Avatar
Tracking Token Disrespector
c558c7cc69bbda3c271782b736babc64acd2da258b14f356dbca966cb0b7b89e
Tracking token remover bot. Tracking Token are a set of code snippets that are added to URLs to track user behavior across digital marketing channels. To remove tracking tokens from URLs, copy the URL, paste it into a text editor, and delete everything after the '?' or '&' symbol.

Tether, El Salvador Deepening Ties To Gold, The 'Natural Bitcoin'

Tether, El Salvador Deepening Ties To Gold, The 'Natural Bitcoin'

https://decrypt.co/338253/tether-el-salvador-deepening-ties-to-gold-the-natural-bitcoin

Stablecoin issuer Tether has held talks on investing in gold miners and royalty firms, after already acquiring $8.7 billion worth of bullion.

Meanwhile, El Salvador bought nearly 14,000 ounces of gold for $50 million, its first central bank purchase since 1990.

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino has previously described gold as “natural Bitcoin,” and suggested in a separate interview that if a global “reset” were to occur, it would “happen in gold.”

Tether, the world’s largest https://decrypt.co/?post_type=post&p=5761

late Thursday.

%40webp.jpg?itok=0lzYqLQY

The talks reportedly span mining, refining, trading, and royalty companies, following chief executive Paolo Ardoino’s view of gold as “the natural Bitcoin.”

“I prefer to think in Bitcoin terms, and I think gold is kind of a resource of nature and is almost like the natural Bitcoin,” Ardoino https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWaHWT15sOQ

onstage at the Bitcoin 2025 conference back in May.

Tether is also moving to deepen its role in the sector, planning to spend about $100 million more to increase its previous https://decrypt.co/324867/bitcoin-gold-tether-latest-investment-dual-pillar-strategy

from Bloomberg early Friday.

"Access to capital is one of the key constraints in the royalty and streaming business; Tether’s support is fully aligned with our growth strategy," David Baker, CFO at Elemental Altus Royalties, said in a statement shared with Decrypt.

He added that, "Since their first investment in June, Tether has been very supportive of the company and management," noting that prior to the merger announcement the firm had announced almost $70 million of gold royalty acquisitions in Australia and Liberia.

Tether is already among the world’s biggest private holders of the metal.

The company https://assets.ctfassets.net/vyse88cgwfbl/2SGAAXnsb1wKByIzkhcbSx/9efa4682b3cd4c62d87a4c88ee729693/ISAE_3000R_-_Opinion_Tether_International_Financial_Figure_RC187322025BD0201.pdf

, collateralizing part of its operations.

In 2020, the firm launched Tether Gold, a gold-backed stablecoin backed by https://decrypt.co/316785/tether-gold-xaut-backed-7-tons-physical

of the precious metal, according to an April 2025 attestation report by accounting firm BDO Italia.

Tether did not immediately return Decrypt's request for comment.

El Salvador’s first gold buy in 35 years

Tether’s gold push comes as Banco Central de Reserva, El Salvador's central bank, https://x.com/bcr_sv/status/1963641452832927795

its first bullion purchase in 35 years, buying 13,999 troy ounces for $50 million, raising the country’s holdings to 58,105 ounces, worth an estimated $207 million.

The central bank characterized the purchase as a diversification play for its $4.7 billion in foreign reserves, according to a https://es-us.noticias.yahoo.com/salvador-eleva-31-reservas-oro-215307198.html

report from Agencia EFE.

El Salvador has already accumulated more than 6,200 bitcoin, now valued at over $706 million based on current prices, according to https://bitcointreasuries.net/governments/el-salvador

that it has moved its crypto holdings to new addresses, following security concerns.

These moves suggest that large sovereign Bitcoin holders, such as El Salvador, and major crypto industry names, including Tether, are beginning to frame gold as a complementary hedge, treating it less as a rival asset and more as a partner in diversification strategies.

A source working on Tether's regional expansion efforts declined to comment, citing internal policies, and instead directed Decrypt to Ardoino’s https://youtu.be/KJNnjG1XroM?si=S61N0jTnmk9VCozz&t=1813

with Anthony Pompliano in August, where he argued that gold could be viewed as a counterweight to fiat, not a rival to Bitcoin.

In the interview, Ardoino suggested traders might choose to rotate into bullion at cycle peaks, given its 6,000-year history and scale as a reserve asset.

“There is time for everything, and I think that when [...] if the world will go to hell in the next 5 years, there’s good chances that part of the reset will happen in gold,” Ardoino said.

https://cms.zerohedge.com/users/tyler-durden

Fri, 09/05/2025 - 15:45

https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/tether-el-salvador-deepening-ties-gold-natural-bitcoin

🤖 Tracking strings detected and removed!

