The EU and Michael Saylor are BOTH Setting the Same Trap

LIVE – Governments moved against sound money three different ways this week — the EU floated redirecting €10 trillion in citizen savings toward 'European companies,' the Taliban banned Bitcoin outright and arrested traders in Herat, and Strategy quietly resumed buying with 4,603 BTC for $370M. Put those side by side and the case for Bitcoin writes itself. In this Bitcast live stream we break down the August 2026 macro picture and what each of these moves tells you about who fears self-custody and why. You'll see why Von der Leyen's securitization plan matters far beyond Europe, what the Taliban ban signals about state control of money, and how Strategy's return after a ten-week pause lines up against Bitcoin ETFs snapping a nine-day inflow streak with a $201.9M outflow. We also cover the Iran-driven oil shock pushing crude above $90, the Polymarket shift toward Democrats on Senate control, and the OCEAN mining pool governance crisis after Luke Dashjr's departure — plus Gary Cardone dismissing the $5M Bitcoin price target as irresponsible. Subscribe for weekly Bitcoin-only education and live commentary: https://www.youtube.com/@BTCSessions Follow on X for real-time takes: https://x.com/BTCSessions Join the newsletter for the best Bitcoin reads of the week: https://btcsessions.ca ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Hit the bell so you never miss a live show. Like this video if you think more people need to hear this. Drop your questions in the chat — we read them live. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FOLLOW BTC Sessions on X: x.com/BTCsessions ——————————— SHOW SPONSORS: BITCOIN WELL BUY BITCOIN https://qrco.de/bfiDC6 ABUNDANT MINES: https://qrco.de/bgYKPB HODLHODL NO KYC P2P EXCHANGE https://hodlhodl.com/join/BTCSESSION DEBIFI LOANS https://qrco.de/bfiDCp BOOK Private Sessions with Nathan, Ben and the BTC Mentor Team: Master self-custody, hardware, multisig, Lightning, privacy, and more. Visit btcmentor.io