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"The significance for Bitcoin is that Saylor basically just surrendered. Strategy has gone from the biggest buyer to the biggest seller" Peter Schiff on why Strategy turning seller flips the entire Bitcoin market "He can hide and say we're still a net buyer. He's not. He's gonna be a net seller now. He needs to sell Bitcoin to pay the dividends on the preferreds, to raise the reserves, to cover the interest and principal on the debt, and to buy back stock. He sold preferreds at 100, why not buy them back at 80?" "I don't see how the market is gonna absorb this shift where the biggest buyer becomes the biggest seller. And it's not just Strategy. A lot of people bought knowing Strategy was gonna buy. That was their comfort, their safety buyer. There's a bid in the market, they're gonna keep buying, so I'm gonna buy on his coattails" "Now the markets are anticipating Strategy as a seller. It's gonna be the reverse. Strategy is gonna sell, let me get out first"
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"The significance for Bitcoin is that Saylor basically just surrendered. Strategy has gone from the biggest buyer to the biggest seller" Peter Schiff on why Strategy turning seller flips the entire Bitcoin market "He can hide and say we're still a net buyer. He's not. He's gonna be a net seller now. He needs to sell Bitcoin to pay the dividends on the preferreds, to raise the reserves, to cover the interest and principal on the debt, and to buy back stock. He sold preferreds at 100, why not buy them back at 80?" "I don't see how the market is gonna absorb this shift where the biggest buyer becomes the biggest seller. And it's not just Strategy. A lot of people bought knowing Strategy was gonna buy. That was their comfort, their safety buyer. There's a bid in the market, they're gonna keep buying, so I'm gonna buy on his coattails" "Now the markets are anticipating Strategy as a seller. It's gonna be the reverse. Strategy is gonna sell, let me get out first"

The Wolf Of All Streets

282,316 views • 27 days ago

Should Strategy proactively sell Bitcoin now to protect shareholders later? Kaleo makes the case for selling, and gets pushback Kaleo: "Issuing MSTR is good here. If they were able to just unload a few billion dollars worth of Bitcoin and say the price didn't move way too much, we are being proactive. If they were able to sell that $1.25 billion of Bitcoin, that's bullish" "You're advocating for destroying shareholder value now to protect shareholder value in the future. Why would we be worried about Strategy being a forced seller if we're not worried about voluntarily selling now? That point I just don't get" Kaleo: "Where else is that 10 to 12 billion dollars coming from? They right now have talked about they are willing to sell the Bitcoin. If they sell some at a higher price, it eases a lot more of the concerns than if we get to 30k and we're in the same situation and they haven't sold any" "I can't get anyone to give me an answer on how much Bitcoin he can sell and why. You have no idea what would happen if he did that. What if he does it and Bitcoin goes to 30 and people are like we're done, he's out? You've destroyed more shareholder value than if Bitcoin just goes to 30, stays there 18 months, and he's forced to sell a couple billion. The most likely scenario is at some point in the next 12 months Bitcoin goes up enough that this isn't a problem"
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Should Strategy proactively sell Bitcoin now to protect shareholders later? Kaleo makes the case for selling, and gets pushback Kaleo: "Issuing MSTR is good here. If they were able to just unload a few billion dollars worth of Bitcoin and say the price didn't move way too much, we are being proactive. If they were able to sell that $1.25 billion of Bitcoin, that's bullish" "You're advocating for destroying shareholder value now to protect shareholder value in the future. Why would we be worried about Strategy being a forced seller if we're not worried about voluntarily selling now? That point I just don't get" Kaleo: "Where else is that 10 to 12 billion dollars coming from? They right now have talked about they are willing to sell the Bitcoin. If they sell some at a higher price, it eases a lot more of the concerns than if we get to 30k and we're in the same situation and they haven't sold any" "I can't get anyone to give me an answer on how much Bitcoin he can sell and why. You have no idea what would happen if he did that. What if he does it and Bitcoin goes to 30 and people are like we're done, he's out? You've destroyed more shareholder value than if Bitcoin just goes to 30, stays there 18 months, and he's forced to sell a couple billion. The most likely scenario is at some point in the next 12 months Bitcoin goes up enough that this isn't a problem"

