{"id":36895,"date":"2025-07-15T04:46:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T04:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=36895"},"modified":"2025-07-15T04:46:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T04:46:45","slug":"bitcoin-treasury-companies-play-like-ponzi-built-on-a-pyramid-says-peter-schiff-economist-warns-wild-centralized-speculation-eroding-btcs-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=36895","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Treasury Companies&#8217; Play Like &#8216;Ponzi Built On A Pyramid,&#8217; Says Peter Schiff; Economist Warns &#8216;Wild Centralized Speculation&#8217; Eroding BTC&#8217;s Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Economist and market commentator <strong>Peter Schiff<\/strong> critiqued Monday what he perceived as <strong>Bitcoin\u2019s <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) shift from decentralized adoption to centralized buying by treasury companies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened:<\/strong>\u00a0In an X post, Schiff expressed his views on the current state of Bitcoin demand. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBitcoin demand has shifted to Bitcoin treasury companies and speculators looking to front-run that buying,\u201d Schiff argued. \u201cThis is a Ponzi built on a pyramid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schiff also aimed at Bitcoin supporters who frequently espouse the asset\u2019s decentralized origins, saying, \u201cIt&#8217;s not about broadening Bitcoin adoption \u2014 it&#8217;s about wild centralized speculation that undermines Bitcoin&#8217;s foundational principles.\u201d<\/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\">Bitcoin demand has shifted to Bitcoin treasury companies and speculators looking to front-run that buying. This is a Ponzi &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/07\/46407683\/bitcoin-treasury-companies-play-like-ponzi-built-on-a-pyramid-says-peter-schiff-economist-w\" alt=\"Bitcoin\" treasury companies play like built on a pyramid says peter schiff economist warns centralized speculation eroding btc foundation>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economist and market commentator Peter Schiff critiqued Monday what he perceived as Bitcoin\u2019s (CRYPTO: BTC) shift from decentralized adoption to centralized buying by treasury companies. What Happened:\u00a0In an X post, Schiff expressed his views on the current state of Bitcoin demand. \u201cBitcoin demand has shifted to Bitcoin treasury companies and speculators looking to front-run that [&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-36895","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\/36895","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=36895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}