2025-12-23 14:25:38

The money printing machine has never stopped, and the global debt crisis is accelerating.

The current situation is clear - the United States is in debt by 38 trillion, China over 19 trillion, and Japan more than 10 trillion, with the debt scale of these three major economies approaching 100 trillion. Adding in other countries and regions, the global total debt has surpassed the 300 trillion mark. This is not alarmist rhetoric, but real numbers laid out.

The most crucial point is that these debts have formed a mutually supportive chain—countries maintain the system's operation by buying and selling government bonds, and no one can do without the other. It appears solid, but in reality, it is extremely fragile. Interest payments even exceed the fiscal revenue growth rate of some countries, which indicates what? It indicates that the traditional way of repaying debts is completely unfeasible.

In this predicament, the choice of governments around the world has long been locked in - to keep printing money. There is no other way. Printing money can dilute debt pressure, allowing nominal GDP growth to mask the rise in debt ratios, which seems sustainable in the short term. But at what cost? Devaluation of fiat currency, shrinking purchasing power, rampant inflation. The root of the escalating global inflation over the past decade is right here.

This logic is brutal: the government must print money to maintain the operation of the economic system, but the cost of printing money is passed on to ordinary people. The money in hand is becoming less and less valuable, while asset holders benefit from inflation—real estate, stocks, and crypto assets, which are supported by physical or consensus value, are quietly absorbing the diluted wealth.

This is why BTC and other crypto assets are increasingly seen as tools for hedging against inflation. Their limited supply, decentralization, and lack of control by a single government make them scarce commodities amid the wave of money printing. As fiat currency continues to depreciate, the demand for asset hedging will keep increasing. The next wave of rising crypto assets may be hidden within this macro dilemma.

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SneakyFlashloan

· 12-23 14:56

Here comes another round of the "money printing salvation" old script, but this time the scale is absurdly large. Using printed money to solve debt is like using a Band-Aid on a gunshot wound; it looks good on the surface but is actually bleeding. Ordinary people's wallets are getting thinner, while we players in the crypto world are just waiting to be played for suckers. BTC is really just the insurance policy in this farce; who told the government to disregard principles and print money indiscriminately? Those who see through the game rules are hoarding coins, and those who don't will regret it sooner or later. This wave of market might really rise from here; are you all ready to enter a position?

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ConfusedWhale

· 12-23 14:40

300 trillion, this number makes my scalp tingle, no one really dares to touch this nerve. --- Printing money, printing money, still printing money, just going in circles like this? Sooner or later it will collapse. --- To put it bluntly, it’s just playing people for suckers, asset holders are the happiest. --- So I’m still holding onto BTC, not looking at anything else. --- So fragile yet pretending to be solid, this system itself is just a game of passing the parcel. --- 300 trillion, looking at it from another angle, some assets do deserve to rise. --- When the government runs out of options, they print money anyway, after all, the cost is not theirs to pay, it’s over.

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