Gold is over 50% of gold is held with governments and corporations. That percentage for Bitcoin is tiny. It's like less than 10%. I think one of Satoshi's greatest ingenious was he got it out to the people. If he went to Goldman Sachs and said, 'I solved the Byzantine general's problem. Let's IPO this thing on Wall Street.' It would have never worked. Goldman Sachs would have had a 25% pre-allocation. Wall Street would have took it public. They would have had another 25%. The fact that 90% of Bitcoin is owned with us, we did it. You cannot corner a market. In order for them to get over 50% of this asset, I think it's too far gone. My opinion is Bitcoin's neutral money. And it's antithetical. It's hypocritical for a Bitcoiner to say Bitcoin's for all. Bitcoin empowers the individual, but kick BlackRock out.
Something is shifting inside the Bitcoin world and not everyone is comfortable with it. For years, Bitcoin was the rebel asset. The one thing ordinary people owned that governments and banks could not control. It was built from the ground up, distributed quietly, and handed to the world before Wall Street even knew what was happening. That origin story is part of why so many people believe in it so deeply. But now, the same institutions Bitcoin was built to resist are lining up to get a piece of it. BlackRock, governments, corporations, the very powers that print money, debase savings, and rob future generations of human labor are now buying the asset that was supposed to protect us from all of that. And people are nervous. Bitcoiners are asking hard questions. Is Bitcoin being captured? Is Wall Street slowly swallowing the one thing that was truly ours? Jack Mallers has an answer that cuts straight through the noise, and it starts with one uncomfortable truth. He says it is hypocritical for any Bitcoiner to claim Bitcoin is for the people while simultaneously demanding that BlackRock be kicked out. Either Bitcoin is neutral money for everyone or it is not. You cannot have it both ways. And the reason he says that so confidently comes down to something Satoshi did at the very beginning that most people still have not fully appreciated. Let's hear directly from Jack Mallers for more insights. Please don't forget to like, subscribe, and enable notifications. Thanks for tuning in. Enjoy the rest of the video.
Dude, you took my next question, but I saw where you were going. I think my opinion is Bitcoin's neutral money and it's antithetical. It's hypocritical for a Bitcoiner to say Bitcoin's for all. Bitcoin empowers the individual, but kick BlackRock out. But again, a common theme here is my opinion doesn't matter. What is important is that as a free market proponent, an activist, I should express my opinion not only through my voice, but through my time, my energy, my effort, my labor, my capital. And I'm doing that. I've built Strike. I've built 21. And if I'm wrong, I will fail. And that's good. And if I'm right, I will have more capital and more money and more time and energy to continue to vote with what is more powerful than words. Words are unfortunately people have a lot of words for me. But the exchange rate in words to Bitcoin is zero. I can't stack any sats with your words, with your opinions, with your ideas. You got to do the proof of work. That's the only reason this thing works. And so my opinion is Bitcoin's neutral money. Everyone needs money. It is akin to water to a functioning society. For us to scale society, we need division of labor. We need the ability to take value we're creating now and store it into the future. That is just fact. BlackRock needs that. The US government needs that. Individuals need that. Third world countries need that. We all need that. And so the free market will figure it out. Also, part of me taking a company public was getting in their arena. I also think that Bitcoin wasn't represented properly in these circles and we wanted a voice at the table. That's also like a reality too. So I think it's important. Listen, if Bitcoin is to fail because BlackRock adopted it, it was never going to work.
Mallers, J. (2026, February 22). Jack Mallers: BlackRock Is Controlling the Bitcoin Collapse [Interview transcript]. Savvy Finance. CEOInterviews.AI. https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/719766/
MLA
Jack Mallers. "Jack Mallers: BlackRock Is Controlling the Bitcoin Collapse." Savvy Finance, 22 Feb. 2026. Transcript, CEOInterviews.AI, https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/719766/.
BibTeX
@misc{mallers2026_719766,
author = {Jack Mallers},
title = {Jack Mallers: BlackRock Is Controlling the Bitcoin Collapse},
howpublished = {Interview transcript, Savvy Finance. CEOInterviews.AI},
year = {2026},
month = {feb},
url = {https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/719766/},
note = {Speaker-attributed transcript with timestamps}
}
