Silent War Between JPMorgan and the White House: Is Bitcoin and MSTR the Target?
Original Title: Trump's Gambit: The Quiet War Between the White House and JPMorgan
Original Source: Maryland HODL
Original Translation: Golden Finance
A monetary power struggle is unfolding in plain sight — but almost no one realizes the stakes. Here is my personal speculation.
Over the past few months, a new pattern has emerged in the realms of politics, markets, and media. Disparate news headlines suddenly connect, market anomalies no longer seem so random, and institutional behavior exhibits unusually aggressive traits. Beneath the surface, a deeper transformation seems to be at play.
This is not a normal monetary cycle.
It is not a traditional partisan squabble.
This is not mere "market volatility."
What we are witnessing now is a direct confrontation between two competing monetary systems:
The Old Order... centered around JPMorgan, Wall Street, and the Fed.
And the New Order... centered around sovereign debt, stablecoins, and a Bitcoin-based digital architecture.
This conflict is no longer theoretical but real and escalating. For the first time in decades, it is coming out into the open.
Below is an attempt to the real battlefield... the battlefield that most analysts cannot see because they are still applying a frame of reference from 1970-2010 to a world that is breaking free from its own constraints.
I. JPMorgan Steps Out of the Shadows
Most people think of JPMorgan as a bank. This is incorrect.
JPMorgan is the operational arm of the global financial apparatus... the entity closest to the core mechanism of the Fed, influencing global dollar settlement, and acting as a primary executor of the traditional monetary system.
So when Trump released content about the Epstein network and explicitly named JPMorgan (rather than looking at individuals in isolation), this was not rhetorical exaggeration. He drew a deeply entrenched institutional entity into this public relations storm.

Meanwhile:
· JPMorgan is actively shorting Strategy ("MSTR") and threatening the traditional monetary interests as Bitcoin's macro narrative.
· Clients attempting to move MSTR shares out of JPMorgan are experiencing delivery delays, implying potential stress in the custody system... This stress only arises when internal systems are under strain. https://x.com/EMPD_BTC/status/1991886467694776531?s=20
· JPMorgan occupies a core position in the Fed's strategic architecture, both structurally and politically. Weakening its position is equivalent to weakening the old monetary system itself.
All of this is not normal.
All of this is part of the same story.
II. Quiet Government Pivot: Returning Monetary Policy Power to the Treasury
While the media is keen on shifting the focus to cultural wars, the real strategic agenda is about money.
The current administration is quietly working to bring the center of monetary issuance back to the U.S. Treasury... Specific tactics include:
· Stablecoin integrated with government debt
· Programmable settlement rails
· Bitcoin reserves as long-term collateral
This adjustment will not alter the existing system in any way.
It replaces the central power center of the system.
Currently, the Federal Reserve and commercial banks (led by JPMorgan) almost monopolize all U.S. dollar issuance and circulation. If government debt along with stablecoins become the primary channels for issuance and settlement, the banking system will lose authority, profits, and control.
JPMorgan understands this.
They fully grasp the implications of stablecoins.
They understand what it means if the Treasury becomes the issuer of programmable dollars.
So, they are countering not through press releases but through market strategies:
· Derivative pressures
· Liquidity bottlenecks
· Narrative suppression
· Custody delays
· And political leverage
This is not a policy dispute.
This is a struggle for survival.
III. Bitcoin: The Unforeseen Battlefield
Bitcoin is not the target... It is the battlefield.
The U.S. government aims to undergo a discreet strategic accumulation before distinctly advancing a debt-based digital settlement system. Prematurely announcing this would trigger gamma squeeze, causing a surge in Bitcoin's price and making the cost of accumulation prohibitively high.
Issue?
The old system employs suppression mechanisms akin to gold trading to suppress Bitcoin signals:
· Proliferation of paper Bitcoin derivatives,
· Large-scale synthetic short positions,
· Cognitive warfare,
· Liquidity shocks at key technical levels,
· Custodial bottlenecks at major brokers.
JPMorgan Chase has spent decades mastering these techniques in the gold realm. Now, they are applying these techniques to Bitcoin.
Not because Bitcoin directly threatens bank profits... but because Bitcoin reinforces the Treasury's future monetary system, weakening the Fed's monetary system.
The government faces a stark strategic choice:
1. Allow JPMorgan Chase to continue suppressing Bitcoin to retain the ability to accumulate Bitcoin at a low price.
2. Make a strategic declaration to trigger a Bitcoin price breakthrough, but lose the element of concealment before political alliances are solidified.
