{"id":89096,"date":"2025-07-07T17:37:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T05:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bravenewcoin.com\/?p=89096"},"modified":"2025-07-07T17:37:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T05:37:55","slug":"elons-america-party-has-a-satoshi-sized-plank-why-musk-is-betting-on-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bravenewcoin.com\/insights\/elons-america-party-has-a-satoshi-sized-plank-why-musk-is-betting-on-bitcoin","title":{"rendered":"Elon\u2019s America Party Has a Satoshi-Sized Plank: Why Musk Is Betting on Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Party Built on Fiscal Fury<\/b><\/p>\n

Musk\u2019s jump into politics was triggered when his <\/span>sometime-buddy-turned-nemesis<\/span><\/a> Donald Trump rammed the $3.4 trillion \u201cBig, Beautiful Bill\u201d through Congress last week, ballooning the U.S. deficit past $36 trillion. Musk called the package a \u201cdisgusting abomination\u201d and unveiled the America Party as a <\/span>protest vehicle<\/span><\/a> promising to target a handful of razor-thin House and Senate races to become a swing-vote king-maker.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\"\u201cFiat<\/p>\n

The X Post that signals Elon Might be Reengaging with Bitcoin, Source: <\/span><\/i>X<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

Elon + Bitcoin: A Love Story With Mood Swings<\/b><\/h3>\n

This isn\u2019t Musk\u2019s first dance with the orange coin. He parked $1.5 billion of <\/span>Tesla\u2019s<\/span><\/a> treasury into BTC in February 2021, briefly accepted it for Model Ys, freaked out over coal-powered mining, then yanked the checkout button 49 days later.<\/span>
\n<\/span> By July 2022 Tesla <\/span>
off-loaded<\/span><\/a> 75 percent of its stash\u2014blaming China\u2019s COVID lockdowns\u2014yet it still holds about 10 k BTC worth $1.05 billion today and didn\u2019t sell a satoshi in Q1 2025.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The environmental about-face may be moot now. Independent audits show Bitcoin mining has crossed the 50 percent renewable-energy threshold Musk demanded before re-opening Tesla\u2019s checkout cart.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Capitol<\/p>\n

Bitcoin is sitting pretty above $109,000 looking primed for new all-time highs, Source: BNC Bitcoin Liquid Index<\/a><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Why Back Bitcoin <\/b>Now<\/i><\/b>? Follow the Money, Honey<\/b><\/h3>\n
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  1. Post-Halving Scarcity.<\/b> The April 2024 halving chopped new supply to 3.125 BTC every ten minutes. Historically, price lag-pumps follow 9-18 months later\u2014right when the 2026 mid-terms would heat up.<\/span> \n

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  2. Institutional Floodgates.<\/b> U.S. spot ETFs have sucked up $49 billion year-to-date, with BlackRock\u2019s iShares fund now fatter than the largest gold ETF. That\u2019s a structural demand hose Musk can ride instead of fight.<\/span> \n

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  3. Bitcoin \u2248 Fiscal Hedge.<\/b> As Trump\u2019s mega-bill detonates the deficit and the Fed tip-toes toward rate cuts, hard-capped Bitcoin looks downright Protestant next to the drunken-sailor dollar.<\/span>\n

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  4. Price Sweet-Spot.<\/b> BTC hovers around $110 k\u2014just shy of its May 22 all-time high of $112 k\u2014after a 15 percent YTD climb. That leaves upside if ETFs keep vacuuming supply or if Washington\u2019s debt binge accelerates the flight to hard assets.<\/span>\n

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    Political Upside for Musk<\/b><\/h3>\n

    Third parties usually fail, but Musk is playing disruptor, not president. Capture <\/span>three<\/span><\/i> Senate seats, torch the filibuster lock, and every future spending bill needs America-Party sign-off. Rallying the Bitcoin base\u2014influencers, HODLer-millennials, and Silicon Valley treasurers\u2014gives him cash, volunteers, and a meme-army no super-PAC can match. Mark Cuban and Anthony Scaramucci are already circling.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

    The Contrarian Caveats<\/b><\/h3>\n
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    • Volatility Tax:<\/b> Asking swing-state retirees to park savings in a 70 vol asset is a hard sell if BTC revisits $80 k.<\/span>\n

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    • Reg-Risk:<\/b> A pro-Bitcoin party invites scrutiny from an SEC still suing exchanges like it\u2019s on commission.<\/span>\n

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    • Tesla Distraction:<\/b> Wall St. analysts downgraded TSLA this week, fretting that Musk is adding \u201cpolitical hobbyist\u201d to his 17-item job description.<\/span>\n

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      Elon Musk just stapled Bitcoin to a political manifesto, framing it as the monetary antidote to bipartisan debt addiction. Love him or loathe him, the move forces U.S. voters\u2014and every candidate in 2026\u2014to pick a side in the fiat-versus-finite debate. For investors, it\u2019s one more structural tailwind in a year already stacked with ETF inflows, supply shocks, and trillion-dollar deficits. If you believe Musk\u2019s track record of dragging fringe tech into the mainstream, front-running the America Party\u2019s orange wave might be the most American trade you can make. Yes indeed, it might be the right time to buy Bitcoin.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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      \u201cFiat is hopeless, so yes.\u201d With that five-word mic-drop reply on X, Elon Musk confirmed that his freshly hatched America Party will champion Bitcoin as a core policy\u2014because apparently rearranging the two-party furniture isn\u2019t enough; he wants to orange-pill Capitol Hill. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1295,"featured_media":89098,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bravenewcoin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bravenewcoin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bravenewcoin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bravenewcoin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1295"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bravenewcoin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bravenewcoin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89100,"href":"https:\/\/bravenewcoin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89096\/revisions\/89100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bravenewcoin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bravenewcoin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bravenewcoin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bravenewcoin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}