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Kevin Warsh spent his confirmation hearing calling Bitcoin the new gold for investors under 40. He called it a policeman for policy. He opposed retail CBDCs. He was the crypto native Fed Chair.
Then he ran his first FOMC meeting.
Rates held. Projections hawkish. Dollar spiked. Bitcoin, gold, and silver all tumbled in unison. The first crypto native Fed Chair in history just delivered a rate decision that hit Bitcoin alongside the old guard assets he was supposed to replace.
That is the tension. Warsh the nominee could say what he wanted about Bitcoin. Warsh the Fed Chair runs an institution with a dual mandate and a hundred year playbook. The policy levers do not care about his personal views. The machine does what the machine does.
The generational shift in asset perception is real. The quote is not wrong. But the institution is bigger than the man. Every Fed Chair learns that. Warsh just learned it in his first week.
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2026-06-27 00:56:56 UTCEvent JSON
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