Chad Akston

@JavierBlas @staunovo US is a net energy exporter. Most oil through Hormuz is from Iran to China.

Unlike the Islamic Republic, Trump doesn’t have the benefit of time. He needs to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in days or, at most, weeks or oil prices would rally. He doesn’t have months to crank up the pressure on Iran via Kharg to accept a deal. Time favours Tehran. 🧵10/10

KHARG ISLAND — a thread: Trump has talked about taking Iran's Kharg Island for 40 years. The problem? Capturing it won't shut down Iran’s entire oil export system. And thus it won't lead to Hormuz re-opening fast enough. 🧵1/10 @Opinion FREE-TO-READ: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

The Iranian women’s national football team refused to sing the anthem of the Islamic Regime. Tonight. At the opening match of the Asian Cup. In front of the entire world. So, to all liberal Western women: Watch and learn. THIS is what real feminism looks like.

@AndreasSteno The "insufficient policy response" assumptions given in the paper is quite the mistake imo, in such a scenario.. US policy responses by a united Fed/Treasury/Trump will be astronomical.. Other countries would just tag along and multiply..

In the scenario Citrini describes, the opposite of the proposed thesis will play out. When something becomes commoditized, decades of underinvestment follow - just look at Commods, which is where the term comes from. One of the worst analyses of 2026, and yet markets sold off.

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@AndreasSteno @austincampbell Aren't dems the ones blocking Trump's crypto legislation act?

@austincampbell Arent they just trying to blame weakness in Crypto on Trump? I suppose there is some merit to that by now

I have now heard from multiple crypto friendly democrats express how angry about this tweet they are. Please make sure whatever staffer just cost the Democrats hundreds of millions in money and many votes isn't being secretly paid by the R side.

@StevenBartlett Do you have some tips for how to gain confidence as a beginner?

People get stuck in their 30s because they feel too qualified to start over and too bored to stay put. 10 year of expertise becomes a golden cage. The distance between expert and beginner feels like falling off a cliff. So you stay on the plateau, slowly dying of comfort.

@AndreasSteno Their clients are anyone using compute, whether for SaaS, freelance, hobby, agents, or else. If AI replaces SaaS, software will be more abundant with chips supply as limiting factor. Nvidia still wins.

In case someone missed it, Jensens clients are software companies

Please, I am begging you, do not stop talking about Iran. This is a genocide. #IranMassacre

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@AndreasSteno The rain follows the dane

Go to Miami they said ☔️☔️☔️

@Jamie1Coutts Another issue is; if Bitcoin do upgrade and hard fork, is it still Bitcoin? Or something new? We've been through this "hard forking Bitcoin to make it better" before with BCH, BSV and so on, and the maxis were clear: "Only BTC is Bitcoin".

I used to wave away quantum computing (QC) risks to Bitcoin as far-fetched. I don’t anymore. The usual pushback goes like this: QC isn’t a threat for years, and if it is, then the whole financial system is in trouble anyway. That line of nihilistic thinking may be comforting to some, but it misses the point. Big banks aren’t sitting idle. They’re already investing in quantum research, building internal teams, partnering with QC developers, and thinking about how to harden their systems over time. They’re not “quantum-safe” today — but they’re not starting from scratch either. Bitcoin is different. It can upgrade, technically. But doing so requires slow, messy coordination across a decentralised network. There’s no risk committee, no mandate, no one who can just say “we’re switching now.” So this isn’t about panic or pretending I know the precise timelines. Maybe QC is five years away. Maybe it’s fifteen. The problem is that quantum risk is low-probability but massive-impact — and those are exactly the risks decentralised systems struggle to deal with early. Add AI into the mix, and it’s at least plausible that timelines compress rather than extend. What’s interesting is the growing gap between developer confidence and institutional behaviour. Even if developers think there’s a zero percent chance of a quantum threat in the next five years, some institutions are clearly pricing it higher. The recent decision by CLSA strategist Chris Wood to remove BTC from his widely followed portfolio due to QC risk may look like “paper hands,” but it matters. It signals that quantum risk is entering institutional risk frameworks — even if views differ widely. And those views do differ. There’s plenty of counter-evidence. Harvard’s reported decision to increase its exposure by roughly 280% shows institutional support for Bitcoin isn’t disappearing. What’s changing isn’t demand, but dispersion — my guess is that institutional alignment on how to price tail risks diverges further as the QC threat rises. It’s also plausible that Harvard’s decision had nothing to do with quantum risk at all. Falling volatility alone, consistent with their asset-allocation framework, would justify a higher weighting. There’s nuance and a lot of in-depth technical understanding, which I’m still working through. But asking these questions is reasonable. @caprioleio has been pushing on this for a while, and he’s right to challenge the shrug-it-off attitude. What is unreasonable is pretending that JPMorgan and Bitcoin face the same problem. One can prepare in advance and mandate change. The other has to convince everyone, in advance, that a future threat is worth acting on. Which brings me to the incentive problem. As Bitcoin’s price rises, confidence rises — and the willingness to push through disruptive, precautionary upgrades falls. The system feels safest exactly when it is least incentivised to prepare. Quantum risk doesn’t move with price, but the gap does.

@RaoulGMI @batsoupyum It takes us back to the hard fork discussions; BTC not good enough as-is, only this time it's a probable requirement. It's just that other chains have already solved this problem, BTC devs must act fast to not lose its position. There's no absolute constant in technology.

@batsoupyum for me its similar to the narrative around energy last cycle. But yes, it matters but its a lot more nuanced that Chris's take. I do also think that BTC devs will begin to move on this but needs to be louder

Wondering why BTC is so badly underperforming gold? It's because of this. Financial Advisors read this kind of research and keep client allocations low or zero because quantum computing is an existential threat. It's going to be a yoke around BTC's neck until this gets fixed

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