Sword of Damocles is an perfect analogy, the FED is also embedded in politics while not being in the process directly they are dependent on the good will (not actual factual results).
Right, they're hanging the sword over the government, but now Bitcoin is a sword is hanging over THEM. We got ourselves a good old fashioned Mexican standoff.
And BLOCKSTREAM is the sword hanging over BITCOIN (BTC), it is Swords all the way down. It is interesting to hear Milton Friedman accept the idea behind the fed but critique the result
