You ignore the premise of my argument and then get lost in future price speculation...exactly as they have engineered.

'The idea that the legacy fiat powers would just sit by and allow Bitcoin to invade and takeover their hegemony is common but misguided. Faced with an asymmetric new competitor standard practice for existing monopolies and cartels is to capture and control them. This is what the bankers have done to Bitcoin...and nobody even realises.'