'This is the trigger' — Arthur Hayes says it's time to bet on Bitcoin

cointelegraph.com:

Bitcoin (BTC) faces a “trigger” moment which keeps a $1 million BTC price tag in play, one of its household names says.

In a blog post titled “The Periphery” released on Oct. 24, Arthur Hayes, former CEO of crypto exchange BitMEX, said that Bitcoin is already warning markets about the future.

With the United States increasingly invested in two new wars, the risk of escalation worldwide is growing, Hayes believes.

The timing is conspicuous — the U.S. Federal Reserve faces persisting inflation but has halted interest rate hikes, and a so-called “bear steepener” looms for the economy.

“The structural hedging needs of banks and the borrowing needs of the US war machine reflexively feed on one another in the US Treasury market,” he wrote.

The writing is already on the wall. BTC/USD is up 15% this week, and the gains followed U.S. President Joe Biden’s address to the nation on the Ukraine and Israel wars.

Now, the blog post reiterates, “directly after the Biden speech, Bitcoin – along with gold – is rallying against a backdrop of an aggressive selloff in long-end US Treasuries.”

“This isn’t speculation as to an ETF being approved – this is Bitcoin discounting a future, very inflationary global world war situation,” it continues.

Hayes is well known for his predictions of how global economics will play out post COVID-19 and subsequent inflationary era.

As part of the knock-on effects for Bitcoin, a $1 million BTC price tag is in play — something repeated on social media this week. This will come as a result of so-called yield curve control (YCC) — the ultimate move in controlled economics already beginning to rear its head in Japan.

The bond vigilantes are yelling “down with the dollar.”

Look out for my spicy essay “The Periphery”