Is Trump Crashing the Dollar? How To Protect Yourself! | BitcoinHardTalk Episode 77
Apr 18, 2025
#BitcoinHardTalk Episode 77
By Simon Dixon
Hey hey Bitcoin Wealth Builders,
This one’s different. And it needed to be. There’s not much new happening with Bitcoin this week — not in terms of price or news cycles. But while the charts stay still, the world beneath them is shifting faster than ever before. So I made the call to turn the spotlight where it needs to be: on the engineered collapse of the dollar, the multipolar reset, and the technocratic hellscape being built for your children unless you wake up now.
This episode isn’t about reacting to news. It’s about reading the real plan. The headlines are distractions. Tariffs? Theater. Elections? Illusions. The real moves are happening in the shadows — and they’re global. What you’re about to read is what I believe every Bitcoin investor, every entrepreneur, every free-thinking human needs to understand right now — before they get absolutely wrecked.
If you read nothing else, skip to the solutions. But I suggest you take this one all the way through. Because this is not just a Bitcoin update. This is a survival briefing.
This Week in Bitcoin: Quiet on the Charts, Loud in the Background
Bitcoin didn’t move much this week. But don’t confuse that with irrelevance. In fact, the silence is part of the setup. Central banks are stacking gold. Treasuries are being dumped. Currency volatility is flashing red. And Bitcoin? Just sitting there. Waiting.
The truth is, Bitcoin’s price doesn’t need to pump this week to stay on mission. The mission hasn’t changed — it’s just become more obvious. While stablecoins are being dressed up as progress, and CBDCs are being paraded as safety, Bitcoin remains the only monetary asset without a political master. And in a week like this — when the U.S. just signaled it wants to implode its own currency — that matters more than ever.
This Week in Macro: Trump’s Tariffs and the Strategy to Crash the Dollar
Let’s be clear: Trump’s 54% tariff on China wasn’t some oops moment. It wasn’t a trade miscalculation. It was a financial nuke — and it did exactly what it was meant to do.
Bond yields spiked. Foreign holders dumped treasuries. The dollar lost 2% of its value overnight. That’s not market movement — that’s strategic demolition. While everyone was watching the stock market bounce around, the real collapse happened in the debt markets. And if you missed that, you’re not watching the right game.
The U.S. has $10 trillion in debt to refinance this year. But with 30-year yields climbing, who the hell is going to buy that debt? The answer is no one — unless the Fed intervenes, again, and again, and again. And that just kicks the can off the cliff.
Meanwhile, Trump’s tariffs are slaughtering small businesses. You either pay 125% more for imports or you shut your doors. That’s not an accident. That’s the same playbook from 2020. Back then, it was lockdowns. Now, it’s tariff-induced death spirals. And guess what? AI-critical imports — robotics, chips, semiconductors — they’re all exempt. Why? Because America isn’t being rebuilt for people. It’s being rebuilt for machines.
This Week in Geopolitics: The Empire Hands Over the Keys
What’s happening in Israel isn’t about ceasefires or humanitarian aid. It’s about a regime change that sets the stage for a restructured Middle East. Netanyahu is done. Peace deals with Gaza are coming. And with that, a $53 billion reconstruction plan backed by the Gulf states is moving into position.
Israel’s power doesn’t come from within — it comes from its strategic usefulness to U.S. interests. And now that America is pulling back, Israel is being forced to negotiate from weakness. That’s why Trump gave them power before stripping it. He gave them tech. He gave them leverage. And then he handed over the region to China and the GCC to finish the deal.
So who paid for Trump?
Three backers. Elon Musk — the technocrat engineer building out surveillance and AI infrastructure. The Mellon banking family — old-world oligarchs managing the financial continuity plan. And Miriam Adelson — Israel First, carrying the torch of Sheldon’s strategic Zionism. That’s the real administration. Trump is just the spokesman.