This is why the government remains silent on Bitcoin.
Not because they do not understand, but because they understand too well.
IV. Both Sides Waging War on Fragile Foundations
This struggle takes place on top of a sixty-year-old established monetary system:
· Financialization,
· Structural leverage,
· Artificially suppressed rates,
· Asset-first growth model,
· Reserve concentration,
· And institutional cartelization.
Historical correlations have failed everywhere, as the entire system is no longer in sync. Traditional financial experts who view this as a normal cycle have failed to realize that the cycle itself is disintegrating.
Regimes are falling apart. The plumbing is unstable. The incentives of both sides are diverging.
JPMorgan's traditional order and the Treasury's emerging order are both playing on the same fragile infrastructure. Any miscalculation could trigger cascading turmoil.
This is why these actions look so strange, so disconnected, so insane.
Five, MSTR: Conversion Bridge Under Direct Attack
Now let's introduce a key aspect that most commentators overlook.
MicroStrategy is not just a company that holds Bitcoin.
It has become a conversion mechanism—a bridge between traditional institutional capital and the emerging Bitcoin sovereign currency architecture.
MSTR's structure, leveraged Bitcoin strategy, and its preferred stock product effectively convert fiat currencies, credit, and treasury assets into long-term Bitcoin exposure. In this way, MSTR has actually become a convenient gateway for institutional and retail investors to enter the Bitcoin market, people who cannot (or do not want to) hold spot Bitcoin directly but need to escape the artificially suppressed yields of YCC.
This means:
If the government envisions a future where a Treasury-backed digital dollar and Bitcoin reserves can coexist, then MSTR is the key corporate channel for making this transition possible.
JPMorgan Chase understands this as well.
So when JPMorgan:
· Favors massive shorting,
· Causes delivery delays,
· Puts pressure on MSTR's liquidity,
· And fuels negative market sentiment,
It is not just attacking Michael Saylor.
It is attacking the conversion bridge that enables the government's long-term accumulation strategy to succeed.
There is even a plausible scenario (although still speculative at the moment, but increasingly logical) that the U.S. government will ultimately intervene and make a strategic investment in MSTR. As recently proposed by @joshmandell6:
· By injecting U.S. treasuries as a condition for ownership of MSTR,
· This would explicitly support MSTR's preferred vehicle and help improve its credit rating.
Doing so would bring political and economic risks.
But it would also send a signal to the world that cannot be ignored:
The U.S. is defending a key node in its emerging currency system.
Just based on this, one can explain why JPMorgan is launching such a fierce attack.
Six, Key Window: Control Over the Fed
Next, time becomes extremely urgent.
As @caitlinlong recently pointed out: Trump needs to take control of the actual operations of the Fed before Powell steps down. Currently, the situation is not in his favor... he is behind by about three to four votes on the Fed board.
Several bottlenecks are converging at the same time:
· Lisa Cook's lawsuit filed to the Supreme Court may last for months and delay key reforms.
· The February 2025 Fed board elections could solidify a hostile governance situation for the coming years.
· In the upcoming midterm elections, a weakened Republican Party will diminish the government's ability to adjust monetary policy.
This is why economic growth momentum is crucial now, not six months later.
This is why the Treasury's issuance strategy has changed.
This is why stablecoin regulation has suddenly become crucial.
This is why the crackdown on Bitcoin is so important.
This is why the debate around MSTR is not a trivial matter, but a structural issue.
If the Trump administration loses control of Congress, he will become a lame duck president... unable to restructure the monetary system, but rather constrained by the institutions he originally sought to circumvent. By 2028, the window of opportunity will no longer exist.
Time is running out, the pressure is immense.
Seven, A More Macro Strategic Picture
When you take a step back, you will see the pattern:
· JPMorgan Chase is fighting a defensive battle to preserve the Fed's banking system as it is the primary global node of that system.
· This administration is quietly transitioning to restore the Treasury's monetary dominance through stablecoins and Bitcoin reserves.
· Bitcoin is a proxy battleground, price suppression protects the old system while secretive accumulation strengthens the new system.
· MSTR is a conversion bridge, a threat to JPMorgan's control over capital flows.
· Fed governance is a bottleneck, political timing is a constraining factor.
· Everything is happening on an unstable foundation, where any wrong move can trigger unforeseeable systemic consequences.
