Bitcoin

In the current extreme fear environment (Fear & Greed at 11), markets are hyper-sensitive to macro shocks but desensitized to isolated political noise. Any erosion of institutional trust from opaque government tenders is a second-order, marginal factor compared to rate decisions and on-chain liquidation cascades.

Jillian Segal hired Yaron Finkelstein's company on a $200,000 contract without a public tender process, citing absence of competition.