Why would they need new investors to drive up the stock price when they can just borrow money directly from the fed, then buy back their stock, reducing supply and artificially inflating the price while simultaneously pushing that debt onto people in the form of inflation.

I mean, if that's not the biggest scam in the history of scams, I don't know what is.

Comparing the stock market to BTC is comparing apples and oranges, though, given that BTC is more like a commodity than anything else.

Its value comes from the fact that it stores AND transfers value as a function vs. paying big banksters to store and transfer that wealth for profit.