This is not financial news, nor is it political news.
This is a civilization-level monetary transformation.
For the first time in sixty years, this conflict is no longer being concealed.
Chapter Eight Trump's Strategy
The government's strategy is gradually becoming clear: Let JPMorgan Chase go too hard on suppression. Quietly accumulate Bitcoin. Defend and strengthen the MSTR bridge as much as possible. Take swift action to reshape the governance structure of the Fed. Position the Treasury Department as the issuer of the digital dollar.
Then wait for the right political moment (possibly the "Mar-a-Lago Accord") to unveil the new architecture.
This is not a gentle reform but a complete overturning of the 1913 order... It is about returning monetary power to political institutions rather than financial ones.
If this strategy succeeds, the U.S. will enter a new monetary era based on transparency, a digital path, and a hybrid Bitcoin collateral framework.
If it fails, the control of the old system will strengthen, and the window for change may not reopen until the next generation.
Either way, the war has already begun.
Bitcoin is no longer just an asset... It is the boundary between two competing futures.
What both sides have failed to understand is that ultimately, both will succumb to absolute scarcity and mathematical truth.
Prepare for the battle for control between these two giants, stay vigilant, and prioritize security.
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Debunking the AI Doomsday Myth: Why Establishment Inertia and the Software Wasteland Will Save Us
Editor's Note: Citrini7's cyberpunk-themed AI doomsday prophecy has sparked widespread discussion across the internet. However, this article presents a more pragmatic counter perspective. If Citrini envisions a digital tsunami instantly engulfing civilization, this author sees the resilient resistance of the human bureaucratic system, the profoundly flawed existing software ecosystem, and the long-overlooked cornerstone of heavy industry. This is a frontal clash between Silicon Valley fantasy and the iron law of reality, reminding us that the singularity may come, but it will never happen overnight.
The following is the original content:
Renowned market commentator Citrini7 recently published a captivating and widely circulated AI doomsday novel. While he acknowledges that the probability of some scenes occurring is extremely low, as someone who has witnessed multiple economic collapse prophecies, I want to challenge his views and present a more deterministic and optimistic future.
In 2007, people thought that against the backdrop of "peak oil," the United States' geopolitical status had come to an end; in 2008, they believed the dollar system was on the brink of collapse; in 2014, everyone thought AMD and NVIDIA were done for. Then ChatGPT emerged, and people thought Google was toast... Yet every time, existing institutions with deep-rooted inertia have proven to be far more resilient than onlookers imagined.
When Citrini talks about the fear of institutional turnover and rapid workforce displacement, he writes, "Even in fields we think rely on interpersonal relationships, cracks are showing. Take the real estate industry, where buyers have tolerated 5%-6% commissions for decades due to the information asymmetry between brokers and consumers..."
Seeing this, I couldn't help but chuckle. People have been proclaiming the "death of real estate agents" for 20 years now! This hardly requires any superintelligence; with Zillow, Redfin, or Opendoor, it's enough. But this example precisely proves the opposite of Citrini's view: although this workforce has long been deemed obsolete in the eyes of most, due to market inertia and regulatory capture, real estate agents' vitality is more tenacious than anyone's expectations a decade ago.
A few months ago, I just bought a house. The transaction process mandated that we hire a real estate agent, with lofty justifications. My buyer's agent made about $50,000 in this transaction, while his actual work — filling out forms and coordinating between multiple parties — amounted to no more than 10 hours, something I could have easily handled myself. The market will eventually move towards efficiency, providing fair pricing for labor, but this will be a long process.
I deeply understand the ways of inertia and change management: I once founded and sold a company whose core business was driving insurance brokerages from "manual service" to "software-driven." The iron rule I learned is: human societies in the real world are extremely complex, and things always take longer than you imagine — even when you account for this rule. This doesn't mean that the world won't undergo drastic changes, but rather that change will be more gradual, allowing us time to respond and adapt.
Recently, the software sector has seen a downturn as investors worry about the lack of moats in the backend systems of companies like Monday, Salesforce, Asana, making them easily replicable. Citrini and others believe that AI programming heralds the end of SaaS companies: one, products become homogenized, with zero profits, and two, jobs disappear.
But everyone overlooks one thing: the current state of these software products is simply terrible.
