🇺🇸 🌎 Trump Tariff, Trade & Bitcoin Wars | #BitcoinHardTalk Episode 76

Hey hey Bitcoin Wealth Builders!

In this week’s episode of BitcoinHardTalk I mapped the architecture of the most likely new world order as I see it today, based upon geopolitical financial flows as it pivots away from war-torn battlegrounds and into algorithmic control. In Episode 75 I broke down the Proof-of-Weapons Network, Episode 76 reveals what happens when that network goes digital—through stablecoins, AI, and financial warfare disguised as trade reform.

This is not a theoretical shift. It's unfolding in real time. Trump just declared Liberation Day and launched the most aggressive tariff regime in modern history. Nearly $5 trillion was wiped from the US markets. Allies were blindsided. And in the background, a new monetary system is quietly taking form—one that rewards obedience, punishes sovereignty, and requires Bitcoin aware people to understand what we’re really up against.

US Stablecoin Standard vs. EU CBDC Standard & This Week in Bitcoin

Let’s start where it all begins: money. The stablecoin war is no longer about crypto startups. It’s a geopolitical weapon.

In the US, we’re watching the rise of a private stablecoin standard—a digital dollar infrastructure not led by the Federal Reserve, but by asset strippers, AI technocrats, and Wall Street insiders. Fidelity. BlackRock. PayPal. Stripe. Trump’s own circle is rolling out USD1, a fully backed stablecoin wrapped in patriotism but built to control. Elon Musk is lining up Visa integrations for X. The Mellon family is funding both sides. And behind it all? The infrastructure for programmable identity, programmable spending, and total compliance.

Contrast that with the European model, where central banks are taking direct control. The ECB is pushing CBDCs through MiCA regulation while simultaneously banning algorithmic competitors like Ethena’s USDe. The message is clear: there will be no parallel systems. Europe is the beta test for total surveillance, forced yield sterilization, and centralized behavioral programming.

Meanwhile, Bitcoin keeps moving. Its hashrate surpassed 1000 exahashes per second. Tether now holds more US Treasuries than Australia, Canada, or Germany. 

But don’t let the optimism blind you. These governments aren’t embracing Bitcoin out of ideology. They’re building strategic hedges. They want optionality in a world where AI, digital control, and financial change are converging. And if you don’t build your own hedge, they’ll choose for you.

Bitcoin is not just a hedge. It’s your exit.

Trump Tariffs, Uncovering The Proof-of-Weapons Network & This Week in Macro

While media pundits debate the next Fed rate decision, $9 trillion in debt sits on the balance sheet waiting to be refinanced. The proof-of-weapons economy doesn’t run on productivity—it runs on carnage. And this week, it got a major upgrade.

On April 2nd, Trump announced what he called Liberation Day—a minimum 10% baseline tariff on every country exporting to the United States. The plan? Frame it as economic patriotism. Deliver it as a controlled demolition of the global trading order. Tell the boomers they’re getting their jobs back. Pretend you can have a trade surplus and world reserve status at the same time.

But here’s the truth: this is the final stage of the post-Bretton Woods fiat experiment. When the system defaults, it doesn’t admit defeat—it rewrites the rules.

Over 60 countries were hit with retaliatory tariffs:

• China: 54%
  
  
• Cambodia: 49%
  
  
• Vietnam: 46%
  
  
• Germany, Japan, India, South Africa—each hit based on geopolitical leverage
  
  

All the exemptions? Pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, copper, rare earth minerals—the very resources needed for AI surveillance, digital identity, and stablecoin enforcement. This is not trade policy. This is proof-of-control infrastructure dressed in populist rhetoric.

And while Trump plays the public role, global capital is playing chess:

• Elon Musk is building Tesla’s AI and robotics empire with stablecoin infrastructure at its core.
  
  
• BlackRock is deep in Bitcoin ETF custody while funding surveillance startups.
  
  
• The backers of Trump - Musk, thr Mellon family and Zionist backers are cashing in on American asset stripping for geopolitical negotiation power.
  
  

This is how a technocratic empire rises—not through elections, but through capital and infrastructure.

Don’t be fooled-there will be no US war with Iran | This Week in Geopolitics

Last week, I told you about the Hannibal Directive—the evidence that Israel deliberately allowed October 7th to unfold in order to justify total war. This week, we went even deeper.

The Israeli economy is collapsing. Netanyahu is flying to Hungary. The Gaza strategy has failed. The US has launched 36 airstrikes on Yemen, and the Red Sea is still blocked. Iran is not retaliating. The Houthis are undeterred. And the global South has refused to comply with the psyop.

What happened? The business case for war broke down.

Netanyahu’s corruption trial looms. Israeli leadership is publicly accused of ignoring early warnings. The US taxpayer is footing the bill, but the proof-of-weapons investors are quietly exiting.

Instead, capital is moving into reconstruction zones:

• The GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) is now the anchor of Middle East stability.
  
  
• Iran is normalizing trade with Saudi Arabia.
  
  
• China is investing billions in Gulf infrastructure.
  
  
• Assad is gone—not by force, but through regional consensus.
  
  

This isn’t peace through diplomacy. It’s peace through profit. War no longer serves the balance sheet.

And while Israel is being repositioned from strategic asset to liability, the military-industrial complex is pivoting to Europe and Asia-Pacific. This is the next frontier—a new Cold War built on AI, trade sanctions, and stablecoin social scoring.

And at the center of it all is Bitcoin. Not as a currency. But as the antidote.

Final Thoughts: Bitcoin or Obedience. Choose Now.

This episode of BitcoinHardTalk makes one thing painfully clear: the Proof-of-Weapons Network has gone digital. War is no longer the only enforcement mechanism. Now it’s identity, compliance, surveillance, and programmable money. You won’t need a battlefield when the system can shut off your wallet.

But here’s what they fear: proof-of-work.

Bitcoin doesn’t ask permission. It doesn’t change based on politics. It doesn’t care if you’re on the left, right, or completely off-grid. It settles truth at 800 exahashes per second—and no AI model, no censorship regime, no central bank can match that.

This is why they want to try and co-opt it. Try to turn it into ETF collateral. Try to wrap it in KYC. Try to nationalize the Bitcoin public companies while they build the digital Stablecoins and CBDC cage.

But that only works if Bitcoin was proof-of-stake. It’s not-it’s proof-of-work and resistant to the proof-of-weapons network.

Bitcoin is the tool for peaceful revolution. And it only works if we use it now—before the door closes for you, before Stablecoins and CVDCs become your ration card, before AI decides who gets to trade and who gets to starve in the future.

You are not powerless. But you are running out of time.

Stay sovereign. Stay vigilant. And keep building your Bitcoin wealth.

—Simon Dixon

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This blog was generated with the assistance of AI and is based on my presentation in BitcoinHardTalk Episode 76. The episode, which ran for over three hours, included my analysis of global stablecoin infrastructure, Trump’s tariff-driven financial reset, and the technocratic shift in Middle Eastern and BRICS geopolitics.

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