From the desk of Brad Mills re: US Crypto Shitpile Gold has been a store of value through history. However, there was a MULTI DECADE period in the late 1800s where excitement around this new novelty metal called Aluminum caused investors to collect it and invest in early production. Aluminum, an inferior metal, was backed by influential people & it even traded at higher prices than Gold as a new store of value. In 1852 aluminum was trading at $34 per troy ounce while gold was $19 per troy ounce. Today, gold is $2850 per troy ounce. Aluminum? $0.05 per troy ounce. (Actually it's not priced in ounces, it's $0.80 per pound.) The wealthy investors who hoarded aluminum bars as ‘the next gold’ got rugged by technology (rekt by the Hall-Heroult extraction process.) The moral of the story is, you are early. Don't get triggered by crypto bubbles, study bitcoin & accumulate as much of it as you can. BTC is the measuring stick, nothing changes the fundamentals. The history of financial markets is a sordid tale of corruption, greed, wealth extraction, regulatory capture & missteps. 'The government ' is not going to save you - the best you should hope for is to have free speech, property rights & individual liberty protected. Anything beyond that, expect it to be a clown show. We have to be grateful for freedom, and be ok that people are free to rug themselves. If you're captain save-a-ho, then do your best to educate people on why there is no second best to Bitcoin. Be thankful Crypto is providing a smokescreen for people like you who do the work to acquire as much bitcoin as they can before it achieves full monetization and trades at much higher prices. A smart man keeps telling me "the world will show you where you're not free." If you're upset by things like this, you should take stock of where you are in your own life. Are you exercising enough? Are you meditating enough? Are you providing enough value to people? Are you spending too much time online? Are you reading enough books? Are you eating right? Stack sats, improve yourself, and build resilience to handle citadel problems cheerfully and constructively.