Alan Knitowski ∞/21M

Big Bitcoin (aka the U.S. Bitcoin Industrial Complex) controls Bitcoin’s price, at least in the short term. The beast moves when Big Daddy Bessent gives the word. So stop whining, stack sats, and STFU. This is a gift. They need to recapitalize the system, and they’re positioning themselves to do exactly that. But there are a hell of a lot of moving parts: domestic politics, geopolitics, economic instability, wars, and the internal power struggle between the Fed and Treasury. A lot has to align before they can afford to release the beast. And here’s the real question: Once they unleash it, can they actually control the upside? I don’t think they can. They may be able to manage the timing and suppress volatility in the short term, but controlling a globally traded, digitally native asset once the repricing cycle accelerates is an entirely different animal. And when that happens, the models get blown apart. All those traditional financial assumptions that make $STRC look like a lost cause through a conventional TradFi lens? Right out the window. The same frameworks @darkside2030 , @Puncher522 , @dotkrueger , and others love to pontificate about could become obsolete almost overnight. They’re evaluating a new financial structure using models built for an old monetary system. The irony is that the very forces attempting to control Bitcoin’s repricing may ultimately trigger a process they can no longer contain. Game theory is one hell of a drug.