The Wolf Of All Streets

46,076 views • 25 days ago

Threadguy explains why the market won't let Bitcoin recover while Saylor's still in "If you put a gun to your head and asked what makes a real emphatic bottom for Bitcoin, it's Strategy deleveraging, forced selling of the Bitcoin, and Michael Saylor on trial for financial crimes. That's a bottom right there." "Strategy has $1.7 billion promised annually to the end of time. Out of 5,000 public companies in America, maybe 100 make $1.7 billion in profit a year, and Strategy owes that forever. They're only worth their balance sheet in Bitcoin and they can't sell the Bitcoin. The whole bit is earnings per share, but the only way they earn is by selling more Strategy, and that only works if Bitcoin goes up, which it can't while Saylor's still in. So the market is just saying say uncle."
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Threadguy explains why the market won't let Bitcoin recover while Saylor's still in "If you put a gun to your head and asked what makes a real emphatic bottom for Bitcoin, it's Strategy deleveraging, forced selling of the Bitcoin, and Michael Saylor on trial for financial crimes. That's a bottom right there." "Strategy has $1.7 billion promised annually to the end of time. Out of 5,000 public companies in America, maybe 100 make $1.7 billion in profit a year, and Strategy owes that forever. They're only worth their balance sheet in Bitcoin and they can't sell the Bitcoin. The whole bit is earnings per share, but the only way they earn is by selling more Strategy, and that only works if Bitcoin goes up, which it can't while Saylor's still in. So the market is just saying say uncle."

Kai

52,699 views • 1 month ago

GAMESTOP $GME CEO RYAN COHEN JUST WENT ON CNBC TO ANNOUNCE A $56 BILLION OFFER FOR EBAY $EBAY AND COULD NOT EXPLAIN HOW HE WOULD FUND IT The exchange with CNBC anchors Andrew Ross Sorkin and Melissa Lee: Sorkin: "The market cap of GameStop is, call it $11 billion. You have $9 billion on your balance sheet. You have this letter from TD, that's another $20 billion. We're now at $40 billion, but we're still off by call it $16 billion." Cohen: "Half cash, half stock." Sorkin: "I hear you, I'm just saying that math doesn't get you to the price that you're offering. Where is the rest of the money coming from?" Cohen: "I don't understand your question. We're offering half cash, half stock and we have the ability to issue stock in order to get the deal done." The structure of the offer: • Total deal value: $56 billion • 50% cash, 50% stock • Confirmed financing: ~$40 billion ($11B GameStop market cap + $9B GameStop balance sheet cash + $20B TD "highly confident" letter, which is not locked financing) • Funding gap: ~$16 billion, to be covered by issuing additional GameStop stock Cohen's vision for the combined entity: "There's an opportunity to build a much larger business, to make the business much more efficient, and to accelerate revenue growth. eBay is a very strong business, but it could be in a much stronger position. It could be a much larger business than what it currently is."
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GAMESTOP $GME CEO RYAN COHEN JUST WENT ON CNBC TO ANNOUNCE A $56 BILLION OFFER FOR EBAY $EBAY AND COULD NOT EXPLAIN HOW HE WOULD FUND IT The exchange with CNBC anchors Andrew Ross Sorkin and Melissa Lee: Sorkin: "The market cap of GameStop is, call it $11 billion. You have $9 billion on your balance sheet. You have this letter from TD, that's another $20 billion. We're now at $40 billion, but we're still off by call it $16 billion." Cohen: "Half cash, half stock." Sorkin: "I hear you, I'm just saying that math doesn't get you to the price that you're offering. Where is the rest of the money coming from?" Cohen: "I don't understand your question. We're offering half cash, half stock and we have the ability to issue stock in order to get the deal done." The structure of the offer: • Total deal value: $56 billion • 50% cash, 50% stock • Confirmed financing: ~$40 billion ($11B GameStop market cap + $9B GameStop balance sheet cash + $20B TD "highly confident" letter, which is not locked financing) • Funding gap: ~$16 billion, to be covered by issuing additional GameStop stock Cohen's vision for the combined entity: "There's an opportunity to build a much larger business, to make the business much more efficient, and to accelerate revenue growth. eBay is a very strong business, but it could be in a much stronger position. It could be a much larger business than what it currently is."

