CEO Strike Jack Mallers: Bitcoin (BTC) Bisa Mengembalikan Waktu Manusia

COINOTAG · 2026-09-15T07:59:35.000Z

• CEO Strike Jack Mallers berargumen bahwa Bitcoin dan AI dapat membebaskan manusia dari biaya waktu akibat uang yang buruk. • Bitcoin naik sekitar 25% pada bulan Agustus, bulan terkuatnya sepanjang 2026 dan Agustus positif pertama sejak 2021. • Pasar suku bunga memperhitungkan peluang 89% untuk kenaikan suku bunga acuan The Fed sebesar 25 basis poin pada 16 September. Kasus Hard-Money Mallers CEO Strike, Jack Mallers, pada Senin berargumen bahwa Bitcoin (BTC), bekerja bersama kecerdasan buatan, dapat mengembalikan waktu kepada orang-orang yang diam-diam diambil oleh uang inflasioner. Dalam sebuah wawancara yang disiarkan televisi, Mallers memandang uang sebagai “waktu dan energi kita dalam bentuk yang diabstraksikan,” kebaikan pasar yang mewakili kerja manusia itu sendiri. Ketika uang itu buruk, katanya, uang tersebut bersifat merusak: orang harus bekerja lebih lama dan lebih keras untuk membeli rumah, mengambil liburan, atau menyisihkan waktu untuk kegiatan artistik. Sebaliknya, uang yang baik memberi imbalan pada waktu dan energi yang dipakai dengan baik — dan aset berbasis proof-of-work, yang dipasangkan dengan AI dalam ceritanya, bisa membebaskan manusia dari “kesibukan membosankan” akibat dolar yang nilainya menyusut, sebuah tesis yang selaras dengan maksimalisme Bitcoin. Ia menyinggung Wright bersaudara, yang berhasil mencapai penerbangan berdaya saat Amerika Serikat masih berada di standar emas.

• Strike CEO Jack Mallers argued Bitcoin and AI could free humans from bad money's time costs.
• Bitcoin gained about 25% in August, its strongest month of 2026 and first positive August since 2021.
• Rate markets priced an 89% chance of a 25-basis-point Fed hike for September 16.
Mallers' Hard-Money Case
Strike CEO Jack Mallers argued on Monday that Bitcoin (BTC), working alongside artificial intelligence, could hand people back the time that inflationary money quietly takes from them. Speaking in a televised interview, Mallers framed money as “our time and energy in an abstracted form,” the market good that represents human labor itself. When the money is bad, he said, it is destructive: people must work longer and harder to buy a house, take a vacation or carve out hours for artistic pursuits. Good money, by contrast, rewards time and energy well spent — and the proof-of-work asset, paired with AI in his telling, could free humans from the “drudgery” of a depreciating dollar, a thesis in line with Bitcoin maximalism. He pointed to the Wright brothers, who achieved powered flight while the United States was still on a gold standard.
The comments landed as the Bitcoin market came off its strongest stretch in years. Bitcoin gained roughly 25% in August — its best month of 2026 and first positive August since 2021 — closing near $78,000. The rally followed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's decision to expand long-dated bond buybacks, which pulled yields lower and forced billions of dollars in short positions to unwind. With that, the debasement trade — traders buying gold or the leading cryptocurrency to hedge against a weakening dollar — was back in the headlines. The dollar slid on the buyback news and on an announcement that same week that US debt had crossed the $40 trillion mark. Calling the debt load unsustainable, Mallers said the hike-versus-cut debate misses the point: “It’s all inflationary and it’s all untenable.” Friday's data showed core consumer prices, excluding food and energy, climbed 0.3% on the month in August — hotter than expected — leaving the Federal Reserve widely expected to raise rates this week as oil prices surge.
Fed Hike Odds Near 89%
Bitcoin itself spent Monday trading near $77,600, pinned below the $80,000 line after dipping under $77,000 late last week, as rate markets all but sealed in a Federal Reserve hike. Producer prices rose 0.4% in August on the month and 5.4% on the year, with energy costs lifting producer inflation, and consumer prices followed a day later at 0.4% monthly and 3.4% annually. Implied odds of a 25-basis-point increase at the September 16 meeting reached 87% by September 11 and approached 89% in some gauges by Monday, while the 10-year Treasury yield pressed toward the 5% line. Rising yields squeeze the largest cryptocurrency from two directions: Treasury paper now offers a near risk-free return that competes for capital, and costlier credit raises leverage costs, dulling risk appetite across the broader altcoin market.
Institutional demand has wobbled alongside the macro repricing. In early September, Bitcoin pushed above $82,000 — its highest level in three months — with spot ETF inflows among the tailwinds, before inflation data knocked the price back under $80,000. US spot funds then shed roughly $450 million across the three sessions from September 8 to 10, and about $446 million for the full week even after flows largely balanced on September 11 — a sign that August's institutional bid faded in the second week of the month. The whipsaw is notable: just days earlier, IBIT led a $160M return into spot Bitcoin ETFs. Altcoins took heavier losses in the selloff: Zcash dropped about 12% to near $1,134, Hyperliquid lost 7%, Dogecoin roughly 6% and XRP about 3% to $1.34, while Solana tested $100 and Ethereum held comparatively steadier near $2,445. The Fed's two-day policy meeting opens September 15; the rate decision lands September 16, followed by a press conference from Fed Chair Kevin Warsh. With the hike largely priced in, attention turns to whether Warsh's language leaves the door open to further increases — and to whether the shallow dips we have tracked all month, from Amodei's AI-slowdown essay spurring defensive rotation to the Saudi pipeline drone strike, give way to a sharper correction.
Greed Holds at 69 Into FOMC
COINOTAG's own aggregate readings suggest the risk appetite behind these shallow dips is still intact: our Fear & Greed Index prints 69/100 — Greed — while Bitcoin commands 68.1% of the $2.27 trillion tracked market cap in our coin universe. The debasement bid has not blinked yet; September 16 will test whether it can survive a live rate hike.