Bitcoin at $100K? Here’s What I’m Doing About It

If your asset allocation still treats Bitcoin as a speculative side bet and ignores energy infrastructure as a strategic asset, you’re investing like it’s 2015.

The real story isn’t just the rise of tech or the volatility of energy markets: it’s that the rules of what counts as safe and strategic have fundamentally changed. And so have the geopolitics.

1. Bitcoin: Beyond Casino, Now Core

Bitcoin is no longer just a retail “bet.” It’s becoming an institutional hedge, arguably the first truly non-sovereign, censorship-resistant reserve asset.

With monetary regimes under strain and political trust decaying, Bitcoin is taking the role gold once held before ETFs and central bank interventions diluted its edge.

Yes, it’s volatile. But its track record matters: since the pandemic, Bitcoin has outperformed nearly every asset class by a factor of 10. And here’s the twist: as of 2025, it’s less volatile than gold.

2. Stablecoins: The Digital Eurodollar

While Bitcoin gets the headlines, stablecoins are quietly becoming the backbone of global settlements.

• Scale: Multi-trillion-dollar settlement pipes for emerging markets, corporate treasuries, and dollar liquidity seekers in jurisdictions where the local regime can’t be trusted.
  
• Policy shift: Bolstered by the GENIUS Act, stablecoins are now mainstream, top-tier creditors backed by U.S. Treasuries.
  
• Implication: They’re not just crypto, they’re a key part of Washington’s plan to find new domestic buyers for U.S. debt. As the market cap of Bitcoin grows, so does the market cap of stablecoins, and the amount of Treasuries needed to back them.
  

3. Commodities: Boring, Until They Aren’t

Copper, uranium, lithium, oil: these aren’t just cyclical plays anymore. They’re at the center of a new energy and sovereignty arms race.

Post-Ukraine, every major economy is scrambling to secure the metals and fuels that underpin their independence. Volatility is the new normal, and pricing power belongs to resource-rich nations.

Washington, with guidance from the Department of Defense, has finally recognized the risk: China’s dominance in manufacturing and supplying critical metals like rare earths is a strategic vulnerability.

4. AI and the Power Crunch

AI isn’t just changing how we work, it’s transforming global energy demand. Data centers are now among the biggest electricity consumers on the planet.

The shift isn’t about “peak oil” anymore; it’s about “peak grid.” Renewables are part of the bridge, but gas and nuclear are regaining ground. Dirty, disliked, indispensable — fossil fuels still power 86% of global energy. In geopolitics, energy resilience is beating ESG box-ticking.

5. Renewables as Bridge, Not Destination

Solar and wind are growing, but they’re transitional, not the final stop.

As AI and digital infrastructure expand, we’ll need every available electron—carbon-neutral or not. The smart money sees renewables as a bridge to nuclear and next-gen hydrocarbons.

6. The Portfolio Perspective

In this environment, your “safe assets” list needs an upgrade:

• Digital hard assets: Bitcoin, stablecoins.
  
• Physical hard assets: Gold, critical commodities.
  
• Energy transition plays: Renewables, nuclear, select hydrocarbons.
  
• Tactical risk-on exposure: For opportunistic rotations.
  

Forget the ghost of 60/40. Build for a regime where power, trust, and digital sovereignty are the true reserve currencies.

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