WOLF

42,203 views • 2 months ago

"I do not believe I need a cash reserve. But our debt holders and Stretch holders feel it's less risky to have one. If Bitcoin crashed 90%, we'd have two and a half years" Strategy CEO Phong Le on why the company plans on keeping the cash reserve "Mathematically I do not believe I need a cash reserve. But from a risk perspective, to satisfy our four stakeholders, common, preferred, Bitcoin and debt holders, especially debt holders and Stretch holders, they feel it's less risky to have a cash reserve. If Bitcoin were to crash 90%, we would have two and a half years" "We took the 2.25 billion down to north of 700 million. Why did we do it? Because at that point in time, that was the best way to buy back our convertibles of one and a half billion dollars. We've also said we're going to bring it right back up, and we've done it $100 million at a time" "We bought $100 million in Bitcoin last week right after we sold $2.5 million. Nobody talks about the purchase of $100 million. They talk about the sale of $2.5 million. We'll bring the cash reserve back up and refresh it over time"
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"I do not believe I need a cash reserve. But our debt holders and Stretch holders feel it's less risky to have one. If Bitcoin crashed 90%, we'd have two and a half years" Strategy CEO Phong Le on why the company plans on keeping the cash reserve "Mathematically I do not believe I need a cash reserve. But from a risk perspective, to satisfy our four stakeholders, common, preferred, Bitcoin and debt holders, especially debt holders and Stretch holders, they feel it's less risky to have a cash reserve. If Bitcoin were to crash 90%, we would have two and a half years" "We took the 2.25 billion down to north of 700 million. Why did we do it? Because at that point in time, that was the best way to buy back our convertibles of one and a half billion dollars. We've also said we're going to bring it right back up, and we've done it $100 million at a time" "We bought $100 million in Bitcoin last week right after we sold $2.5 million. Nobody talks about the purchase of $100 million. They talk about the sale of $2.5 million. We'll bring the cash reserve back up and refresh it over time"

The Wolf Of All Streets

55,916 views • 1 month ago

Vinny Lingham on exactly how the MSTR empire could crash step by step "The moment MSTR trades at a discount he cannot raise more cash. He is locked out. He cannot sell MSTR. He cannot sell STRC. Then he starts running out of cash. Call it nine months, eight months, seven months" "The market prices this in well in advance. The biggest buyer of Bitcoin is being removed. People selling Bitcoin are going to push the price down" "There is a void that forms in the market. The person who has been providing liquidity for years is no longer providing it. The price of Bitcoin goes into a deeper bear market. And then he has to sell Bitcoin to pay the interest on the preferreds"
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Vinny Lingham on exactly how the MSTR empire could crash step by step "The moment MSTR trades at a discount he cannot raise more cash. He is locked out. He cannot sell MSTR. He cannot sell STRC. Then he starts running out of cash. Call it nine months, eight months, seven months" "The market prices this in well in advance. The biggest buyer of Bitcoin is being removed. People selling Bitcoin are going to push the price down" "There is a void that forms in the market. The person who has been providing liquidity for years is no longer providing it. The price of Bitcoin goes into a deeper bear market. And then he has to sell Bitcoin to pay the interest on the preferreds"

