{"id":65887,"date":"2025-12-31T18:01:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T18:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=65887"},"modified":"2025-12-31T18:01:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T18:01:31","slug":"is-the-bitcoin-price-manipulated-strategy-cfo-addresses-the-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=65887","title":{"rendered":"Is The Bitcoin Price \u2018Manipulated\u2019? Strategy CFO Addresses The Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bitcoin\u2019s late-year slump has revived a familiar online refrain that the market is \u201ccontrolled\u201d and price is being suppressed but Strategy CFO Andrew Kang said the manipulation thesis doesn\u2019t square with Bitcoin\u2019s scale, and that even large, highly liquid public vehicles struggle to move the needle.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Natalie Brunell\u2019s Coin Stories in an interview dated Dec. 30, Kang framed recent bearish sentiment as less about Bitcoin-specific weakness and more about how the asset still trades within a broader risk regime shaped by macro uncertainty, rate expectations, and tech volatility.<\/p>\n

Is The Bitcoin Price \u2018Manipulated\u2019?<\/h2>\n

Brunell asked Kang to address speculation that Bitcoin has been manipulated<\/a> \u201cover the last quarter or so,\u201d a narrative some commentators tie to the Oct. 10 liquidation event and the timing of an MSCI memo<\/a> about potential index methodology changes for digital-asset-treasury companies.<\/p>\n

Kang didn\u2019t rule out that some actors may want to influence markets, but he dismissed the idea of a coordinated, systemic suppression plan as implausible at Bitcoin\u2019s current market size.<\/p>\n

\u201cI honestly, you know, I think a lot of that comes from things that are fun to talk about,\u201d Kang said. \u201cCould there be minds that think like that? Most likely. But I think for the scale in which we operate, the magnitude of what Bitcoin is today in this market, it\u2019s hard for any one actor to really manipulate the market. And for there to be a systemic sort of plan to do that feels a little far-reaching to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added that conspiracy narratives often get stapled to Strategy itself including claims that its equity issuance or weekly buying is \u201cwhy this happened\u201d but argued that the asset has grown beyond any single corporate treasury\u2019s ability to steer price action meaningfully.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact is Bitcoin is such a big asset class now,\u201d Kang said. \u201cEven Strategy has a hard time doing something that impacts it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Don\u2019t miss my first sit-down with Strategy CFO Andrew Kang!<\/p>\n

We discuss Strategy\u2019s plan to keep accumulating Bitcoin, the asset\u2019s underperformance in 2025, MSCI inclusion, whether there is \u201cmarket manipulation\u201d and much more. pic.twitter.com\/yqGhQHadcW<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Natalie Brunell \"\u26a1\" (@natbrunell) December 30, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Real Reasons For BTC\u2019s Price Action<\/h2>\n

Kang repeatedly returned to the idea that Bitcoin remains an \u201cemerging asset,\u201d and that volatility is a feature of its current stage of adoption rather than evidence of hidden hands. He pointed to his own entry point in 2022, a year he recalled as a harsh lesson in downside moves, and argued that today\u2019s sentiment doesn\u2019t look uniquely Bitcoin-driven.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo me [the sentiment] isn\u2019t Bitcoin specific,\u201d Kang said, describing Bitcoin as still \u201cviewed as a risk asset within a broader macro environment.\u201d He cited uncertainty around Federal Reserve policy and rate expectations next year, while emphasizing that the long-term \u201cintrinsic values\u201d Bitcoiners cite, like finite supply and store-of-value<\/a> framing, \u201cstill persist.\u201d<\/p>\n

In one of his most emphatic passages, Kang laid out a sweeping view of Bitcoin\u2019s long-run trajectory as Strategy\u2019s rationale for continuing to raise capital and add to its balance sheet.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s still more upside to Bitcoin. We know it\u2019s going to go from where it is today to, you know, back to $125K, up to $200K, up to a million, up to 21 million one day,\u201d Kang said. \u201cThat all still is going to happen. It just is going to happen over a period of time. And there\u2019s going to be volatility associated with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

At press time, BTC traded at $88,730.<\/p>\n

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Bitcoin\u2019s late-year slump has revived a familiar online refrain that the market is \u201ccontrolled\u201d and price is being suppressed but Strategy CFO Andrew Kang said the manipulation thesis doesn\u2019t square with Bitcoin\u2019s scale, and that even large, highly liquid public vehicles struggle to move the needle. Speaking on Natalie Brunell\u2019s Coin Stories in an interview […]<\/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-65887","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\/65887","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=65887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}