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BITCOIN IS F**KING BACK!! | Simply Originals

Simply Bitcoin

August 23, 2026

Bitcoin just ripped toward $80,000, wiping out weeks of bearish predictions and creating a $13 billion swing for Michael Saylor in roughly 48 hours.
Speakers: Nico Moran, Ray Dalio

Topics: News Commentary, News

**Nico Moran** (0:00)
Bitcoin is back! Bitcoin ripped to $79,475, currently sitting around $77K fiat cut bucks for a Bitcoin and running. Plus, 25% since Bloomberg's favorite Permabear told you it was going to $10K and getting... the hell do you say? Purge? Michael Saylor was down $10 billion, now up $3 billion. That's right. Thus, $3 billion in a span of about, you know, 48 hours. That's a $13 billion swing in the time it takes the post office to lose your package. And billionaire Arthur Hayes just looked at the Fed and said, if you admit yield curve control, we go straight to $500,000.
This is not a bounce. This is not a rally. This is reckoning. And by the end of this video, you're going to understand 1
Why $78K is just the receipt for a $40 trillion lie.
Why Besant saying there's nothing magic about $40 trillion is the most psychotic sentence of the year.

**Ray Dalio** (1:12)
And 3

**Nico Moran** (1:13)
Why every single hater who fated Bitcoin just caught a god candle to the face. Welcome back, I'm Rusty, and we got a lot to get to. Just wait until we show you, you know, how insane $40 trillion really is.
It's gonna break your brain, not to mention you're gonna learn. Oh, to literally save your **** from hyperinflation. Yes, your literal ****, cause you know, if you're saving in dollars, that's right. Oh, no more spoilers and no more **** around. What are we doing? It's go time.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:50)
Let's get into it.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:54)
Oh, Mr. Secretary, which is, you know, strong signal from the administration on the buybacks, but you know, the fundamentals are ultimately what is gonna prevail here in the bond market and the fundamentals are hard to ignore when it comes to the size of our debt, with public debt increasing to now $40 trillion.

**SPEAKER_5** (2:13)
Yeah, I mean, look, sir, there's nothing magic about the $40 trillion number and we can grow our way out of that. So, but what we do wanna signal is I think that there's been a lot of misinformation in terms of what's going on with the deficit, what's going on with the deficit to GDP. We actually had a fiscal consolidation for the calendar year 2025
We had, we were at about 5.7% of GDP and one of the things that's temporary here that's influencing the deficit has been these tariff refunds and we won't have to do that again and the ambassador Greer through the 301 process is re-implementing the same level of tariffs and I would expect that our 2026 tariff income is gonna be roughly what it was in 25 and we're gonna be able to keep that in terms of the budget consolidation.

**Nico Moran** (3:09)
This country is 340 million people arguing about what to call a sandwich while the treasury treats the money printer like a f**king peloton. We're not serious people, but Bitcoin is serious money. Did you guys see this? We have trouble in paradise. This week, the United States, the richest, most powerful country in the history of the planet, allegedly officially passed $40 trillion in debt. That's right, everyone, take a second. Let's give them a round of applause. Incredible achievement, I mean, really. And Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, the guy whose actual job is to know how broke we are, gets on CNBC and says, and I quote, there's nothing magic about the $40 trillion number, and we can grow our way out of it. Nothing magic? That's like your doctor saying there's nothing magic about your 600 pound cholesterol number. We can walk our way out of it while you're actively having a heart attack on the table. Good old JD Vance, he tried to clean it up, says Besson has a very quote, discrete plan to reduce it. Very discrete, the only thing discrete about this plan is how discreetly they hope you won't notice the treasury just doubled long-term bond purchases to keep the yields from exploding. It's not really a plan.
It's yield curve control without saying yield curve control. That's a money printer with fake mustaches. Let's translate Bessant. We grow our way out means we will inflate our way out. We will make your dollar smaller so our debt looks smaller. They don't fix the debt, they manipulate the ruler.
That's the financial industrial complex, the Ponzi, that's been running since 1971 gaslighting you while it picks your pocket, allegedly. What they're really doing is putting up giant billboards telling you to buy Bitcoin because they're going to debase the debt.
Even the Ruskies know what's up. And make no mistake, both teams did this, took us 200 years to get to our first trillion. We just added our last trillion in less than five months. That's like a subscription service you forgot to cancel and now it charges you a trillion every 20 weeks. It's okay, there's nothing magic about it. It's just numbers, not voodoo.

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