Laura Shin

98,022 views • 1 month ago

🚨 BITCOIN IS BEING MANIPULATED, AND I HAVE PROOF MICHAEL SAYLOR BEGINS SELLING $BTC Man who said "you do not sell your Bitcoin" is now selling Bitcoin Market reacts with immediate panic selling: $BTC < $62K Let that sink in Strategy holds 843,738 BTC - purchased for $63.87 billion at an average price of $75,700 per coin That's the largest corporate Bitcoin position in history And for years, Saylor repeated same thing over and over: Never sell. Never waver. Never flinch Then on an earnings call in May 2026, he said this: "We will probably sell some Bitcoin to fund a dividend - just to inoculate market" That single sentence broke a 5-year religion Here's what changed Strategy now carries $1.5B in annual preferred-stock dividend obligations Those dividends have to be paid in cash Bitcoin doesn't pay dividends So Saylor faces a choice: dilute shareholders with new equity, take on more debt or sell some BTC He chose door number three And there's more Company is sitting on $2.2 billion in unrealized tax benefits tied to high-cost-basis Bitcoin Selective sales could harvest those benefits - legally reducing their tax bill while offloading coins at the same time This isn't panic. This is optimization But here's what the market isn't pricing in Strategy owns approximately 4% of all Bitcoin that will ever exist If they become a consistent seller - even of small amounts - bid structure for BTC changes permanently Every fund, every ETF, every HODLer built their thesis on one assumption: Saylor is a buyer. Always That assumption just died The only time Strategy sold Bitcoin before this was December 2022 - 704 BTC for $11.8 million, purely for a tax loss This time the motivation is structural. Recurring. Tied to obligations that don't go away Watch the Coinbase Prime wallet Watch the 8-K filings The first real sale won't be announced - it'll be discovered I've been tracking institutional Bitcoin flows for years When the signal turns, I post it here first Turn on notifications. You'll want to be early on this one
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🚨 BITCOIN IS BEING MANIPULATED, AND I HAVE PROOF MICHAEL SAYLOR BEGINS SELLING $BTC Man who said "you do not sell your Bitcoin" is now selling Bitcoin Market reacts with immediate panic selling: $BTC < $62K Let that sink in Strategy holds 843,738 BTC - purchased for $63.87 billion at an average price of $75,700 per coin That's the largest corporate Bitcoin position in history And for years, Saylor repeated same thing over and over: Never sell. Never waver. Never flinch Then on an earnings call in May 2026, he said this: "We will probably sell some Bitcoin to fund a dividend - just to inoculate market" That single sentence broke a 5-year religion Here's what changed Strategy now carries $1.5B in annual preferred-stock dividend obligations Those dividends have to be paid in cash Bitcoin doesn't pay dividends So Saylor faces a choice: dilute shareholders with new equity, take on more debt or sell some BTC He chose door number three And there's more Company is sitting on $2.2 billion in unrealized tax benefits tied to high-cost-basis Bitcoin Selective sales could harvest those benefits - legally reducing their tax bill while offloading coins at the same time This isn't panic. This is optimization But here's what the market isn't pricing in Strategy owns approximately 4% of all Bitcoin that will ever exist If they become a consistent seller - even of small amounts - bid structure for BTC changes permanently Every fund, every ETF, every HODLer built their thesis on one assumption: Saylor is a buyer. Always That assumption just died The only time Strategy sold Bitcoin before this was December 2022 - 704 BTC for $11.8 million, purely for a tax loss This time the motivation is structural. Recurring. Tied to obligations that don't go away Watch the Coinbase Prime wallet Watch the 8-K filings The first real sale won't be announced - it'll be discovered I've been tracking institutional Bitcoin flows for years When the signal turns, I post it here first Turn on notifications. You'll want to be early on this one

Simba

65,952 views • 1 month ago

JUST IN: BILLIONAIRE MIKE NOVOGRATZ JUST SAID THE FUD AGAINST MICHAEL SAYLOR IS TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY FALSE STRATEGY IS NOT GOING TO BE A "FORCED SELLER OF #BITCOIN OR $MSTR ANYTIME SOON" SAYLOR AND STRATEGY HAVE "PLENTY OF CASH TO PAY HIS DIVIDENDS" FOR YEARS "THE MARKET DOESN'T UNDERSTAND THAT HE CAN JUST SIT AND DO NOTHING AND BE FINE" DON'T BELIEVE THE FUD. HODL 🚀
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JUST IN: BILLIONAIRE MIKE NOVOGRATZ JUST SAID THE FUD AGAINST MICHAEL SAYLOR IS TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY FALSE STRATEGY IS NOT GOING TO BE A "FORCED SELLER OF #BITCOIN OR $MSTR ANYTIME SOON" SAYLOR AND STRATEGY HAVE "PLENTY OF CASH TO PAY HIS DIVIDENDS" FOR YEARS "THE MARKET DOESN'T UNDERSTAND THAT HE CAN JUST SIT AND DO NOTHING AND BE FINE" DON'T BELIEVE THE FUD. HODL 🚀

