On March 16, Arthur Hayes, the co-founder of the cryptocurrency exchange Bitmex, published a blog post called “Energy Cancelled,” which describes the economics behind the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. Hayes explains in his 26-minute long opinion piece that historians may point to February 26, 2022, as the time in history when the “Petro Dollar / Euro Dollar monetary system” ended.

Speculation Concerning an Independent International Monetary and Financial System Free From the Petro Dollar and Euro Dollar Monetary System

There’s been a lot of economic calamity since the start of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, as financial conditions worldwide have tightened and Russia has been sanctioned by a large swathe of countries. Analysts and economists believe the war and sanctions could have negative effects on the global economy and on March 5, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned the “economic consequences are already very serious.” A few days after the IMF warning, U.S. lawmakers introduced a bill that sanctions Russia’s gold reserves.

Reports indicated on March 13, that the Russian Federation finance minister, Anton Siluanov, explained that half of the country’s gold and foreign reserves were frozen. This is approximately half of the reserves we had. We have a total amount of reserves of about $640 bln,” Siluanov said. “Currently, we cannot use about $300 billion of these reserves,” the Russian finance minister added.

Siluanov’s statements led to speculation about an independent international financial and monetary system between China and the Eurasian Economic Union. There is also a lot of confusion and vagueness regarding the Russian’s frozen Gold. The journalist Pepe Escobar highlights in his report called “Say hello to Russian gold and Chinese petroyuan,” that there is a mystery to be solved. Escobar asks, “Where is the frozen Russian gold?”

Bitmex Founder Arthur Hayes Outlines The Consequences of Canceling the World’s Largest Energy Exporter

Meanwhile, the co-founder of the cryptocurrency exchange Bitmex, Arthur Hayes, published a blog post on March 16, that touches upon canceling the world’s largest energy exporter and the end of the “Petro Dollar / Euro Dollar monetary system”

What happens when you “cancel” the world’s largest energy producer … ? “Energy Cancelled” is an essay on why the post-1971 Petro / Eurodollar regime died on 26 February 2022. Are you ready for $1 million #Bitcoin and $10,000 #Gold? https://t.co/EttRAmPPS9 pic.twitter.com/LOSqaseq3N

— Arthur Hayes (@CryptoHayes) March 16, 2022

The blog post by Hayes is very long but full of sourced data. Hayes stresses that historians will likely call February 26, 2022, as the end of the monetary system controlled by the “Petro Dollar” and “Euro Dollar.”

Hayes also believes that a financial crisis is coming and it will affect every sector of the global financial system. “I am 100% certain that there will be a financial crisis of epic proportions predicated on losses faced by commodity producers and traders who touch every aspect of the globalised financial system,” the Bitmex co-founder’s blog post explains. Hayes also added

You cannot remove the world’s largest energy producer — and the collateral these commodity resources represent — from the financial system without serious unimagined and unintended consequences.

Vulnerabilities Tethered to Centralized, Permissioned Digital Networks

This blog post was written by Bitmex’s co-founder and explains how the U.S. became a dominant force within finance. America used to be the dominant country in manufacturing and industrial industries. But Hayes claims that America now exports finance, not goods, all over the globe on a macro-scale .”

Hayes also discussed fiat currencies and the ways humans have created methods to send “value electronically over centralised permised digital networks.” However, Hayes maintains that SWIFT is controlled “effectively by the U.S.A and EU .”

Hayes explained that there are weaknesses when a ruling country “decides to stop access to the network for any participants.” The Bitmex founder added:

Remember this, you own nothing, you merely ‘rent’ your net worth both as an individual or sovereign from the entity that operates the centralised, permissioned fiat digital monetary network.

Hayes Believes if Gold Marches Its Way Above $10K, Bitcoin Will March Its Way to a Million

Further into the blog post, Hayes states that he believes gold “will phase shift” to a much higher price than it is today. He believes competition and demand “will push the marginal last price well north of $10,000, and we could see stupendous prices for gold that seems unfathomable.”

Gold jumping to $10K per ounce or higher will “psychologically shock” the world’s asset markets, Hayes notes. Hayes wholeheartedly believes that most hard assets that people use to hedge will skyrocket in value and this includes bitcoin (BTC).

“As gold marches its way above $10,000, bitcoin will march its way to $1,000,000. Hayes says that the bear market in fiat currencies would trigger the greatest wealth transfer the world has ever witnessed. Hayes also stated that bitcoin and gold are both forms of hard money assets. Hayes wrote that both are hard money. One is analog (gold), the other is digital (bitcoin).

At the end of Bitmex’s blog post, the executive discusses the pros and cons of storing wealth in precious metal and how cumbersome it can be to store. Hayes states that most readers don’t have a vault to keep their yellow pet rocks in. Instead, they would prefer a more portable hard store of wealth.

Hayes concludes his blog post by stating that “you can’t cancel the largest energy producer out of a monetary systems without massive repercussions.” The economy will then “present a position where hard money instruments dominate all of global trade .”

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