I've been wracking my brain lately to come up with what TPTB will use to kick off the next bitcoin/crypto bull run.

No doubt it'll be something just as mind mindbogglingly stupid as the last stupid thing.

Vanity shitcoins are dead.

Flippenings are dead.

ICOs are dead.

NFTs are dead.

DeFi is dead.

Big personalities buying mega amounts of bitcoin is...not dead yet? (AKA the Elon Musk / Michael Saylor / SBF effect)

I feel like the next bull run will definitely include a young, tech savvy Silicon Valley "big deal" type personality.

So here's my next bull run prediction:

Sam Altman's OpenAI tells him that "Bitcoin will take over the future of finance on planet Earth" and to "buy Bitcoin", so he does. Buying a mega shit ton.

Then his AI tells him to start up his own crypto exchange and hedge fund. So he does that too.

Bitcoin skyrockets.

Then (when they're ready for the rug pull) his AI tells him, "Actually I was wrong, it won't be Bitcoin, it'll be this other new shiny shitcoin over here that will supercede bitcoin in the future."

Sam will then dump bitcoin for the mentioned shitcoin (that's traded on his exchange, of course).

Bitcoin crashes.

....

Sounds like a stupid prediction? Welp, they are already priming the pump by promoting him in the MSM:

Sam Altman is tech’s next household name — if we survive the killer robots
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/17/sam-altman-is-techs-next-household-name-if-we-survive-the-killer-robots.html

You read it here first folks.