This isn’t a war between Left and Right. This is a war between centralization and decentralization. And while Americans argue about Biden’s age and Trump’s indictments, the real game is being played globally, across economic corridors you’re not even seeing.
Europe is being sacrificed — austerity, war, inflation, surveillance. The U.S. is being converted into a stablecoin-run technocracy, backed by NSA-friendly assets. The Middle East is rising as a corridor of peace and capital. And BRICS is consolidating. This is a multipolar reset — not a spontaneous one, but an orchestrated one.
And if you think Trump is here to save you, you’re being lied to. He’s not rebuilding America for Americans. He’s building an AI-powered export hub for his backers. He’s investing in China. He’s investing in the Middle East. He’s even investing in Bitcoin. But middle-class Americans? You’re getting wrecked.
You will get wrecked if you think Trump is looking to help you. He’s lying to you. And if you’re betting on him without watching what he’s actually doing — you’re toast.
Is Trump Crashing The Dollar? | #BitcoinHardTalk Episode 77 (Part One):
🔗 https://youtu.be/hqrkH9EkLNo?si=9dwoOISZ-Z2NWJWd
Is Trump Crashing The Dollar? | #BitcoinHardTalk Episode 77 (Part Two)
🔗 https://youtu.be/QKtckxCHUcc?si=aABDNBTwFV0BJTdP
The Solution: What You Must Do Now Before It’s Too Late
Here’s the part that matters most. I told people at the beginning of this episode — if you only watch one thing, watch this. So here it is, straight.
#1: Re-skill:
You’ve got to reskill — now. Not next year. Not when your job gets replaced. Now. This transition into AI, robotics, Bitcoin infrastructure, semiconductors, and automation is happening whether you like it or not. Every business in the world is going to need help adjusting. Become that help — or get replaced.
#2: Exit the Fiat Trap:
You’ve got to exit the system wherever you can. If you can avoid debt — avoid it. If you can save in Bitcoin — save in Bitcoin. If you're not ready for Bitcoin, at least stop sitting in fiat. But if you’re serious about sovereignty, learn self-custody. Don’t rely on exchanges. Don’t rely on governments. Take control.
#3: Follow the Capital Flows:
You’ve got to move your labor and capital into places and sectors that are actually growing. America is being built for machines. Europe is being gutted. If you stay in these regions, you’d better be sovereign. The Middle East, Asia, Africa — those are the new wealth corridors. Go where the growth is.
#4: Boycott the System:
You’ve got to stop funding your enemies. That means Amazon, that means Wall Street, that means the military industrial complex. Spend local. Build local. Support decentralized infrastructure. Join projects building peer-to-peer systems. This is your war front.
#5: Decentralize Everything:
From your money to your media to your identity — decentralize it all. Run your life on open-source code, peer-to-peer networks, and permissionless systems. If you don’t own the rails you’re riding on, they’ll be used to control you.
#6: Prepare for the Psychological War:
And finally — you’ve got to prepare your family. Sit down with them. Have the conversation. This isn’t a phase. It’s not just “a bit of volatility.” The world is changing. And if you don’t change with it, you’re going to suffer. It’s that simple.
You are either going to get wrecked — or you’re going to be one of the few who made the hard decisions early and built a sovereign life while the rest of the world fell asleep.
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Timestamp (Main Video Blog)
0:00 Introduction
2:00 This week in Macro
16:27 This week in GeoPolitics
22:53 Simon Dixon breaks down what's really happening with the Trump tariffs. X Space recording.
1:01:10 Simon Dixon lays out the Solution
1:09:21 Q&A
Disclaimer
This blog was generated with the assistance of AI and is based on the content presented by Simon Dixon in BitcoinHardTalk Episode 77. The episode, which spanned nearly four hours across two parts, explored Simon’s macroeconomic and geopolitical breakdown of U.S. debt markets, Trump’s strategic use of tariffs, the reconfiguration of global financial corridors, and the endgame of central bank digital currencies, stablecoins, and technocratic control.
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