jealousy. It is a matter of evasion. It isn’t that Gen Z has a sex problem, it’s that we all do — whether we want to make it about loneliness or politics or whatever else is more digestible than making it about sex itself. C... See more

Is sex inherently traumatic and dangerous? Of course not. But also... of course it is. So is any other foundational part of the human experience. Love, friendship and family all come with the potential, maybe even the guarantee, of some sense of loss and devastation. Nobody gets through life unscathed. Nobody should want to.

Gold didn’t stop being gold. Art didn’t stop being art. But all of them started to generate income while retaining their role as a store of value.

Bitcoin is not an exception to this rule. It’s just next in line.

Art followed a similar path.

For centuries, it was a passion asset, a canvas-bound vault for the wealthy. Then Sotheby’s launched a financial services division.

Art-backed loans took off. And in 2024, they packaged $700 million worth of art-secured debt into investment-grade bonds.

A Rembrandt may still hang on a wall, but it now funds interest paym... See more

Yet history keeps proving that permanence eventually invites productivity.

Once there’s trust, infrastructure, and liquidity, the market always finds a way to extract productive value, even from assets originally meant just to preserve it.

The moment a store of value is secure enough to be trusted, it becomes too valuable to remain idle. It becomes a productive asset. It starts generating yield.

This multidimensional researcher-investor-builder perspective proved invaluable, enabling our collective Hivemind to compound insight toward a single mission: to help crypto happen sooner and better than it would without us.

The US is likely heading toward:

• Lower rates (circa 3%) despite near-term inflation


• More liquidity injections (US$1.5 trillion in 2026)


• Continued unconventional policy tools (Treasury QE, stable coin-driven demand)

Investment Implications

• Risk-On: favor Bitcoin, equities, and growth assets


• Watch for Fed rate cuts and monitor US Treasury bill issuanc

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Investors must prioritize tracking liquidity flows over traditional cycles, as innovative policies blur monetary/fiscal lines and reshape credit creation, with the coming of stable coins potentially shifting power toward government intermediation and liquidity growth.