I'm going to charitably interpret "it's the most honest market we have in the entire country" as tongue-in-cheek, and not a literal claim about the honesty of the Bitcoin market. Because sheeeesh.
“I do wonder whether at this point, Bitcoin should also be thought [of] in part as a Chinese financial weapon against the U.S.,” Thiel said during an appearance at a virtual event held for members of the Richard Nixon Foundation. “It threatens fiat money, but it especially threatens the U.S. dollar.” He added: “[If] China’s long Bitcoin, perhaps from a geopolitical perspective, the U.S. should be asking some tougher questions about exactly how that works.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-07/peter-thi...
By most estimations China is sitting on / "HODLing" a fortune in BTC.
Weaponized global finance. The petrodollar war rages on in crypto land