Will Strike Announce A Partnership With Apple At Bitcoin 2022? Here’s The 411

March 31, 2022

Does Apple have the potential to adopt bitcoin? Something’s up with Strike’s CEO. Jack Mallers appears to be giving clues via Twitter. Next week, the Bitcoin 2022 conference takes place in Miami. Mallers announced last year that he would be attending the Bitcoin 2022 conference. El Salvador will make Bitcoin legal tender. One of the top news items in 2021. He and the other honor guests will be announcing what this time. 

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Are bitcoin-only Strikes about to announce an Apple Partnership? What would this huge news do to the stock market? Let’s analyze Mallers’ cryptic tweets and see what we come up with.

The Curious Case Of Jack Mallers’ Apple Tweets

It all started with what appears to be a teaser for Mallers’ still-untitled “Announcement Keynote” at Bitcoin 2022. “With Bitcoin as the monetary network, the financial system will be cheaper, faster, more innovative, and more inclusive,” the Strike CEO wrote. 

But what has it to do with Apple? The thing was obvious, and it wasn’t even noticed by you. In the picture, Jack Mallers’ hat features an old-school Apple logo while he’s flipping the bird to a Chase ATM.

That’s not all, is he referencing the photo of Steve Jobs flipping the bird to an IBM building? That might seem like a stretch, but that’s only because we haven’t shown you the other set of Apple-related tweets.  First, the Strike CEO posted the classic Think Different, “here’s to the crazy ones” Apple ad.

The comments exploded, the ad’s relationship with the hat’s logo wasn’t lost on people. Everyone knows the Bitcoin 2022 conference begins in about a week. Companies have already been making their announcements. Strike, Apple or something else?

Mallers decided to throw us a curveball. He posted the also classic “Got Milk” ad. Mallers may have been just watching old-fashioned advertisement.

But wait, then he tweeted a classic Steve Jobs speech in which the former Apple CEO references the “Got Milk” ads saying:

“The dairy industry tried for twenty years to convince you that milk was good for you. It’s a lie but they tried anyway. They were able to sell as many products and services as they wanted. [signalizing downward]. And then they tried “Got Milk” and the sales are going like this [signalizing upwards]. Got Milk doesn’t even talk about the product – as a matter of fact, the focus is on the absence of the product.” 

And that’s where we are with Jack Maller’s Apple tweets.

Bloomberg – Is Bloomberg implying something?

Does Bloomberg know something we don’t? The first was that they published An article titled “Apple Is Crypto’s Biggest Wild Card” in which they quote “Ric Burton, an early contributor to the Ethereum project” speculating:

“As crypto assets make up a larger portion of people’s net worth, they’ll prioritize security and privacy,” Burton says. “Cook has pushed those features from the beginning. Compared to other Big Tech players (Google, Meta), I trust Apple to do the right thing for people if it goes the crypto route.”

They published yesterday Another article, this one titled “Apple Working to Bring More Financial Services In-House.” “The project has been dubbed “Breakout” internally, underscoring the idea of breaking away from the existing financial system,” the article says. It describes project breakout as:  

“A multiyear plan would bring a wide range of financial tasks in-house, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the plans aren’t public. That includes payment processing, risk assessment for lending, fraud analysis, credit checks and additional customer-service functions such as the handling of disputes.”

Is this a direct reference to Strike integration and Bitcoin? No, it doesn’t. But it does show Apple’s direction as a company. Apple Pay has been a huge success and Apple is now looking to financial services.

BTCUSD price chart for 03/31/2022 - TradingView

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Twitters about other Apple-related strikes

Twitterati are cautious regarding the possible partnership between Apple and Strike. The evidence is circumstantial at best and there’s no point celebrating just yet. But there are still interesting ideas and evidence. These are just a few of the greatest.

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  • Dennis Porter claims that Senator Cynthia Lummis made a major Strike announcement next month. 
  • Bitcoin Magazine contributor Level39 believes that Strike will just announce they’re integrating “Apple’s upcoming Tap to Pay feature and make Bitcoin more usable and accessible for humanity.”
  • Bitcoin Archive found some bitcoin icons for the Apple OS, but, as it turns out, they’re Minimum three years of age. The icons are still there.
  • Investor James Lavish asks, “Apple then announces its integration BitcoinIs ApplePay still going to say zero to you?” 

And that’s where we are with Twitter-based information and theories regarding Apple and Strike.

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