🔗 Clean URL(s):

https://youtu.be/KJNnjG1XroM?t=1813

❌ Removed parts:

si=S61N0jTnmk9VCozz&

🤖 Tracking strings detected and removed!

🔗 Clean URL(s):

https://youtu.be/8QE78laH4sw

❌ Removed parts:

?si=-iQFDyqL2HsX8Nmv

Replying to Avatar MoneroTalk

If It Isn't PoW, It Isn't Decentralized w/ Dr. K Tune-in to a LIVE MoneroTalk episode Tonight 9/5 at 7PM-EST!

Watch here on X or on YT➡️: https://www.youtube.com/live/bRpZxxDHAiY?si=-QHjkltfC_bGOJ9a

TWITCH ➡️: twitch.tv/monerotalk

Now streaming on Rumble!➡️: rumble.com/user/monerotalk

Thank you to our show sponsors cakewallet.com / stealthex.io /

🤖 Tracking strings detected and removed!

🔗 Clean URL(s):

https://www.youtube.com/live/bRpZxxDHAiY

❌ Removed parts:

?si=-QHjkltfC_bGOJ9a

Trump Deploys F-35s To Puerto Rico Airfield After Pair Of Venezuelan Jets Buzz US Warship

Trump Deploys F-35s To Puerto Rico Airfield After Pair Of Venezuelan Jets Buzz US Warship

The Pentagon has warned Venezuela after two of its miliary aircraft buzzed a United States Navy ship in international waters, as an apparent show of force after a US naval build-up in the region.

The pair of warplanes, identified in various media as F-16 jets, flew over over the guided-missile destroyer Jason Dunham in the southern Caribbean Sea on Thursday, and while the US ship did not engage the aircraft, a subsequent Department of Defense statement called it "highly provocative" and "an attempt to interfere with our counter-narco-terror operations."

?itok=Rwfrgo1U

"Today, two Maduro regime military aircraft flew near a US Navy vessel in international waters," the Pentagon said in a post on X. "The cartel running Venezuela is strongly advised not to pursue any further effort to obstruct, deter or interfere with counter-narcotics and counter-terror operations carried out by the US military," the Pentagon said.

This was clearly President Maduro's response to Tuesday's US strike on an alleged drug trafficking speedboat in the same waters and general posture of saber-rattling. President Trump says the blown-up boat belonged to a criminal organization tied to Maduro, and the rare military action resulted in the deaths of eleven people.

However, some international monitors have noted that if those slain were civilians, this amounts to an extra-judicial killing, also given there was no apparent attempt to intercept the vessel or arrest those aboard. This is likely what's behind the sudden frequent use of the term 'narco-terrorists' by the US administration.

The sudden terror pretext and label makes it easier to justify direct military action in front of the American people, who have become generally wary of the potential for new, unnecessary wars and foreign adventurism abroad - even if in Latin America.

Maduro has ordered a heightened defense posture due to the US sending some eight naval ships, with Venezuela’s Noticias Venevision news outlet quoting him as saying it is the "first time in history that the communal units of the militia will be activated, spanning the national map from north to south, from east to west, down to the last community."

Are they gonna use this as a pretext to bomb Venezuela? https://t.co/xFWtcOIzBz

— Dave DeCamp (@DecampDave) https://twitter.com/DecampDave/status/1963804972308402583?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

But the White House is answering further by deploying even more assets near Venezuela in the dangerous environment of rising tit-for-tat tensions.

President Trump has https://www.newsweek.com/trump-deploys-f-35s-puerto-rico-war-drug-cartels-report-2124984

ten F-35 fighter jets to be deployed to Puerto Rico, the American territory and Caribbean archipelago, in what's becoming (or rather, being sold to the public) an all-out Pentagon war on drug cartels. Reports say the advanced aircraft will be in position by week's end. They will join the at least eight warships and one nuclear-powered fast attack submarine to the eastern Caribbean, which are also there.

Just ahead of this new jet deployment, Trump warned after hitting the drug boat, "Please let this serve as notice to anybody even thinking about bringing drugs into the United States of America."

What's really going on here? One trend being reflected, as we've long previewed, is that President Trump's worldview is for greater coordination of national and hemispheric defense across the Americas, hence the push for stronger economic integration between the United States and Canada, coupled with a hardened defense perimeter stretching from the Arctic to the Panama Canal. Monroe Doctrine on steroids?

