Yes and enforced by their loyal servants (aka the government).

Bro, why would you believe that they're doing so without them sharing their L1 #bitcoin addresses to confirm their holdings? IMO any company, firm or government who claims to be buying #btc should be obligated to do so. Otherwise they should be presumed to hold at best paper #btc and worse nothing at all and be working to either enrich their fiat selves, or are working for the fiat system they serve to deflect true investment away from the only real Bitcoin there is, self custody.

Ahh the good ol days!

I'm on it! 🤞

Then they fight you...

IMO they're either testing an attack vector or have started their longer term assault by attacking #bitcoin L1 self custody. in an attempt to keep their $ They're seemingly playing up the narritve that "if it's good for miners, then it's good for #btc." IMO anyone with any seriousness about the longevity of Bitcoin should immediately see through this BS. How is it good to make the smaller UTXOs economically unfeasible to move and also make 3rd world countries completely reliable on the lightning network? Most of these lightning solutions are centralized AF and the most popular ones are non self custodial so you never even have your own sats in the first place! I hate to say it by LN is only #btc when you close the channel on L1 #bitcoin..which is fine as long as it's just for your spending #btc and not for your savings which should be L1 #btc in cold storage that you created the entropy for yourself offline.

The miners supporting this attack are either short sighted or complicit with the fiat cartel. They must see that as long as the price of Bitcoin can be subservient to fiat currency then the incentive for BTC are also fiat inclined as the miners benefit from the short term fiat UOA view by people at the cost of the medium to long term success of the bitcoin UOA goal post.

While that should definitely be the eventual goal, unfortunately we can't just abandon them just yet. We need to get the masses properly orange pilled and then purpled 1st and sadly the masses are still trapped in centralized social media world.