{"id":16233,"date":"2025-03-05T10:02:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T10:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=16233"},"modified":"2025-03-05T10:02:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T10:02:29","slug":"mike-alfred-says-wall-street-giants-are-targeting-michael-saylor-led-mstr-by-driving-bitcoin-lower-critic-dismisses-it-as-conspiratorial-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=16233","title":{"rendered":"Mike Alfred Says Wall Street Giants Are Targeting Michael Saylor-Led MSTR By Driving Bitcoin Lower: Critic Dismisses It As &#8216;Conspiratorial Thinking&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Renowned investor and <strong>Bitcoin <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) backer <strong>Mike Alfred <\/strong>accused Wall Street giants of manipulating the apex cryptocurrency\u2019s price to pressure proxy companies like\u00a0<strong>Strategy Inc<\/strong>.\u00a0(NASDAQ:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/MSTR#NASDAQ\">MSTR<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened:<\/strong>\u00a0In an X post on Monday, Alfred, a former tech CEO,  stated that big companies on Wall Street  were intentionally driving down Bitcoin prices to target the <strong>Michael Saylor<\/strong>-led company and others that have significant Bitcoin holdings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they can bring BTC\u00a0down far enough, it kills\u00a0the easy capital markets regime\u00a0these companies are accessing to\u00a0add BTC,\u201d Alfred stated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MartyParty,<\/strong>\u00a0a widely-followed cryptocurrency influencer, wrote \u201cWintermute\u201d while responding to the post, suggesting a potential involvement of the leading cryptocurrency market maker. Interestingly, MartyParty also linked Wintermute with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/24\/08\/40183310\/bitcoin-ethereum-etfs-show-signs-of-recovery-in-tuesday-premarket-after-mondays-market-cra\">\u201cBlack Monday\u201d crash<\/a> last month, although nothing has been proven yet.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I am seeing signs that large Wall Street players are trying to bring down Bitcoin to put pressure on MSTR and other levered proxies. It &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/25\/03\/44135791\/investor-mike-alfred-alleges-wall-street-giants-are-targeting-michael-saylor-led-strategy-by-driving-bitcoin-lowe\" alt=\"Mike\" alfred says wall street giants are targeting michael saylor-led mstr by driving bitcoin lower: critic dismisses it as thinking>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned investor and Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) backer Mike Alfred accused Wall Street giants of manipulating the apex cryptocurrency\u2019s price to pressure proxy companies like\u00a0Strategy Inc.\u00a0(NASDAQ:MSTR). What Happened:\u00a0In an X post on Monday, Alfred, a former tech CEO, stated that big companies on Wall Street were intentionally driving down Bitcoin prices to target the Michael Saylor-led [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-16233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}