Michael Snyder’s article on the trillion-dollar crypto wipeout paints a grim picture, and it should. But the story’s bigger than just speculative losses. This isn’t about “investors getting crushed”—it’s about the controlled collapse of alternative systems. The cryptocurrency crash, the AI stock comedown, and the freight recession all point to one thing: a top-down reset masquerading as a market correction. While the media wrings its hands over Bitcoin’s price chart, the real danger is quietly installing itself behind the curtain—ISO 20022. That’s the infrastructure of financial surveillance, ready to be flipped when the time is right. For now, Trump’s executive ban holds off the CBDC invasion—but make no mistake, the architects of central control are just biding their time.