{"id":72729,"date":"2026-02-17T13:01:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T13:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=72729"},"modified":"2026-02-17T13:01:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T13:01:43","slug":"bitcoin-is-a-bet-on-trumps-success-gold-a-bet-on-americas-failure-strategist-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=72729","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Bitcoin Is A Bet On Trump&#8217;s Success, Gold A Bet On America&#8217;s Failure,&#8217; Strategist Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Wellington-Altus Chief Market Strategist <strong>James Thorne<\/strong> argues buying <strong>Bitcoin <\/strong><a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BTC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BTC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) means betting <strong>Trump\u2019s<\/strong> economic reforms succeed, while buying gold is betting America fails\u2014framing the two assets as opposing verdicts on the country\u2019s future.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Two-America Thesis<\/h3>\n<p>Thorne <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DrJStrategy\/status\/2023513890886201540\">argued<\/a> on X gold no longer functions as a simple inflation hedge.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rising gold demand reflects growing disbelief that Trump\u2019s economic program can reform an economy drowning in debt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is the old guard\u2019s confession that they see only one way out of excessive leverage: print, debase, and hope the music doesn\u2019t stop,\u201d Thorne wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Bitcoin case rests on reform. <\/p>\n<p>Trump, Treasury Secretary <strong>Bessent<\/strong>, and Fed nominee <strong>Kevin Warsh<\/strong> argue America can stop paying banks to sit on cash and redirect capital from Treasury holdings back into the productive economy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If that works, growth shrinks debt rather &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/02\/50646448\/bitcoin-is-a-bet-on-trumps-success-gold-a-bet-on-americas-failure-strategist-claims?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"'Bitcoin\" is a bet on trump success gold america failure strategist claims>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wellington-Altus Chief Market Strategist James Thorne argues buying Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) means betting Trump\u2019s economic reforms succeed, while buying gold is betting America fails\u2014framing the two assets as opposing verdicts on the country\u2019s future. The Two-America Thesis Thorne argued on X gold no longer functions as a simple inflation hedge.\u00a0 Rising gold demand reflects growing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-72729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}