# You Can’t Print Credibility

URL: /show/this-week-in-bitcoin/120/
> As the AI trade cools and Washington leans harder on the bond market, Bitcoin and hard assets are reminding investors that credibility is the one thing you can’t print.

- Show: [This Week In Bitcoin](/show/this-week-in-bitcoin/)
- Episode: 120
- Date: 2026-08-26
- Hosts: chris
- Duration: 01:02:07
- Audio: https://feeds.fountain.fm/40huHEEF6JMPGYctMuUI/items/j6VhDXoBhrDx8Bqf9mbQ/files/AUDIO---DEFAULT---88a54311-dd63-4d82-bebf-5d4128ad4b1f.mp3


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**Show Notes**

* [Bessent’s Treasury Buybacks Could Exceed $4 Billion](https://www.cnbc.com/video/2026/08/20/bessent-says-treasury-buyback-operation-could-be-more-than-4-billion.html)
* [Druckenmiller Slams Bessent’s Bond Buybacks](https://en.sedaily.com/international/2026/08/25/druckenmiller-slams-bessents-bond-buybacks-government)
* [Druckenmiller Calls Treasury Bond Buying a Mistake](https://finance.yahoo.com/video/bessents-mentor-druckenmiller-calls-bond-155323982.html)
* [Citi Economist Says Bessent’s Bond Plan Won’t Work](https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/articles/scott-bessents-bond-plan-wont-155745232.html)
* [Citi: US Fiscal Position Is Absolutely Out of Control](https://www.cnbc.com/video/2026/08/25/we-have-a-fiscal-position-thats-absolutely-out-of-control-says-citis-nathan-sheets.html)
* [Dollar Debasement Talk Returns](https://www.axios.com/2026/08/21/dollar-debasement-treasury-bonds)
* [Bessent’s Buyback Revives the Debasement Thesis](https://blog.cfbenchmarks.com/bessents-buyback-revives-the-debasement-thesis/)
* [Bessent’s Bond Rescue Worked Better for Bitcoin](https://www.inc.com/phil-rosen/stock-market-outlook-bond-traders-bitcoin-debasement-gold-bessent-treasury/91394409)
* [Bessent Kicks Bitcoin’s Debasement Trade Into Another Gear](https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/crypto/article/scott-bessent-just-kicked-the-bitcoin-debasement-trade-into-another-gear-chart-of-the-day-110841942.html)
* [Bitcoin Posts Best Week in Three Years](https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/crypto/articles/bitcoin-best-week-3-years-110854105.html)
* [Bitcoin and Gold: It’s Difficult to Be Bearish](https://finance.yahoo.com/video/really-difficult-bearish-now-alphaspace-120000050.html)
* [Should Investors Be Bullish on Bitcoin’s Latest Surge?](https://finance.yahoo.com/video/investors-cautious-bullish-bitcoins-latest-160000000.html)
* [Coinbase Institutional Weekly Market Commentary](https://www.coinbase.com/institutional/research-insights/research/weekly-market-commentary/weekly-2026-08-07)
* [BlackRock IBIT SEC Filing](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1980994/000143774926026004/bit20260630c_10q.htm)
* [Bitcoin Halving and Supply](https://bitcoin.org/en/halving)
* [Lightning Labs Taproot Assets v0.8](https://lightning.engineering/posts/2026-06-23-tapd-0.8-launch/)
* [Bitcoin, ETFs and the Crypto Short Squeeze](https://www.investors.com/news/bitcoin-price-80k-treasury-department-trump-administration-crypto-short-squeeze-etf-base/)
* [Major Rotation Hits the Bull Market](https://finance.yahoo.com/video/just-had-one-most-significant-120000665.html)
* [The Biggest Tech Trend We’ve Ever Seen](https://finance.yahoo.com/video/biggest-tech-trend-ve-ever-122024791.html)
* [Scott Bessent Plants the Seeds for a Crack-Up](https://www.realclearmarkets.com/2026/08/25/scott_bessent_plants_the_seeds_for_crack-up_1202258.html)
* [US Treasury Fiscal Data](https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/)
* [Treasury Disrupts Iran’s Strait of Hormuz Financial Network](https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0581)
* [Treasury Broadens Sanctions Against Iran](https://www.sahi.com/news/us-treasury-targets-five-iranian-sectors-with-broadened-secondary-sanctions-risks-sanctions-PE)
* [Bessent Expands Iran Sanctions Against Chinese Firms](https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/bessent-drops-iran-sanctions-hammer-dozens-chinese-firms-spares-big-banks-beijing)
* [Treasury Launches Operation Economic Outcast](https://dallasexpress.com/national/treasury-launches-operation-economic-outcast-to-isolate-irans-financial-networks/)
* [Bessent Warns Countries to Cut Financial Ties With Iran](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/latest-canada-prime-minister-promises-123234331.html)
* [Treasury’s New Approach to Iranian Sanctions Evasion](https://www.hstoday.us/subject-matter-areas/counterterrorism/mapping-the-network-treasurys-new-approach-to-iranian-sanctions-evasion/)
* [The Double-Edged Sword of Dollar Sanctions](https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5132&context=caselrev)
* [Coin Stories with Natalie Brunell](https://fountain.fm/show/WiDvob4Cv6It4RUPANUs)