Kiyosaki’s Bitcoin Buy Call: Is He Selling Hype Or Reading Between Treasury Lines Officials Won’t Admit?

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By: Christian Pierce
Retail investors are caught in a crossfire right now that has nothing to do with technical macroeconomics, and everything to do with fear and hype. On one side, a beloved personal finance author is screaming that the government is printing fake money, urging everyone to dump cash for scarce assets like Bitcoin. On the other, Treasury officials are insisting their latest policy move is just a routine liquidity adjustment, no cause for inflation panic. Bitcoin just rallied 20% in a single week, and spot ETFs are pulling in billions in new capital, leaving regular savers unsure who to trust. They’ve already watched their cash savings lose 20% of purchasing power since 2020, so any signal of looser fiscal policy sends them scrambling for hedges, but following celebrity investor calls has burned them more than once in the digital asset space.
Robert Kiyosaki posted his latest buy call on X on Aug 22, telling followers to purchase Bitcoin, gold, silver and selected real estate to avoid losing out to coming inflation. He called the Treasury’s expanded bond buyback program a new round of quantitative easing, and labeled the resulting currency “fake dollars”. The official Treasury announcement from Aug 19 says the program will raise maximum long-dated bond buyback size from $2 billion to at least $4 billion per auction starting Sept 9, targeting 10 to 30 year securities. Officials explicitly say the move is a debt management tool to improve market liquidity, not quantitative easing. Only the Federal Reserve can conduct QE, which expands the monetary base by purchasing assets, while Treasury buybacks just replace existing debt without new money creation. Bitcoin traded near $76,000 on Aug 23 after hitting a high of almost $79,500 earlier that week, with the 20% rally driven by falling long-term bond yields, a weaker dollar and mass short liquidations. U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $1.92 billion in net inflows across five consecutive sessions, showing real retail demand beyond the short squeeze. Kiyosaki’s track record on Bitcoin calls is spotty at best. He predicted Bitcoin would hit $350,000 by August 2024, a target it never came close to reaching. He has since floated $500,000 and $1 million targets without releasing any supporting valuation model. He sold $2.25 million worth of Bitcoin at around $90,000 per coin in November 2025, using the proceeds to fund surgery centers and a billboard business, even as he continued to make public bullish statements about the asset. He has also previously warned investors not to buy Bitcoin out of hype alone, a caveat he omitted from his latest viral post.
The commercial loop driving this entire narrative is impossible to miss. Kiyosaki’s massive follower base amplifies fear around dollar devaluation, pushing more retail investors to buy Bitcoin through spot ETFs. Those inflows push Bitcoin prices higher, which makes his public bullish calls look correct to casual observers, even as he sells his own holdings into price peaks to fund non-crypto investments. ETF issuers collect steady management fees from all the new capital flowing in, regardless of whether prices go up or down long term. The end game here is not the $1 million Bitcoin target Kiyosaki likes to throw around. It is a market structure where regular retail investors absorb all the downside risk when prices correct, while celebrity influencers and large financial firms lock in guaranteed profits regardless of market direction. Retail investors would be far better served tracking weekly spot ETF inflow numbers, than relying on ungrounded price targets from influencers who do not disclose their own selling activity to followers.

Author bio: Christian Pierce, chief financial columnist and markets commentator with 15 years covering macro policy and digital asset valuation.