The Bitcoin Historian

123,815 views • 27 days ago

Saylor just proved to the SEC and S&P that the Bitcoin actually backs the products "He sold $216,000,000 worth of Bitcoin and covered a quarter of dividends for all the preferreds plus an extra month for some of them" "He can sell less than half a percent of his stack at any given time and cover every single obligation he has for three to four months" "The SEC wants to see that. And the S&P wants to see that the Bitcoin is actually backing these products"
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Saylor just proved to the SEC and S&P that the Bitcoin actually backs the products "He sold $216,000,000 worth of Bitcoin and covered a quarter of dividends for all the preferreds plus an extra month for some of them" "He can sell less than half a percent of his stack at any given time and cover every single obligation he has for three to four months" "The SEC wants to see that. And the S&P wants to see that the Bitcoin is actually backing these products"

The Wolf Of All Streets

145,745 views • 19 days ago

🚨 BREAKING: MICHAEL SAYLOR BEGINS SELLING $BTC Man who said "you do not sell your Bitcoin" is now selling Bitcoin Market reacts with immediate panic selling: $BTC < $72K Let that sink in Strategy holds 843,738 BTC - purchased for $63.87 billion at an average price of $75,700 per coin That's the largest corporate Bitcoin position in history And for years, Saylor repeated same thing over and over: Never sell. Never waver. Never flinch Then on an earnings call in May 2026, he said this: "We will probably sell some Bitcoin to fund a dividend - just to inoculate market" That single sentence broke a 5-year religion Here's what changed Strategy now carries $1.5B in annual preferred-stock dividend obligations Those dividends have to be paid in cash Bitcoin doesn't pay dividends So Saylor faces a choice: dilute shareholders with new equity, take on more debt or sell some BTC He chose door number three And there's more Company is sitting on $2.2 billion in unrealized tax benefits tied to high-cost-basis Bitcoin Selective sales could harvest those benefits - legally reducing their tax bill while offloading coins at the same time This isn't panic. This is optimization But here's what the market isn't pricing in Strategy owns approximately 4% of all Bitcoin that will ever exist If they become a consistent seller - even of small amounts - bid structure for BTC changes permanently Every fund, every ETF, every HODLer built their thesis on one assumption: Saylor is a buyer. Always That assumption just died The only time Strategy sold Bitcoin before this was December 2022 - 704 BTC for $11.8 million, purely for a tax loss This time the motivation is structural. Recurring. Tied to obligations that don't go away Watch the Coinbase Prime wallet Watch the 8-K filings The first real sale won't be announced - it'll be discovered I've been tracking institutional Bitcoin flows for years When the signal turns, I post it here first Turn on notifications. You'll want to be early on this one
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🚨 BREAKING: MICHAEL SAYLOR BEGINS SELLING $BTC Man who said "you do not sell your Bitcoin" is now selling Bitcoin Market reacts with immediate panic selling: $BTC < $72K Let that sink in Strategy holds 843,738 BTC - purchased for $63.87 billion at an average price of $75,700 per coin That's the largest corporate Bitcoin position in history And for years, Saylor repeated same thing over and over: Never sell. Never waver. Never flinch Then on an earnings call in May 2026, he said this: "We will probably sell some Bitcoin to fund a dividend - just to inoculate market" That single sentence broke a 5-year religion Here's what changed Strategy now carries $1.5B in annual preferred-stock dividend obligations Those dividends have to be paid in cash Bitcoin doesn't pay dividends So Saylor faces a choice: dilute shareholders with new equity, take on more debt or sell some BTC He chose door number three And there's more Company is sitting on $2.2 billion in unrealized tax benefits tied to high-cost-basis Bitcoin Selective sales could harvest those benefits - legally reducing their tax bill while offloading coins at the same time This isn't panic. This is optimization But here's what the market isn't pricing in Strategy owns approximately 4% of all Bitcoin that will ever exist If they become a consistent seller - even of small amounts - bid structure for BTC changes permanently Every fund, every ETF, every HODLer built their thesis on one assumption: Saylor is a buyer. Always That assumption just died The only time Strategy sold Bitcoin before this was December 2022 - 704 BTC for $11.8 million, purely for a tax loss This time the motivation is structural. Recurring. Tied to obligations that don't go away Watch the Coinbase Prime wallet Watch the 8-K filings The first real sale won't be announced - it'll be discovered I've been tracking institutional Bitcoin flows for years When the signal turns, I post it here first Turn on notifications. You'll want to be early on this one

