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Everyone's asking why Bitcoin is lagging while the S&P prints all-time highs. Michael Saylor gave me the cleanest answer in Prague: "We're living right now in the summer of the AI bubble... $500 billion of capital is being lurped into the AI complex right now." His framing: a "massive... AI black hole spinning through the system," pulling the marginal dollar into every hot AI deal instead of crypto. Nothing broke — the capital just found somewhere louder to go. What I respect is that he didn't leave it vague. He put a clock on it: "I think a lot of that hot money will come back into Bitcoin because Bitcoin is now undervalued" — capital rotating back around Q3, and by Q4 "things will be normalizing to our benefit." That's his call, not mine — but it's dated and testable, which is exactly why it's worth writing down. In six months we either see the rotation or we don't. His yardstick for "undervalued," for what it's worth, is the discount to the 200-week moving average — what he calls the "book value" of Bitcoin. A cleaner lens than the daily candle, whatever you make of the timing. Do you buy the AI-drain thesis — or is the lag telling us something more structural?show more

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David Perell Clips

12,220 views • 2 months ago

"Bitcoin is a narrative. It will always be a narrative. And that's its moat." Jordi Visser (Jordi Visser) on why Bitcoin survives every bear market and what's actually holding it back right now: "It has a moat because belief is harder than fundamentals. Fundamentals come and go. Belief systems don't." "It's survived many, many bear markets. It's in the stage of long-term acceptance now." "The problem is simple: it needs money. And right now the money is going somewhere else." Translation: Bitcoin's strength isn't a cash flow or a fundamental you can model, it's belief, and belief is harder to kill than any balance sheet. That's why it keeps surviving. But belief doesn't move price on its own. It needs capital flowing in, and in a market where AI is absorbing every available dollar, that's the one thing Bitcoin isn't getting yet. Belief keeps it alive. Money makes it move. Which one are you betting shows up first? Jordi Visser: BTC is a narrative, it will always be a narrative. Its in the stage of a long term acceptance, the problem is, it needs money.

"Bitcoin is a narrative. It will always be a narrative. And that's its moat." Jordi Visser (Jordi Visser) on why Bitcoin survives every bear market and what's actually holding it back right now: "It has a moat because belief is harder than fundamentals. Fundamentals come and go. Belief systems don't." "It's survived many, many bear markets. It's in the stage of long-term acceptance now." "The problem is simple: it needs money. And right now the money is going somewhere else." Translation: Bitcoin's strength isn't a cash flow or a fundamental you can model, it's belief, and belief is harder to kill than any balance sheet. That's why it keeps surviving. But belief doesn't move price on its own. It needs capital flowing in, and in a market where AI is absorbing every available dollar, that's the one thing Bitcoin isn't getting yet. Belief keeps it alive. Money makes it move. Which one are you betting shows up first? Jordi Visser: BTC is a narrative, it will always be a narrative. Its in the stage of a long term acceptance, the problem is, it needs money.

Michaël van de Poppe

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