I'm qualified to say this because I've spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on Salesforce and Monday. Indeed, AI can enable competitors to replicate these products, but more importantly, AI can enable competitors to build better products. Stock price declines are not surprising: an industry relying on long-term lock-ins, lacking competitiveness, and filled with low-quality legacy incumbents is finally facing competition again.
From a broader perspective, almost all existing software is garbage, which is an undeniable fact. Every tool I've paid for is riddled with bugs; some software is so bad that I can't even pay for it (I've been unable to use Citibank's online transfer for the past three years); most web apps can't even get mobile and desktop responsiveness right; not a single product can fully deliver what you want. Silicon Valley darlings like Stripe and Linear only garner massive followings because they are not as disgustingly unusable as their competitors. If you ask a seasoned engineer, "Show me a truly perfect piece of software," all you'll get is prolonged silence and blank stares.
Here lies a profound truth: even as we approach a "software singularity," the human demand for software labor is nearly infinite. It's well known that the final few percentage points of perfection often require the most work. By this standard, almost every software product has at least a 100x improvement in complexity and features before reaching demand saturation.
I believe that most commentators who claim that the software industry is on the brink of extinction lack an intuitive understanding of software development. The software industry has been around for 50 years, and despite tremendous progress, it is always in a state of "not enough." As a programmer in 2020, my productivity matches that of hundreds of people in 1970, which is incredibly impressive leverage. However, there is still significant room for improvement. People underestimate the "Jevons Paradox": Efficiency improvements often lead to explosive growth in overall demand.
This does not mean that software engineering is an invincible job, but the industry's ability to absorb labor and its inertia far exceed imagination. The saturation process will be very slow, giving us enough time to adapt.
Of course, labor reallocation is inevitable, such as in the driving sector. As Citrini pointed out, many white-collar jobs will experience disruptions. For positions like real estate brokers that have long lost tangible value and rely solely on momentum for income, AI may be the final straw.
But our lifesaver lies in the fact that the United States has almost infinite potential and demand for reindustrialization. You may have heard of "reshoring," but it goes far beyond that. We have essentially lost the ability to manufacture the core building blocks of modern life: batteries, motors, small-scale semiconductors—the entire electricity supply chain is almost entirely dependent on overseas sources. What if there is a military conflict? What's even worse, did you know that China produces 90% of the world's synthetic ammonia? Once the supply is cut off, we can't even produce fertilizer and will face famine.
As long as you look to the physical world, you will find endless job opportunities that will benefit the country, create employment, and build essential infrastructure, all of which can receive bipartisan political support.
We have seen the economic and political winds shifting in this direction—discussions on reshoring, deep tech, and "American vitality." My prediction is that when AI impacts the white-collar sector, the path of least political resistance will be to fund large-scale reindustrialization, absorbing labor through a "giant employment project." Fortunately, the physical world does not have a "singularity"; it is constrained by friction.
We will rebuild bridges and roads. People will find that seeing tangible labor results is more fulfilling than spinning in the digital abstract world. The Salesforce senior product manager who lost a $180,000 salary may find a new job at the "California Seawater Desalination Plant" to end the 25-year drought. These facilities not only need to be built but also pursued with excellence and require long-term maintenance. As long as we are willing, the "Jevons Paradox" also applies to the physical world.
The goal of large-scale industrial engineering is abundance. The United States will once again achieve self-sufficiency, enabling large-scale, low-cost production. Moving beyond material scarcity is crucial: in the long run, if we do indeed lose a significant portion of white-collar jobs to AI, we must be able to maintain a high quality of life for the public. And as AI drives profit margins to zero, consumer goods will become extremely affordable, automatically fulfilling this objective.
My view is that different sectors of the economy will "take off" at different speeds, and the transformation in almost all areas will be slower than Citrini anticipates. To be clear, I am extremely bullish on AI and foresee a day when my own labor will be obsolete. But this will take time, and time gives us the opportunity to devise sound strategies.
At this point, preventing the kind of market collapse Citrini imagines is actually not difficult. The U.S. government's performance during the pandemic has demonstrated its proactive and decisive crisis response. If necessary, massive stimulus policies will quickly intervene. Although I am somewhat displeased by its inefficiency, that is not the focus. The focus is on safeguarding material prosperity in people's lives—a universal well-being that gives legitimacy to a nation and upholds the social contract, rather than stubbornly adhering to past accounting metrics or economic dogma.
If we can maintain sharpness and responsiveness in this slow but sure technological transformation, we will eventually emerge unscathed.
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