What if A G20 central bank adds bitcoin to FX reserves?
A mid-sized sovereign formally allocates part of its reserves to BTC as a hedge against dollar weaponization, legitimizing the asset and triggering a structural repricing.
The butterfly cascade
How this trigger trickles across markets, left → right — the root shock, its first‑order moves, then the ripple effects. Drag any node; tap a market for its real price history.
Resolution timeline — how this probability is moving
Our model's odds (electric blue) over time vs the market's (Polymarket, amber), from the past toward the 3–10 years horizon. Each dot is a real macro event that nudged the probability — green pushed it up, red pushed it down. Tap a dot for the source. Loading the probability audit trail…
What it would mean
If this plays out, it is a mixed shock. A mid-sized sovereign formally allocates part of its reserves to BTC as a hedge against dollar weaponization, legitimizing the asset and triggering a structural repricing. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Bitcoin ▲ · Crypto confidence ▲ · Dollar/reserve confidence ▼ · Risk appetite ▲ — which propagate through our causal graph to the markets below.