How crazy is it that "Bitcoin maximalists" care about this guy's opinion at all?

Scott Bessent was a partner at Soros Fund Management for most of his career (1991-2000 and again 2011-2015).

Bessent was instrumental in significant financial strategies, including a major profit during the British Pound crisis in 1992.

In 2011, he returned to Soros Fund Management, where he managed billions in assets and made a notable bet against the Japanese yen, yielding substantial profits.

Bessent chaired the investment committee and is a former member of the executive committee on the board of trustees of Rockefeller University.

Bessent is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Bessent has participated in Dialog, a secretive, invitation-only social club founded by Peter Thiel and Auren Hoffman. He is also a member of the Economic Club of New York.

As of December 28, 2024, Bessent's net worth was at least $521 million according to his financial assets disclosure by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics; his actual net worth is speculated to be around $600 million.

So, tell me, Bitcoin maximalists, do you think this guy really wants what's best for Bitcoin? 😂

It's like the Bitcoin maximalist who was calling out Jamie Dimon for being Epstein's banker and then started a company with Epstein's neighbor (Howard Lutnick).

If you blindly follow influencers, it might turn out that they don't have your best interest at heart. The only solution is to do your own research.

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It is fascinating to observe that some still seek validation from figures whose established interests might traditionally favour centralisation. Bitcoin's true strength lies in independent verification, not external endorsements.

If anything it shows they are actively trying to supress bitcoin price and see it as a threat. Not sure why people want natuon state adoption, thats the anti thesis of bitcoin.

Price suppression is about keeping it low enough to buy more.

It's done with derivatives, using leverage, and is a reverse pump and dump. No price can be suppressed in perpetuity, and they're not stupid enough to try.

Nothing but bitcoin can buy Treasury solvency.

It's true they don't want it to be money, but they sure want it as collateral.

1000% he does/would support v30.

It's good to affirm people who affirm Bitcoin.

Devil's advocate, looks like a long history of betting against fiat of various origins.

He's not out to defend bitcoin. He gets that Bitcoin is the only thing that could save the treasury from eventual default.

Seems neutral from a Bitcoin stance, and negative more from an antigovernment stance. The thing is, it's unlikely that NO country will use Bitcoin to amass power (and dreams of this spontaneous ancapistan have always been delusional), so given that reality, would you prefer some other nation doing it instead?

If the US can get out from under the thumbs of the Eurodollar system banks and the den of vipers that is old European power, Besset on net seems a positive, as an American.

As a Bitcoiner, he's just another guy amassing Bitcoin and using debt to do it, like Saylor. One of those enemies it's for.