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Specialist index providers threatened to exclude Bitcoin-related assets, risking multi-billion dollar passive outflows. Meanwhile, failures to deliver on derivatives contracts signaled mounting pressure on physical Bitcoin and the institutions attempting to dominate its narrative.

Historical Parallels: Centralization and Suppression

This pattern echoes over a century of systemic control. In the early 1900s, the shift from decentralized local banking and barter systems to centralized, industrialized finance prompted a series of consolidations: Rockefeller’s influence on medicine, standardization of education, and monopolization of agriculture. Each step aimed to suppress alternatives, centralize power, and control the narrative.