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I wonder if the U.S. government could strive for some cooperation/influence in the MSTR company, similar to what they are doing with Starlink and SpaceX. Since the idea of a bitcoin reserve was brought up in the recent past, they might as well support the strongest player in the world as MSTR is U.S. based anyway. Does that make any sense or what do you guys think? Behind the scenes a lot of things could be going on and I sometimes feel the government doesn't want to take the active role in some things, similar to their cooperation with Starlink. They can always say "we have nothing to do with it, it is the entrpreneur Elon Musk making the decisions".
This is also beyond my pay grade, to the extent that it matters, and surely Saylor talks a pretty BIG pro-USA and/or patriotic game, and so he might not even mind if his company were to be co-opted by the USA government out of national security interests/concerns. I am not suggesting that anything like that is soon within the cards, yet there could be some point that aspects of the USA government could become worried about the amount of capital that Saylor and his company is amassing. At a certain point (if it has not already crossed such threshold), the thing that Saylor is doing becomes too large too ignore. Some folks consider that Saylor might be doing these things on purpose as a kind of government plant.
This is intriguing to think about because does anyone really think that corporations in the USA can thrive to an extend that they reach critical size without going noticed by the government? I don't think so. My take is that the USA is fine if the private sector builds companies like SpaceX, which controls over 60% of the satellite distribution in space and cooperates closely with the Pentagon. Now the US government can claim that they have nothing to do with it, it is the private sector. That's what they tell when other countries like Russia should complain. The US government gives Musk grants, all kinds of aid and financial support programs.
What's better than a private corporation within the USA amassing a strategically relevant amount of BTC, with whatever help or forms of support other than money the government can provide, if the government has a close eye on it, is in close touch with the MSTR leadership long before anyone knows about it or will ever get to hear about it? I just can't imagine that the Pentagon was sitting there and then realized: "oh my gosh, we just noticed that Musk controls over 60% of space". In space, which is interesting,
space is limited. Yes, in space, space is limited for new satellites to be launched. Which means once SpaceX has positioned satellites in a certain sphere with a very specific technology suitable for that sphere, no other satellites can be placed there. It is a concept of scarcity to some degree. But would they allow any private corporation that they have no serious access to, to build a satellite fortress over decades until they finally take action?
I know it is all speculation, but I doubt it. As you said, it is beyond our pay grade. But building a strategic reserve can be done in a type of shadow mode. It doesn't send a particular signals to the public, a set of signals that a government would perhaps be interested to avoid sending. Neither opponents nor advocates of BTC can complain because it is a private corporation amassing a huge amount of BTC. Governments from abroad may suspect something, but never know for sure. And a set of rules could have been in place for an eternity already without anyone ever finding out except for the government and someone like Saylor.
It would not be the first time that the US government has used private corporations to hide government operations. MSTR with the pace at which they are acquiring BTC and the picture they represent in public, I think they would be a great fit for this kind of approach to somehow getting a strategically relevant amount of BTC under control within the USA without the government having to lean too far out the window, or lean out at all.
But yes again, don't attack me here for sharing some of my conspiracy thoughts!
I just think it is unlikely that they would go and say:"We hereby announce the future acquisition of a strategic reserve in the amount of 1,000,000 BTC".
