The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) raised trading margins by 10% as silver prices surged. Furthermore, the exchange has built-in price limits that suspend trading when silver prices "rise too high or too fast." Theoretically, this is called "risk management," but in practice, it limits and slows the upside potential of this key monetary asset when silver prices begin to expose fiat currency pressures. Note how this system works: – When silver prices surge, the exchange raises trading margins and suspends trading. – When silver prices plummet, there is no "too high or too fast" protection mechanism. This is not neutral risk management. It's a mechanism designed to suppress the upside potential of a monetary asset exposed to fiat currency weakness while allowing it to fall. Bitcoin, on the other hand, is not subject to such mechanisms. It trades 24/7, is globally accessible, and has no central switch to stop trading when prices begin to expose fiat currency pressures. If enough people start treating Bitcoin like a canary in a coal mine of fiat currency, then there's really something wrong with the system, because unlike silver on CrimEx (aka COMEX), they can't simply flip volatility breakouts and let the signal disappear.