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Caitlin Long EXPOSES Wall Street Bitcoin Price Suppression

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Feb 14, 2026
Caitlin Long, Wall Street veteran turned Bitcoin advocate and founder/CEO of Custodia Bank, who helped craft Wyoming crypto laws. She discusses bank account closures driving crypto adoption. They cover tokenization of deposits, Bitcoin’s settlement and market dynamics, risks from financialization, Lightning and layer‑2 UX, and Bitcoin’s path toward reserve‑asset status.
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INSIGHT

Bitcoin As A Market Risk Barometer

  • Bitcoin acts as a 24/7 risk barometer that often leads markets during off-hours, not yet a universal safe haven.
  • Caitlin expects Bitcoin may become a true safe haven only in extreme systemic stress.
ANECDOTE

2008 Trading-Floor Lessons

  • Caitlin recalls working on the Morgan Stanley trading floor during the 2008 crisis and seeing banks' liquidity differences firsthand.
  • That experience pushed her to study alternative economic theories and later Bitcoin adoption.
INSIGHT

Atomic Settlement Is The True North

  • Distributed ledgers remove duplicate reconciliation by enabling atomic real-time settlement for payments.
  • Caitlin expects banks will adopt distributed architectures to get the internet benefit for money.
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