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US President Donald Trump just added Bitcoin to the US Strategic Reserve, but Arthur Hayes isn’t buying the hype. He sees it as political posturing and a way to woo crypto voters ahead of the 2026 midterms while doing the bare minimum to keep inflation under control. In an exclusive interview with Cryptopolitan, Arthur Hayes—CIO of Maelstrom, co-founder of BitMEX and one of the most outspoken figures in the crypto world—doesn’t mince words when it comes to the future of BTC and all the things that are weighing it down. With US-China tensions rising and tariffs making a comeback, could Bitcoin become a weapon in the new Cold War? Let’s dig in more with Hayes who thinks China might already be ahead in the BTC accumulation race. Bitcoin’s Wall Street takeover? With Bitcoin ETFs, institutional adoption, and political backing, many are celebrating what seems like the asset’s golden era. However, Hayes sees the flip side, warning that this mainstreaming could strip BTC of its rebel DNA and turn it into just another Wall Street asset. He believes that “Bitcoin is a bearer asset with a finite supply that cannot be altered by government or central bank diktat. It is the complete opposite of any TradFi asset which, even if it is in finite supply like equities, relies on the legal fiction woven by governments and enforced by men with guns.” We asked him if big banks would kill off stablecoin issuers like Tether or if regulators could shut down all stablecoins, bank-issued or not. He stood firm on Tether’s survival and highlighted that Tether is too big to kill because a disorderly unwind of their hundreds of billions of dollars worth of US Treasury securities would roil the market. “Tether is mostly used by non-Americans, US bank will issue a…

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