{"id":3607,"date":"2025-05-29T00:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T00:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/29\/saifedean-ammous-nothing-stops-this-train-tether-bitcoin-and-the-endgame-for-the-dollar\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T00:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T00:17:08","slug":"saifedean-ammous-nothing-stops-this-train-tether-bitcoin-and-the-endgame-for-the-dollar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/29\/saifedean-ammous-nothing-stops-this-train-tether-bitcoin-and-the-endgame-for-the-dollar\/","title":{"rendered":"Saifedean Ammous: \u201cNothing Stops This Train\u201d \u2013 Tether, Bitcoin, and the Endgame for the Dollar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/\">Bitcoin Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/news\/saifedean-ammous-nothing-stops-this-train-tether-bitcoin-and-the-endgame-for-the-dollar\">Saifedean Ammous: \u201cNothing Stops This Train\u201d \u2013 Tether, Bitcoin, and the Endgame for the Dollar<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/saifedean\" target=\"_blank\">Saifedean Ammous<\/a>, CEO of Saifedean.com and author of The Bitcoin Standard, delivered a data-driven keynote at the <a href=\"https:\/\/b.tc\/conference\/2025\/agenda\" target=\"_blank\">Bitcoin 2025 Conference<\/a>, warning of inevitable U.S. dollar decline and positioning <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/guides\/how-to-buy-bitcoin\">Bitcoin<\/a> as the only rational hedge. \u201cDefault, devaluation, or default by devaluation are inevitable,\u201d Ammous declared, adding pointedly, \u201cTether can\u2019t fix what a century of fiat democracy ruined.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Using projections and flow charts, Ammous argued that <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/takes\/tether-is-back-on-bitcoin-lightning-dominance-is-just-starting\">Tether\u2019s Bitcoin strategy<\/a> could soon outpace its U.S. dollar reserves. \u201cThen Tether will break the peg upwards,\u201d he said, predicting a scenario where 1 USDT could equal 1.02 USD and continue revaluing as the dollar weakens. \u201cTether becomes a relatively stablecoin as the dollar declines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The talk emphasized what Ammous described as a self-reinforcing loop: as USDT demand rises, so does Tether\u2019s need for BTC reserves, which drives up Bitcoin prices\u2014leading to even more revaluation. \u201cThis is a significant impact on the market,\u201d he said. \u201cBuying bitcoin is the smartest thing anybody could do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a final sweeping statement, Ammous forecasted the end of the USD era. \u201cEventually, USD reserves go to zero next to BTC reserves,\u201d he said. \u201cUSDT keeps getting revalued upward until it is redeemable in bitcoin. USDT \u2192 BTCT.\u201d He called Tether a \u201ctransition monetary system\u201d and concluded, \u201cEven the most bullish scenario for USD is much more <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/markets\/why-you-should-be-bullish-on-bitcoin\">bullish<\/a> for BTC.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To Ammous, the dollar is locked in a downward spiral while Bitcoin, with its \u201cnumber go up technology,\u201d continues rising. \u201cThe thing that goes up is going to overtake the thing that goes down,\u201d he said\u2014summarizing his entire argument in one sentence.<\/p>\n<p>This post <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/news\/saifedean-ammous-nothing-stops-this-train-tether-bitcoin-and-the-endgame-for-the-dollar\">Saifedean Ammous: \u201cNothing Stops This Train\u201d \u2013 Tether, Bitcoin, and the Endgame for the Dollar<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/\">Bitcoin Magazine<\/a> and is written by <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/authors\/jennamontgomery\">Jenna Montgomery<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin Magazine Saifedean Ammous: \u201cNothing Stops This Train\u201d \u2013 Tether, Bitcoin, and the Endgame for the Dollar Saifedean Ammous, CEO of Saifedean.com and author of The Bitcoin Standard, delivered a data-driven keynote at the Bitcoin 2025 Conference, warning of inevitable U.S. dollar decline and positioning Bitcoin as the only rational hedge. \u201cDefault, devaluation, or default [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3607","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}