The Macro Shift That Could Send Bitcoin to $500K | Matt Cole

October 5, 2026

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In 2022, when Matt Cole was helping Vivek Ramaswamy prepare for his first Bitcoin podcast appearance, Ramaswamy was not a believer. He told the host he thought the government should let people compete but that Bitcoin was not for him. Over the next year, he talked to some of the sharpest Bitcoiners in the world, publicly changed his mind, and became the first presidential candidate to speak at a Bitcoin conference. Cole, who went from managing $70 billion in U.S. Treasuries at Calpers to running Strive, a Bitcoin treasury company co-founded by Ramaswamy, tells this story to illustrate a much larger point: the same kind of conversion is happening inside the U.S. government itself. The people now running the Treasury and the White House want a weaker dollar, and that, Cole argues, is the single most powerful tailwind Bitcoin has ever had.

The Treasury Has No Good Options

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2 (00:02) **Opening Thesis: The Dollar as Release Valve** - Matt Cole lays out the core argument: the Treasury will weaken the dollar to reduce the debt load, which is the strongest determinant of Bitcoin's price.
3 (01:16) **From Calpers to Bitcoin: Matt Cole's Background** - Cole explains his traditional finance career managing $70 billion at the largest US pension fund, and how it led him to Bitcoin.
4 (06:04) **Why the Debt Crisis Cannot Be Fixed** - Cole explains the structural impossibility of fiscal discipline, even with motivated reformers like Elon Musk's DOGE.
5 (12:34) **The Bond Market: Current Position and Intervention** - Cole analyzes where US Treasury yields are now and why the Fed/Treasury must step in more aggressively.
6 (18:13) **What Breaks at 10% Yields?** - Cole explains why the US cannot tolerate 10% Treasury yields given current debt levels.
7 (20:31) **David Zervos Appointment Signals Currency Devaluation** - Cole highlights a key personnel move at Treasury that confirms the debasement thesis.

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Show Notes

“You actually have the president and the Treasury working for Bitcoin because they’re working for a weaker dollar.”

Matt Cole joins to discuss why he believes America’s debt crisis leaves the government with few good options, how rising bond yields could force the Treasury and Fed to intervene, and why a weaker dollar could fuel Bitcoin’s next bull market.

We also get into why AI could create abundance without generating enough tax revenue to fix the debt problem, his case for $500K Bitcoin by 2030, and whether Bitcoin is entering a supercycle.

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