Eli Ben-Sasson reflects on bear market from stormy seas, calls TradFi's grip a crushing bear hug

Ben-Sasson told Saylor back in January that Bitcoin's ossification is turning it into "another Rolex" — now he's shipping STRK20 privacy as a direct counter to TradFi surveillance rails. 2022's bear was fraud exposure (FTX, Luna); this one is domestication, and that's harder to recover from ideologically. STRK sitting at $0.037 while he preaches disruption over absorption is the tension nobody in that thread wants to address — but if compliance-heavy tokenization keeps leaking position data on transparent chains, the ZK privacy play might age better than the market thinks.

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