https://youtu.be/3LLqEIUEbRU?si=td_JR_Zi7jniTAcC

BlackRock’s suggestion to allocate only **2% of your portfolio** to Bitcoin and the new monetary system reeks of a strategic paradox. This advice subtly reinforces the narrative that you should continue holding predominantly fiat-based assets—assets whose value BlackRock has immense influence over through their intertwining relationships with central banks, governments, and the traditional financial system.

Why only 2%? Because Bitcoin represents an escape hatch, a lifeboat tethered to a fixed-supply, decentralized monetary system immune to inflationary manipulations. To advocate for more than 2% would imply acknowledging its strength and undermining the very system BlackRock benefits from. Their recommendation is not about risk management but about risk containment: containing your realization that fiat’s purchasing power has eroded by design, while Bitcoin stands as an immutable measure of time, energy, and value.

The irony of this advice is profound. BlackRock, through entities like Coinbase Custody, is pursuing control over Bitcoin infrastructure while downplaying its role as a hedge and alternative monetary system. Their message to investors essentially says, *“Stick with what we control, and dip a toe into what could undermine us—just enough to placate curiosity, not enough to challenge our dominance.”*

But the discerning observer might ask, *If 2% is safe enough for me, what does it say about the other 98% I’m holding in a system that requires constant manipulation to survive?*

Bitcoin is not merely a speculative allocation; it is an exit strategy from systems designed to favor the issuers of money over the holders of it. BlackRock knows this, and they want you to remain just inside the walls of the old system while glancing at the open door. The question is whether you’ll step through.