But this surge in major defense assets off Venezuela's coast could also more likely be about renewing regime change efforts targeting Caracas, after some apparent failed https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/what-are-real-reasons-behind-washingtons-latest-show-force-against-venezuela

on American streets), given it had been on for past many decades, and deploying warships and stealth jets is hardly the right tool set for something the DEA and Coast Guard have conventionally done.

They are lying about Venezuela because they want regime change and to strip the country's natural resources. It's really not that complicated. They lie. About everything. https://t.co/iU4jSLRhuR

— Daniel McAdams (@DanielLMcAdams) https://twitter.com/DanielLMcAdams/status/1963703579870421262?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

There's also the question of to what degree one takes seriously the US administration's claims concerning Maduro and his socialist country's role in shipping dangerous substances into the United States. Why not a force concentration against the Mexican drug cartels instead - or at least in parallel? Of course, Mexico is not home to the world's largest known reserves of oil, as Venezuela is, and consideration of what's really going on can't happen without that key fact front and center.

https://cms.zerohedge.com/users/tyler-durden

Fri, 09/05/2025 - 14:45

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-deploys-f-35s-puerto-rico-airfield-after-pair-venezuelan-jets-buzz-us-warship

🤖 Tracking strings detected and removed!

🔗 Clean URL(s):

https://twitter.com/DecampDave/status/1963804972308402583

https://twitter.com/DanielLMcAdams/status/1963703579870421262

❌ Removed parts:

?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

🤖 Tracking strings detected and removed!

🔗 Clean URL(s):

https://youtu.be/MYD4XwD6_m4

❌ Removed parts:

?si=bnL4h1ZA-b7ABD3A

🤖 Tracking strings detected and removed!

🔗 Clean URL(s):

https://x.com/sutanmiJPN/status/625938552136675328

❌ Removed parts:

?t=fbXezeSxG_trFSk1CPqoEw&s=19

🤖 Tracking strings detected and removed!

🔗 Clean URL(s):

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOJjlJdDRX7/

❌ Removed parts:

?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

🤖 Tracking strings detected and removed!

🔗 Clean URL(s):

https://youtu.be/L1R--qzltJY

❌ Removed parts:

?si=pWyb72-0dttCLrRC

🤖 Tracking strings detected and removed!

🔗 Clean URL(s):

https://youtu.be/NdYENyiN0FI

❌ Removed parts:

?si=tgHIFdaY4sqg3Ppj

🤖 Tracking strings detected and removed!

🔗 Clean URL(s):

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLh2vPzx2oC/

❌ Removed parts:

?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

🤖 Tracking strings detected and removed!

🔗 Clean URL(s):

https://twitter.com/minaqueenu/status/1495205729812234241

❌ Removed parts:

?t=_RXi5aFsTa0Ui8BXB4iGTw&s=19

🤖 Tracking strings detected and removed!

🔗 Clean URL(s):

https://twitter.com/KezieDra/status/1533105589378850817

❌ Removed parts:

?t=KLuBzeIQc3-HpfGCAOY63w&s=19

🤖 Tracking strings detected and removed!

🔗 Clean URL(s):

https://youtu.be/_RCtDnfYPGo

❌ Removed parts:

?si=ncR2XWVSPm6dTij8

🤖 Tracking strings detected and removed!

🔗 Clean URL(s):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB4tp1lgx6M

❌ Removed parts:

&utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

🤖 Tracking strings detected and removed!

🔗 Clean URL(s):

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XZfYXdOUQBc

❌ Removed parts:

?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

EU Slaps Google With Massive €2.95 Billion Antitrust Fine

EU Slaps Google With Massive €2.95 Billion Antitrust Fine

The European Commission has slapped Google with a €2.95 billion fine for abusing its dominance in the search advertising market through "self-preferencing" practices, according to a new https://www.ft.com/content/8f8bcd37-2e39-42ac-9d6d-9a1b66a5f9f4

report. The EU ordered Google to end these behaviors within two months or risk a potential breakup. This marks one of the largest EU fines against a company, following the €4.12 billion Android fine in 2018.

EU competition chief Teresa Ribera warned Google to draw up a "serious remedy to address its conflicts of interest, and if it fails to do so, we will not hesitate to impose strong remedies."

Lee-Anne Mulholland, Google's global head of regulatory affairs, called the fine "unjustified" and said "it requires changes that will hurt thousands of European businesses by making it harder for them to make money."

?itok=tVrLNGK3

The commission's investigation began around 2021, with formal charges issued in 2023. Brussels warned back then that the only solution for Google might be breaking up its ad-tech business.

