During the ETF approval process, the Securities and Exchange Commission tasked their research department with learning the details about bitcoin. The researchers were so impressed by bitcoin's mechanisms that they decided to go against Gensler's direction, and secretly participate in the network directly. To this day the SEC mining pool retains 1% of the hashrate. image
If you thought the moon temporarily eclipsing the sun was a cool, rare event: Keep an eye out tomorrow, when you can watch live as bitcoin permanently eclipses gold in terms of stock-to-flow ratio, officially dethroning the commodity leader for millennia. Like the solar eclipse, we could predict this event many years in advance, because bitcoin has transparent and reliable rules which could be compared to the laws of physics.