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Priority No. 1 for the parasitical class is now to control as much #bitcoin as possible. 

They will do a lot of harmful things to suppress the bitcoin price while they are still in control, especially before Trump becomes president again, in order to be able to buy at the lowest possible price.

If I'm right, the bitcoin price continues to develop more sideways than upwards in the coming months.

What do you think? 
 Wondering what the next “emergency” will be…… 
 You are probably right, more cheap BTC for us 
 How will the price of an global asset be kept down for elites? 
 Many options. Force someone to sell (Germany), financial market crash, war, virus, emergency measures, cause fair and uncertainty, gaslighting 
 There is no relevance to bitcoin in your argument. The simplest reply is: Game theory, it would imply that foreign governments also take advantage, which would drive up the price. (China, Russia, India etc… would be loading up on bitcoins). 

It’s more likely to me that a war or market crash is bound to happen. A virus would be commercialized by big pharma and so on. 
 They look at the big picture. Reducing demand reduces price increases reduces price spikes reduces signal to people that they should buy more 
 So you are convinced nation states such as Russia and China are ok with the Western elites going against their interests? It’s more likely they would buy the created dip to leverage their position (just look at what’s happening at the gold market). 
 Crisis would cause less demand, lower price 
 Again it would be against the interests of hostile nation states to let the “western elites” take control of bitcoin as much as possible.

Let’s agree to disagree unless you have some additional arguments backing up your claims 
 I don't understand your position. Creating negative events and news that make ordinary people abstain from buying bitcoin reduces the demand and therefore alse hampers the price increase compared to if ordinary people continued to buy. That other goverments/institutions become buyers isn't imo relevant. They will become buyers anyway, and they would probably also buy more was it not for negative events