Jake Claver

As an educational framework, settlement assets that provide liquidity during market stress can experience rapid price discovery when demand spikes suddenly. The key mechanism is how available supply, market depth, and institutional positioning affect liquidity during correlated selloffs. Which assets are positioned to handle that demand at scale?

Bitcoin isn't going up because the world finally understands it.

It's going up because Tether keeps printing. Every Tether mint correlates with a Bitcoin price increase. It's the liquidity backbone for BTC, and the day that liquidity freezes is the day the chart breaks. If you can't explain who's buying at these prices, this is your answer.

What do you actually think is propping up BTC?

Yes. A living trust does not replace a will. A pour-over will moves anything not already titled in the trust into the trust at death. Assets bought after the trust was established and never retitled, gold, silver, property, family heirlooms, all get pulled in through the pour-over will. Without it, those assets go through probate. With it, they flow into the trust and pass to the beneficiaries the way you intended.

Paying off a 3% mortgage is the most expensive 'safe' move you can make.

If your 30-year fixed is locked at 3% or less and Treasuries are paying 5%, you're literally being paid to keep the debt. Put the cash to work somewhere it earns more than it costs. The only reason to pay it off anyway is if the debt genuinely stresses you out. That's a real reason. But math is math.

What would you do?