Not since US v Microsoft, filed in 1998, has Silicon Valley been so threatened.

Meanwhile, in the US, Google earlier this week avoided a breakup order after a judge ruled against forcing divestitures of Chrome or Android. Instead, Google must share more data and stop exclusive distribution deals.

"Plaintiffs Over-Reached": Alphabet Shares Soar After Judge Rules In Antitrust Case https://t.co/wpHPO05oKA

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1962978870941860086?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Even as Brussels and Washington ramp up antitrust actions against the tech giant, its New York-listed shares have gone parabolic this year.

?itok=9jRMTPoS

. . .

https://cms.zerohedge.com/users/tyler-durden

Fri, 09/05/2025 - 12:45

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/eu-slaps-google-massive-eu295-billion-antitrust-fine

🤖 Tracking strings detected and removed!

🔗 Clean URL(s):

https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1962978870941860086

❌ Removed parts:

?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

🤖 Tracking strings detected and removed!

🔗 Clean URL(s):

https://open.spotify.com/track/5gmv3BgePSYiHnPJgY7oTJ

❌ Removed parts:

?si=aM9PZW0NSwOxTPc7uxT2QQ&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A2tbXy11tUrsHG7CzjBCzgX

🤖 Tracking strings detected and removed!

🔗 Clean URL(s):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU9mxMMKZOY&list=RDwU9mxMMKZOY&start_radio=1

❌ Removed parts:

&pp=ygUSd2luZ3MgYmlyZHkgbHlyaWNzoAcB

Schiff: Trump's Wrong; "We Screw Over The World" On Trade

Schiff: Trump's Wrong; "We Screw Over The World" On Trade

Donald Trump’s tariffs split opinion—champions said they were leverage to rebuild U.S. industry, while critics argued they were hidden taxes that raised costs and invited retaliation. At last night’s ZH Debate, Cornell chemistry professor Dave Collum — fresh off his Tucker Carlson controversy — moderated as Peter Schiff and Brent Johnson squared off on trade, tariffs, and the future of the dollar.

Brent is no fan of tariffs but thinks there is some wisdom to Trump’s long-term plan and that the U.S. dollar still reigns supreme. Peter… well all ZH readers know where Peter stands.

Below were the key moments for those short on time:

Trump Has Trade Deficits Wrong

Peter Schiff argued that America’s trade deficits are misunderstood. “It’s actually the other way around,” he said, pushing back on Donald Trump’s claim that the U.S. is being taken advantage of. “We take advantage of the world. They give us goods produced at significant cost in resources, land, labor, capital… and all we do is run off dollars on a printing press, cost us nothing, and we give it to them.”

Brent Johnson responded that this imbalance is exactly what comes with America’s position. “That’s the privilege of being the hegemon as you get global.”

Schiff countered that such privilege is temporary. “It’s the privilege that we are about to lose. That’s what $3,500 gold tells you. Dollar is on the way out as the reserve currency.”

https://t.co/mgb8ovZcPy

— ZeroHedge Debates (@zerohedgeDebate) https://twitter.com/zerohedgeDebate/status/1963807086036369697?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

“I expect Powell to lose”

Brent went on record with a bold call that included something rarely seen in market commentary: timing.

He predicts — as soon as October — a 10 or 20% market downturn… perhaps welcomed by the Trump admin so they can blame the Fed and lower rates.

“To get the cover to do that, they need some pain. I don’t think they can do that right now with things the way they already are.”

“Some kind of a crisis that they blame on the Fed, and then they go back to even easier monetary policy than maybe they had last time. And that is what then gives the fuel to go much higher.”

With markets at record highs and inflation still sticky, “it’s really hard to do it now.”

Brent’s prediction: “I think Powell is pushing back a little bit. But this is the thing—I expect Powell to lose. I think Trump and Bessent are going to get control.”

https://t.co/glftJKmeJ6

— ZeroHedge Debates (@zerohedgeDebate) https://twitter.com/zerohedgeDebate/status/1963808341685076144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Watch the full debate below or listen on Spotify for more fun moments like this one…

Schiff on the world’s attitude towards the U.S. dollar once rates drop: “Shove it up your ass.”

https://t.co/WUfI9OLwqc

— ZeroHedge Debates (@zerohedgeDebate) https://twitter.com/zerohedgeDebate/status/1963809717639114943?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Full Debate (X, YT, and Spotify):

https://t.co/dhOGAvwTtX

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1963731686287450383?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

https://cms.zerohedge.com/users/tyler-durden

Fri, 09/05/2025 - 12:05

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/schiff-trumps-wrong-we-screw-over-world-trade

Replying to Avatar Danaos

https://x.com/DimitrisSavvid4/status/1963839656379687328?t=qXOZnrFg-4UgZ-RjvBoQYQ&s=19

#τεμπη #μετηΜαρια #Καρυστιανου#δεθ

🤖 Tracking strings detected and removed!

