The Cure for Financial Cancer IS on Sale—But Most People Don’t Know Their Portfolio is Sick
A metaphor to understand Wall Street's Lack of Real Demand for Bitcoin
Imagine a world where a miracle cure for cancer exists—but almost nobody realizes they have the disease.
Only 21 million vials of this cure exist or ever will be made, and 8 billion people may one day need it.
Each vial is composed of exactly 100 million micro doses—small enough to be divided, shared, and acquired at fractions of a penny. Unlike traditional medicine, which requires prescriptions, gatekeepers, and intermediaries, this cure can be bought freely, every single day, with nobody’s permission but your own.
Once you own your accumulated micro-doses or whole vials, they can be stored forever in your personal custody, ensuring they remain yours no matter what happens to governments, banks, hospitals, or financial institutions.
But here’s the real problem: the doctors who know it exists and could be administering this life-saving cure aren’t actually giving it to patients. Instead, they’re standing around the hospital bed, trading paper representations of the vials back and forth for profit, collecting yield payments off the demand from the sick—without ever taking or administering the cure themselves.
This is exactly what’s happening with Wall Street’s “adoption” of Bitcoin ETFs or MSTR stock today.
The $448 Trillion Tumor That Can’t Be Removed Overnight
The global financial system is a $450 trillion patient—and $448 trillion of that is a tumor made up of fiat debasement (inflation), leveraged debt, and centralized monetary corruption. In other words, the global monetary system is one ginormous cancerous mass and your entire portfolio is part of it.
You can’t just cut the tumor out overnight (like #EndtheFed activists want)—too many financial blood vessels, debt instruments, and economic systems are tangled within it. You would kill the patient. The tumor is everywhere, from government bonds and central bank policies to the “risk-free” games played by hedge funds on Wall Street.
Meanwhile, Bitcoin stands outside of this diseased system. It is a relatively new monetary network (16 years versus 112 years old Fed), a truly global settlement layer, and a cancer-free financial protocol that exists independently of the fiat tumor.
But for Bitcoin to truly take over, real demand for its cure must replace Wall Street’s financial games trading its price action in fiat —just as real treatment is needed to heal a sick patient instead of just trading claims on the medicine for profit.
Wall Street’s Game: Trading the Cure Instead of Owning It
The financial media is hyping record inflows into Bitcoin ETFs. The narrative? Wall Street is embracing Bitcoin, institutions are pouring in, and mass adoption is happening. Not totally untrue, but misleading at best.
As the brilliant analysts
, and Markus Thielen of revealed this week, this isn’t the full picture:Only 44% of Bitcoin ETF inflows come from real investors—people who actually want to hold Bitcoin.
56% of inflows are hedge fund arbitrage plays—meaning most “institutional demand” is just traders playing a risk-free game that has nothing to do with Bitcoin’s long-term value.
Here’s how the game works:
They buy Bitcoin ETFs (which hold actual Bitcoin).
They short Bitcoin futures on the CME (Chicago Mercantile Exchange).
They lock in a “risk-free” profit from the price difference between spot and futures markets.
This is called a basis trade — a safe, predictable way to extract yield without taking real exposure to Bitcoin itself. They don’t care if Bitcoin succeeds or fails.
It’s like doctors in a hospital flipping vials of the cure among themselves for profit instead of administering them to the patients who actually need them.
Wall Street Won’t Tell You That You Need to Own Bitcoin—But You Do
Just like a patient who doesn’t realize they have the cure for cancer right in front of them and don't need the doctor, most people don’t see the monetary disease they’re living in as Wall Street has mastered the art of packaging financial products and selling them to people. Bitcoin doesn’t have a sales force and doesn’t need one because true Bitcoiners (those who own it) help others find their way without commission because it’s the right thing to do. But just like the cure for cancer would make the doctor less relevant, Bitcoin itself makes Wall Street’s way of monetizing it less necessary.
Most people don’t realize their fiat money is being debased every year through inflation programmatically by the Fed’s very design.
They don’t understand how central banks engineer boom-and-bust cycles to keep control.
They assume Wall Street is driving Bitcoin’s price higher because they believe in it — when in reality, they’re just trading the price action. The true Bitcoiners will “hodl” through every cycle and “buy the dip” are what drive the true price appreciation of this scarce asset.
The difference between owning Bitcoin in self-custody and trading its price through Wall Street ETFs is the difference between owning your own vial of the cure and watching hedge funds trade it over your hospital bed while you lie there wondering if you will make it.
If you hold your actual Bitcoin in cold storage, it’s yours. No bank, no government, and no financial crisis can take it from you.
Bitcoin Ownership: Your Financial Dose That Lasts Forever
Those who realize the truth aren’t just looking for short-term price swings — they’re securing their own financial dose of something scarce, independent, and immune to fiat corruption. In short, they are preserving their future wealth and economic freedom.
Although none of us will live forever, owning actual Bitcoin rather than trading it is the only way to ensure that our portfolio and wealth survive long after we’re gone.
Those who strive to own as many micro-doses or entire vials as possible instead of just trading the price action of the actual scarce asset are securing generational wealth that will persist beyond their individual lifetimes.
Bitcoin requires nobody’s permission to own. It doesn’t rely on Wall Street’s games, central banks’ policies, or hedge funds’ arbitrage tricks. It belongs only to those who hold it.
And just like passing down generational wealth, your Bitcoin will still exist decades from now, ready to be handed to your family long after your time is up.
The Real Choice: Be the Patient or the Healer
The world has two kinds of people:
Those who recognize the financial disease and secure their cure early.
Those who deny reality until it’s too late.
You don’t need permission to opt out of the fiat system. You don’t need a hedge fund’s approval to own Bitcoin instead of just trading its price action.
The financial system won’t tell you that you need Bitcoin. But that doesn’t mean you don’t.
The question is: Will you secure your vial while you still can?
Yours in Wealth and Health,
~Chris J Snook
Key Terms & Definitions From the Article:
For those new to Bitcoin and financial markets, here are some key terms from this article:
1. Self-Custody
Self-custody means holding your Bitcoin in a wallet you control, rather than trusting an exchange or financial institution.
2. Cold Storage
Cold storage refers to keeping Bitcoin offline, in a secure hardware or paper wallet, to protect it from hackers and exchange failures.
3. Economic Sovereignty
Owning Bitcoin in self-custody provides economic sovereignty, meaning financial independence from governments, banks, and centralized institutions.
Bitcoin Magazine: What Is Economic Sovereignty?
4. Decentralization
Bitcoin operates on a decentralized network, meaning no single entity controls it. This prevents manipulation and censorship.
🔗 Investopedia: Decentralization
5. Whole Coiners
A “wholecoiner” is someone who owns at least one full Bitcoin—an entire vial of the financial cure, rather than just fractions of a micro dose.
Bitcoin Magazine - What does it mean to be a wholecoiner?
6. HODL
Originally a typo of “hold,” HODL has become a mantra meaning “Hold On for Dear Life”—a strategy of keeping Bitcoin long-term rather than trading it for short-term gains.
ETF (Exchange-Traded Fund) – An ETF is a type of investment fund that trades on stock exchanges, much like a stock. A Bitcoin ETF allows investors to gain exposure to Bitcoin's price movements without actually holding Bitcoin themselves. ETFs can be spot-based (holding actual Bitcoin) or futures-based (derivatives tracking Bitcoin prices).