Blackrock disclaiming the 21m cap makes no sense from an educated bitcoiner perspective. It does make sense from a fiat brained perspective.

They already laid the groundwork for this scam. Their ETF already disclaims that in a hard fork event they will be forced to choose which to hodl in the ETF and which to dump. By contract you agree to by buying IBIT, they are not liable for any losses yoy incur if they choose the less profitable fork.

That means they can fork to create IBTC with a 42m cap and sell all of the real BTC to line their own pockets with fiat. Wait a year or so, and launch a new bitcoin ETF. Repeat forever.

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No one who runs a node would ever want to HF to dilute themselves, and in the process, undermine the inflation schedule everyone's been opting into since 2009.

Unless, ofc, one expects to find it more profitable to spin off a shitcoin that one can exert undue influence over. S2X companies were in this position in 2017, had their own client and repository, and pulled out at the last minute b/c they realized that being out of consensus is gonna be more costly than they were expecting. Ver & crew tried it anyway, to their detriment.

If I were a betting man, which I am, I'd say it's realistic to expect Blackrock to try this at least once. Beauty of hodling your own sats is that you share in the outcome of both sides...bitcoin and cuckcoin/inflationcoin/happycoin/ESGcoin/Larrycoin

If they get it but are evil, they could pocket the bitcoin after their IBIT hard fork.

"We never bothered to sell because we felt strongly it was worthless and our version was better"

IBIT expense ratio a little more than 12 basis points in that case...

It doesn't make any sense for Blackrock to shatter any and all confidence in BTC or their fund by fucking around. Sitting around and collecting fees is the easiest job in the world. Why risk fucking it all up?

531k bitcoin with full legal deniability.