Cas Abbé
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I’ve been in crypto long enough to know that markets don’t move this way by accident.
What happened over the last 9–10 days is the clearest sign yet that Bitcoin has entered a new phase — not retail-driven, not hype-driven, but institution-driven.
Think about the timing:
Vanguard opens BTC access to 50M customers.
JPMorgan releases leveraged Bitcoin products.
Goldman Sachs drops $2B on an ETF issuer.
Bank of America gives 15,000 advisers the green light to recommend Bitcoin allocations.
These are the biggest names in U.S. finance and they moved almost in sync.
They didn’t hesitate. They didn’t wait for calmer markets.
They moved exactly when retail was dumping.
Because retail sold $3.47B in November — the largest ETF outflow month so far — and institutions love moments like this.
It’s the classic cycle: weak hands panic, strong hands accumulate.
Then we get hit with new MSCI rules, which will force $11.6B more selling.
And Nasdaq suddenly expands IBIT options 40 times so volatility can be controlled more easily.
You can call it manipulation or strategy — but the result is the same:
Bitcoin didn’t collapse.
It got absorbed.
It got handed over.
This wasn’t a crash.
This was a transfer of ownership.
Bitcoin just moved from the public to the biggest financial machines in the world.
What happened over the last 9–10 days is the clearest sign yet that Bitcoin has entered a new phase — not retail-driven, not hype-driven, but institution-driven.
Think about the timing:
Vanguard opens BTC access to 50M customers.
JPMorgan releases leveraged Bitcoin products.
Goldman Sachs drops $2B on an ETF issuer.
Bank of America gives 15,000 advisers the green light to recommend Bitcoin allocations.
These are the biggest names in U.S. finance and they moved almost in sync.
They didn’t hesitate. They didn’t wait for calmer markets.
They moved exactly when retail was dumping.
Because retail sold $3.47B in November — the largest ETF outflow month so far — and institutions love moments like this.
It’s the classic cycle: weak hands panic, strong hands accumulate.
Then we get hit with new MSCI rules, which will force $11.6B more selling.
And Nasdaq suddenly expands IBIT options 40 times so volatility can be controlled more easily.
You can call it manipulation or strategy — but the result is the same:
Bitcoin didn’t collapse.
It got absorbed.
It got handed over.
This wasn’t a crash.
This was a transfer of ownership.
Bitcoin just moved from the public to the biggest financial machines in the world.
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