Crypto Talk Radio: Basic Cryptonomics
PAX Gold (#PAXG ), Tether Gold (#XAUt ) And Others Steal Attention
28 Jan 2026
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Chapter 1: What is the focus of the episode regarding PAX Gold and Tether Gold?
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Chapter 2: How does Bitcoin's performance relate to the current market trends?
We must speak again about precious metals, not specifically precious metals. We must speak about tokenized assets connected to the value of precious metals because it occurred to me, likely spurred on by some YouTubers that there is this rush towards these assets that I understand it's Stockholm syndrome. People have become trapped and they cannot look past it.
And so they want to stay in it and it provides them an outlet. And I understand that I am not trying to tell you that you're stupid. Might seem like I will, but that's not the intent. That just, it's how it translates. I am rather going to make an impassioned plea to make what I believe is a smarter decision for the long haul. This may go through deaf ears, and I understand.
I am not, I'm not oblivious.
Chapter 3: Why is diversification important in cryptocurrency investments?
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Chapter 4: What are tokenized assets and how do they relate to precious metals?
We're going to start with Bitcoin, though I hesitate to do so. It's important we start with Bitcoin because it connects to my later message. Bitcoin currently hovering around the 89,000 mark over the past month. We always zoom out to the month chart because when dealing with cryptocurrency assets, we are dealing with a significant amount of volatility.
It is critical to slow the volatility down and then look for a pervasive pattern. The pervasive pattern of Bitcoin is a positive trend. Things coming back up after a significant dip not long ago, got very close to 85,000. Didn't stay there very long. There is a push to hold the line and keep Bitcoin above the thresh.
How long that takes to do that is as yet unknown, but right now it's looking positive.
Chapter 5: What is driving the recent interest in Tether Gold and PAX Gold?
I have repeatedly said and will continue to do so that diversification of the portfolio is never a bad thing, that you want a diverse set of assets for your investments, not just one. not to YOLO and anyone that you do need to have levels of risk. And the risk is according to how much you're willing to lose. The risk of losing with cryptocurrency is,
diminishes or i should say minimizes when you're dealing with the main players especially bitcoin it doesn't really go away there's still a risk there i don't know if anybody saw da vinci jeremy's recent uploads where he was talking about he's been talking about precious metals more than he did before again this is the bitcoin maxi guy all of a sudden he's talking precious metals
gave an upload and i there was a commenter and i'm with this guy or gal where he's like i don't get it essentially he's like i don't get it i don't get what what's your point with the video because the the title of the video basically said he's going to sell his maybach he didn't in the video he didn't really make it clear what it is he's doing after he sells the Maybach.
All he did was read a chat GPT post where the chat GPT post essentially said silver is broken. Well, we already knew that. You didn't need chat GPT to tell you that.
Chapter 6: How do supply chain issues affect the price of precious metals?
So this commenter is basically saying, okay, you're going to sell your Maybach. Now what? I'm paraphrasing. That's basically what he said. And I had the same takeaway. He didn't ever conclude with a result. He did say he was going to go long on something. which I think was Bitcoin, but he didn't connect it to say in summary, I'm selling my Maybach so that I can, what, what are you doing?
He didn't ever do that. So it seems to me, and another commenter said this, a lot of the YouTube folks who previously had sworn off of all things, precious metals have kind of jumped back on the bandwagon and
Chapter 7: What risks are associated with investing in tokenized assets?
All of a sudden, I would consider that a form of FOMO, wouldn't you? But it seems like they all started talking about precious metals out of thin air after disregarding it for countless years. Because at the time, 2021, say, you were dealing with the casino, right? And so it was a, everything was flourishing.
You could talk about all these key shoes and flow keys and all these garbage tokens, right? The so-called alt seasons, all of the things we took for granted that have now quieted down. Now we have silence, except for one project basically confirmed itself recently to be a scam that I won't name. With that exception, pretty much it's dead silence. precious metals took a front seat.
Fiat took a second seat, co-passenger seat.
Chapter 8: Why should investors consider physical precious metals over tokenized versions?
So then we look at what is it about precious metals? This folks is where I'm going to go with today's episode that rhymes because it's important. I think in my opinion, to analyze why there's so much FOMO happening with the crypto YouTube folks and some of the crypto bros. Quickly, though, Ethereum's tumbling above the $3,000 mark. Certainly not impressive.
Idiot Vitalik talked about, as I said before, we need to increase privacy after this idiot moved away from proof of work, which is the ultimate form of doing so. I digress. Ethereum's price is following Bitcoin. Bitcoin, this connects to my ultimate topic. Bitcoin has liquidity pairs of its own, trading pairs of its own.
Part of the trading disaster that was happening with Bitcoin had to do with hash rates and a decline of some of the transactions and traffic that we would expect that helped keep the price up. It was less about people dumping per se and more about lower activity. Turns out some of the mining facilities, were actually affected. I almost said impacted. It's basically the same, but affected.
I want to say affected because if they didn't go down, they were just affected by the winter storms. We had significant cold hit in multiple places. That significant cold started to cause some problems with the grid. Texas is dealing with it now. For those that didn't understand, when it gets extremely cold,
And this is my beef with a lot of these places that don't bury their power infrastructure. Because when it gets extremely cold, your electricity tends to be a little bit sensitive and has some problems. And then if you have winds, that makes it worse. If you have squirrels or whatever, it makes it worse. Texas has had problems with its infrastructure during inclement weather in the past.
So it didn't surprise me that was going to happen. I just assumed they would bite the bullet and invest to fix it, and they did not do. So they were running into problems. Other places were running into problems due to this recent winter storm that's apparently going to continue for a little longer.
We expect that most of this horrible weather is going to last the span of January before it starts to lighten up a little bit in February. That's at least the expectation. While mining facilities, the irony is, of course, mining is a very heat intensive activity. It generates a lot of heat. These facilities have to keep those machines cool.
So rather than that, my thoughts like, well, rather than why don't you just turn off the cooling system and let those things warm and keep themselves weather, you know, temperature controlled from the weather. by the natural heat that they generate anyway, and you might be able to reclaim some of that heat and repurpose it to support some of the other parts of the buildings.
But rather, they would prefer to just let the thing go rogue. I don't know. It felt to me like there's not a clean strategy for what's going on there. I don't know for sure, but it seems kind of bizarre to me. that of all things to bring down a mining facility, it's just the blistering cold. Cold that humans theoretically can walk in, wouldn't recommend doing it for long.
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