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GC Cooke

@Gccooke

Sep 19, 2025 • 13 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X

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A crypto company is hoarding $8.7B in gold bars.

Not Bitcoin. Not digital assets. Physical gold.

Mining executives call Tether "the weirdest company ever."

Here's the shocking reason they're buying up gold mines:

Tether runs USDT, the world's biggest stablecoin.

$168 billion market cap.
$5.7 billion profits in just the first half of 2024.

They're one of the largest US Treasury holders on the planet.

But their gold strategy caught everyone off guard:

Those $8.7 billion in gold bars?

They're sitting in Zurich vaults right now.
Physical bullion backing their digital operations.

CEO Paolo Ardoino calls gold "natural bitcoin."

His next move shocked the mining industry:

June 2024: Tether invests $105 million in Elemental Altus.

That's a Toronto-listed gold royalty company.

Last Friday: Another $100 million as Elemental merged with EMX.

Total deployed: $205 million and counting.

But Tether isn't stopping at investments.

They're in talks to control the entire gold supply chain:
Mining. Refining. Trading. Royalties.

Traditional executives don't understand what's happening:

"They like gold. I don't think they have a strategy."

That's what one mining executive told reporters.

Another called them "the weirdest company I've ever dealt with."

They're missing the bigger picture:

Tether makes billions from Treasury interest.

Those Treasuries back their stablecoin.
The interest creates massive cash flow.

Now they're using those profits to buy hard assets.

Their commodity trade finance book has grown into billions.

They finance raw material shipments worldwide.

Their gold-backed token XAUt has an $880 million market cap.

Each piece connects to form something unprecedented:

Digital yields funding physical assets.

Treasury profits buying gold mines.
Stablecoin revenues creating commodity empires.

Juan Sartori from Tether confirmed this is intentional.

"We're increasing our gold exposure," Sartori said.

The strategy goes beyond simple diversification.

They're building bridges between digital and physical value.

While others debate crypto vs gold, Tether owns both:

This convergence matters for institutional investors.

Stablecoins aren't just digital dollars anymore.
They're gateways to sophisticated treasury strategies.

The smartest wealth advisors are paying attention:

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- CoinDesk: youtube.com/watch?v=Iscphj…
- The Deep Dive: youtube.com/watch?v=0VjkwM…
- Tether: youtube.com/watch?v=Kt3L8m…
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First, understand what's being challenged here.

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Tech experts predict 20% annual economic growth.

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At that rate, the economy doubles 3 times per decade.

Your children grow up in a completely different world.

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Trump's Treasury pick Scott Bessent has a solution to America's $29 trillion debt crisis:

Force crypto to buy it!

Stablecoin companies must legally hold US Treasury bills as collateral. That's $2 trillion in guaranteed buyers.

Here's how crypto replaces foreign governments as America's lender:

First, understand what just happened.

Congress passed the Genius Act in July.

New law: Stablecoins must back their dollars with ultra-safe assets.

Translation: Treasury bills become mandatory.

Today's stablecoin market holds $250 billion.

Bessent told Congress he expects it to reach $2 trillion in the coming years.

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The guy who used AI to make a fake Biden and trick voters in 2024 got fined $6 million.

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The FCC's $6 million fine was the first penalty for AI voter suppression.

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We weren't dealing with isolated incidents anymore:

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Authors are suing for $150,000 per book—that's over $1 trillion in damages.

The trial starts December 1, 2025.

Here's the copyright case that could bankrupt AI's biggest players:

Anthropic allegedly used piracy sites LibGen and PiLiMi to build a "central library."

Their internal goal? Collect "all the books in the world" and keep them "forever."

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