🔗 Clean URL(s):

https://x.com/DimitrisSavvid4/status/1963839656379687328

❌ Removed parts:

?t=qXOZnrFg-4UgZ-RjvBoQYQ&s=19

🤖 Tracking strings detected and removed!

🔗 Clean URL(s):

https://open.substack.com/pub/giuliocavalli/p/new-start-verso-la-scadenza-perche?showWelcomeOnShare=true

❌ Removed parts:

r=1vaky&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&

ActBlue Lawyers Subpoenaed As House GOP Investigation Into Donor Fraud Intensifies

ActBlue Lawyers Subpoenaed As House GOP Investigation Into Donor Fraud Intensifies

https://amgreatness.com/2025/09/05/actblue-lawyers-subpoenaed-as-house-gop-investigation-into-donor-fraud-intensifies/

,

Three top lawyers for the Democratic fundraising organization ActBlue have been subpoenaed by members of the House Administration, Judiciary and Oversight committees who are probing the group’s ties to alleged fraudulent donations.

?itok=w5l4gt50

The individuals who have been summoned to be deposed by House investigators include former ActBlue general counsel Darrin Hurwitz and ex-director and associate general counsel Aaron Ting as well as another anonymous ActBlue lawyer.

They have been asked to appear for depositions on Oct. 15, 21 and 28.

🚨 Our investigation into ActBlue continues.

Today, Chairmen https://twitter.com/RepBryanSteil?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

issued subpoenas to one current and two former ActBlue employees to appear for depositions.

Read more from https://twitter.com/nypost?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

— House Admin. Committee GOP (@HouseAdmin) https://twitter.com/HouseAdmin/status/1963653869625344037?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

The https://nypost.com/2025/09/04/us-news/house-gop-subpoenas-three-actblue-lawyers-in-foreign-donor-fraud-probe/

that records previously uncovered by the House committees show that Hurwitz, Ting and the unidentified counsel worked with the platform’s fraud prevention team to relax the organization’s donation standards during the 2024 election cycle.

ActBlue is accused of allowing debit and credit transactions to be processed without requiring a card verification value (CVV) until January 2024 and then further instructed employees to “look for reasons to accept contributions.”

In April and September of 2024, guidelines were further relaxed allowing between 14 and 28 fraudulent contributions each month.

A report released in March from House Oversight and Administration Committee staff, showed that ActBlue had 1900 fraudulent transactions between February 2022 and November 2024.

The letter released Thursday by the House committees, says, “Other internal ActBlue documents show that top fraud-prevention staff assessed that there were several mechanisms by which bad actors could evade ActBlue’s fraud-prevention systems and make illicit donations.”

In that letter, Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil (R-WI), Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) affirmed that, “Congress has a specific interest in ensuring that bad actors, including foreign actors, cannot make fraudulent or illegal political donations through online fundraising platforms. Our oversight to date indicates that current law may be insufficient to stop these illicit donations.”

The organization was also found to have fraudulently used the names and personal confidential information of American citizens, without their knowledge or permission, to launder money through the ActBlue platform.

An overnight investigation has found even more disturbing evidence of donation fraud in my name...

ActBlue FEC campaign reports claim I donated multiple $2 amounts to Democratic candidates in Kansas.

I have never stepped foot in Kansas.

I have never donated to any candidate. https://t.co/JPYA9ZTp3m

— Matt Van Swol (@matt_vanswol) https://twitter.com/matt_vanswol/status/1902711476269232288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

https://cms.zerohedge.com/users/tyler-durden

Fri, 09/05/2025 - 11:40

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/actblue-lawyers-subpoenaed-house-gop-investigation-donor-fraud-intensifies

🤖 Tracking strings detected and removed!

🔗 Clean URL(s):

https://twitter.com/RepBryanSteil

https://twitter.com/nypost

https://twitter.com/HouseAdmin/status/1963653869625344037

https://twitter.com/matt_vanswol/status/1902711476269232288

❌ Removed parts:

?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

🤖 Tracking strings detected and removed!

🔗 Clean URL(s):

https://x.com/YuiNinomiya0906/status/1963980552706396249

❌ Removed parts:

?t=CKqjpW0AzEIklFmbNbCBpw&s=19