{"id":4520,"date":"2024-12-20T06:48:04","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T06:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=4520"},"modified":"2024-12-20T06:48:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T06:48:04","slug":"blackrocks-explainer-sparks-fud-on-bitcoins-21-million-supply-cap-changes-theoretically-possible-but-unlikely-says-analyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=4520","title":{"rendered":"BlackRock&#8217;s Explainer Sparks FUD On Bitcoin&#8217;s 21 Million Supply Cap: Changes Theoretically Possible But &#8216;Unlikely,&#8217; Says Analyst"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The world&#8217;s largest asset manager, <strong>BlackRock,<\/strong> raised eyebrows on Wednesday after including a line in an explainer video that supposedly disputed <strong>Bitcoin&#8217;s <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) finite supply thesis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What happened<\/strong>: The 3-minute-long video, shared by various X users, including <strong>MicroStrategy<\/strong> co-founder <strong>Michael Saylor<\/strong>, went over the technical details of the top cryptocurrency and its value proposition.<\/p>\n<p>However, when the video reached the fixed supply part, a text disclaimer emerged, stating, &#8220;There&#8217;s no guarantee that Bitcoin&#8217;s 21 million supply cap will not be changed.&#8221;<\/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\">BlackRock explains <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bitcoin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Bitcoin<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/X2fPl8tL2s\">pic.twitter.com\/X2fPl8tL2s<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Saylor\u26a1\ufe0f (@saylor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/saylor\/status\/1869132349465829799?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 17, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>This was enough to spark anxiety among Bitcoiners. A user, going by the pseudonym <strong>The Prairie Banana, <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prairiebanana\/status\/1869717819044282606\">wondered <\/a>why such a disclaimer would be inserted.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alexander<\/strong>, another user, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/alexanderXchi\/status\/1869787473947308220\">said<\/a>, \u201cUmm, is &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/24\/12\/42609778\/blackrocks-bitcoin-explainer-casts-aspersions-on-apex-cryptos-supply-capobservers\" alt=\"BlackRock's\" explainer sparks fud on bitcoin million supply cap: changes theoretically possible but says analyst>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s largest asset manager, BlackRock, raised eyebrows on Wednesday after including a line in an explainer video that supposedly disputed Bitcoin&#8217;s (CRYPTO: BTC) finite supply thesis. What happened: The 3-minute-long video, shared by various X users, including MicroStrategy co-founder Michael Saylor, went over the technical details of the top cryptocurrency and its value proposition. [&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-4520","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\/4520","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=4520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}