Yes.  It seems that I accounted for that it was only an example.. or illustration or whatever.


You're still not really saying much of anything.  So what?  Largely you seem to be recognizing some potentially conceded hypotheticals, and the points that you are trying to make?  How do your points relate to what we are talking about here? 


Oh gawd..    You just love simple scenarios.   Yes.. there was a lot of bullshit fraud going on in the SBF/FTX/Alameda case.  Yes.. the US Govt seems to be quite threatened by bitcoin from several angles... so there seems to be various kinds of mud-stirring going on that might involve collusion to allow SBF/FTX/Alameda to fuck around with bitcoin in terms of not having bitcoin to back up what they were doing and to be engaged in a kind of fractional reserve that involved no bitcoin.. and a lot of fake shit.. yes.. so what?  what are you saying? exactly?  Are you trying to make some narrow causal statements in regards to how dirty the USA Govt is going to play and that's why you don't believe in buying bitcoin and instead you are going to buy I-Bonds?


It does not really clarify very much.  We don't disagree that various kinds of shit is happening that relates to bitcoin, and it has historically been happening, and it is likely to continue to happen and also we are still discovering some of the various connections of SBF/FTX/Alameda to bitcoin and surely, there might be some attempts to cover some of that up too, but it may well be too difficult to cover some of those relationships up.. We will see, but bitcoin is not merely about the description that picks out various things that are going on and then NOT really having much of any kind of point except maybe to say things are messy or maybe you want to say BTC prices are going down?  or would you rather say that bitcoin prices are going up?  You see that it sometimes can be difficult to figure out what point that you are wanting to make..

yes, we know that there are all kinds of dynamics that relate to cost of living getting worse for Americans.  Are you familiar with any of Jeff Booth's ideas in terms of the price of tomorrow or even maybe some of the podcasts that he has recently participated in?  I can give you some links, but I am not sure if that will help if you might not listen to them and you just point out various facts that a lot of us really already know, but just pointing out "stream of conscious" facts does not always necessarily lead to the various conclusions that you want to make.. or your speculations about when x, y or z is going to happen.  Does it? 

I know that you just love to make specific predictions, but what good is that going to do?   maybe a lot of us might NOT be in great disagreement if you are making directional and long term predictions rather than specifics (as long as you keep your stupid-ass talking up of doggie coin or keep litecoin pumping out of it), but if you are trying to lock-in specific kinds of short-term predictions in a sorcerer guru wannabe way, then you are more likely to receive push back.. maybe not from everyone..