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Feb 25, 2026 1 hr 21 min

94: Cope, Narratives, and Dark Pools

from This Week in Bitcoin

Bitcoiners find evidence of market manipulation, and Wall Street calls it liquidity. This week: dark pools, Jane Street, AI capital rotation, and why two things can be true at the same time. Episode Links 🇺🇸 Buy Sats on River - The best way to stack in the US 🇨🇦 The Bitcoin Well - An amazing automatic self-custody Bitcoin platform ⚡ The Bitcoin Company - Spending your Bitcoin Via Lightning 🏦 Fold Card - Pay bills Stack Sats 💵 SALT Lending - Get access to your BTC Value w/out Selling Boost Question Is AI impacting YOUR job right now in any way? 🧠 Jane Street & Market Structure Jane Street Accused of Insider Trading That Helped Collapse Terraform (WSJ) Jane Street Barred from Indian Markets by SEBI (CNBC) Jane Street Faces Insider Trading Claims Over Terraform Collapse (CoinDesk) Jane Street Sued for Crypto Insider Trading in Terraform Collapse (ZeroHedge) Terraform Estate Sues Jane Street (CryptoNews) Bitcoin News Post on Jane Street Lawsuit (X) ₿ Saylor, Rehypothecation & Price Dynamics Michael Saylor Interview: Bitcoin, Quantum Debate & Market Criticism (Fountain) Bitcoin Price Suppression and Rehypothecation Discussion (Medium / Coinmonks) Updates Mt. Gox Collapse — Full Story (Stacker News) Strike Line of Credit Announcement (Primal) Bitkiwi Meetup — March 7, 2026 (New Zealand) Pasadena Linux Party, Fri, Mar 6, 2026, 6:00 PM Music All’s Well That Ends — Justin Lantrip (Podcast Index)

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94: Cope, Narratives, and Dark Pools

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  1. 0:35 Proving Bitcoin Price Suppression
  2. 1:07 Jane Street: Special Ops Investor
  3. 11:10 If the AI Pump Fades, So Will Bitcoin
  4. 12:18 Wall Street Fears AI Disruption
  5. 16:16 The Lump of Labor Fallacy
  6. 20:12 Bitcoin's Brutal Start to the Year
  7. 29:53 The Problem of Re-Hypothecated Bitcoin
  8. 36:15 Listener Boosts
  9. 1:00:38 12 Years Since the Mt. Gox Collapse
  10. 1:04:30 Strike Line of Credit
  11. 1:11:59 Eric Balchunas on Bitcoin
  12. 1:16:21 Alls Well That Ends by Justin Lantrip

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