Source trace. Via News points to the documents behind its reporting and shows what we drew from each — so you can check any claim. How we source

Source document· February 15, 2026

'Everyone Thinks Trump Is Our Friend—He's Not': Mark Yusko Exposes Crypto Reality

View original at finance.yahoo.com

'Everyone Thinks Trump Is Our Friend—He's Not': Mark Yusko Exposes Crypto Reality Benzinga and Yahoo Finance LLC may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below…

Opening lines of the source · short snapshot — read the full document at the original

What we drew from this source

The claims Via News extracted from this document. We point to the source; we don't replace it.

Institutions like Millennium buy Bitcoin ETFs but short futures to remain market neutral, suppressing prices
80% confidence
The four-year Bitcoin cycle (actually 3 years 11 months based on Bitcoin blocks) stays intact with trough arriving around September 30-October 1, 2026
80% confidence
A short squeeze is coming that will drive Bitcoin prices higher, similar to what drove gold from $2,000 to $5,000
80% confidence
JP Morgan made $20 billion from gold market spoofing while only paying $960 million in fines, treating it as cost of doing business
80% confidence
Bitcoin targets $63,000 as bottom
80% confidence
Ethereum has better odds than competitors despite higher costs and slower speeds because it has more developers, more activity, and more infrastructure already built
80% confidence
Previous Bitcoin cycles saw falls of 84% and 75% from peaks
80% confidence
If gold settles at $30 trillion market cap and Bitcoin achieves gold equivalence at $15 trillion, that reaches $750,000 per Bitcoin at 10x current levels
80% confidence
Brian Armstrong was labeled public enemy number one by Wall Street for fighting the Clarity Act
80% confidence
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and others are working with Cantor Fitzgerald and Tether on clandestine initiatives to preserve dollar hegemony and prevent China's yuan from becoming world reserve currency
80% confidence
The current version of the Clarity Act is a non-starter that takes crypto down the path of CBDCs, centralization, and control
80% confidence
President Trump has a whole different agenda for crypto focused on preserving dollar dominance, not helping crypto
80% confidence
Bitcoin will reach $600,000-$700,000 by September 2029
80% confidence
Bitcoin bottoms around $58,000-$63,000 in September 2026
80% confidence
Bitcoin only reached $126,000 versus fair value around $90,000—just 35% above fair value versus 2x in prior cycles, meaning less upside and less downside
80% confidence