🚨 Trump Media reportedly sold $165 million worth of Bitcoin.
The irony is impossible to ignore.
The company tied to the man widely seen as the most pro-crypto U.S. president is now making headlines for a massive BTC sale. Politics may shape narratives, but markets follow actions, liquidity, and strategy.
In crypto, don't just listen to what people say—watch what they do.
I’m noticing how quickly crypto turns a very small number into the word “trustless.”
I was reading about BitVM3’s cut-and-choose setup and stopped at 2^-40: roughly one chance in a trillion. My first reaction was, that’s basically zero. Then I caught myself.
I’ve seen this before. Crypto has a habit of taking something technically true and smoothing over the trade-offs until they almost disappear.
Bitcoin isn’t giving the vault the exact same kind of guarantee. Its settlement sits underneath, while BitVM3 adds another layer with its own assumptions, probabilities, timing, challengers, and fraud-proof game.
That doesn’t make it bad. If anything, something about this feels different because the uncertainty is actually acknowledged instead of hidden behind a multisig or some trusted committee. But I can’t help noticing how easily “backed by Bitcoin” makes those separate guarantees sound like one.
I keep wondering what happens when this stops being about a single vault. One in a trillion feels meaningless on its own. But what about thousands of vaults, more value, and years of people leaning on the same assumptions? Does that tiny margin stay tiny, or does the conversation eventually shift somewhere else?
I’m not sure yet. I just know I’ve been around long enough to be cautious whenever an impressive number starts sounding like the end of the discussion.🤔