Aralez 🐕

320,767 views • 1 month ago

"The most realistic scenario of us being a forced seller of Bitcoin is in 2028 when $3.5 billion of prefers come due. And even then, we have other options" Strategy CEO Phong Le on what it would actually take for the company to be a forced seller of Bitcoin "We have about $3.5 billion of converts that come due in 2028 with a high strike price, over $400. If at that point Bitcoin has lost a significant amount of its value and our share price is depressed, we would sell the Bitcoin to satisfy the converts" "That's an edge case, because we could also just refinance those converts. We could equitize it. We're talking 2028, two years out" "I don't see any scenario until then that we become a forced seller of Bitcoin. And even then, we have other opportunities and options"
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"The most realistic scenario of us being a forced seller of Bitcoin is in 2028 when $3.5 billion of prefers come due. And even then, we have other options" Strategy CEO Phong Le on what it would actually take for the company to be a forced seller of Bitcoin "We have about $3.5 billion of converts that come due in 2028 with a high strike price, over $400. If at that point Bitcoin has lost a significant amount of its value and our share price is depressed, we would sell the Bitcoin to satisfy the converts" "That's an edge case, because we could also just refinance those converts. We could equitize it. We're talking 2028, two years out" "I don't see any scenario until then that we become a forced seller of Bitcoin. And even then, we have other opportunities and options"

The Wolf Of All Streets

50,719 views • 1 month ago

Strategy CEO Phong Le lays down the three reasons behind the Bitcoin sale "We did it to inoculate the market. To test our processes. And to give ourselves the opportunity for future tax loss harvesting. It is really that simple" "We did not sell it because we needed to meet our cash dividend obligations. If we did we would have sold a lot more than $2.5 million" "We have $52 billion worth of Bitcoin on our balance sheet. At some point we have to put it to work. Selling less than 1% of 1% was a reasonable place to start"
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Strategy CEO Phong Le lays down the three reasons behind the Bitcoin sale "We did it to inoculate the market. To test our processes. And to give ourselves the opportunity for future tax loss harvesting. It is really that simple" "We did not sell it because we needed to meet our cash dividend obligations. If we did we would have sold a lot more than $2.5 million" "We have $52 billion worth of Bitcoin on our balance sheet. At some point we have to put it to work. Selling less than 1% of 1% was a reasonable place to start"

The Wolf Of All Streets

35,066 views • 1 month ago

Warren Buffett just warned that the US dollar could collapse and admitted he doesn't understand most of the stock market anymore. 95 years old, sitting on $380 billion in cash, and the first time watching from the sidelines instead of actively investing. And what he revealed at this weekend's Berkshire shareholder meeting is genuinely concerning: On the market, Buffett didn't hold back. He compared it to "a church with a casino attached" and said the casino has never been more packed. On one-day options: "That is not investing. It's not speculating. It's gambling. Totally." He pointed to the Avis short squeeze THIS WEEK. A rental car company that's been around for 50 years getting meme-squeezed in 2026. The same behavior that blew up retail traders with GameStop is back, except now it's hitting boring legacy companies with zero business being volatile. "We have lots more regulation now, but people spend their time figuring out how to get around the rules rather than follow the rules." That one sentence explains more about the current market than every CNBC segment combined. When asked why he's hoarding $380 billion instead of investing it, Buffett said something no one expected: "I understand fewer of the businesses as a percentage of the whole than I did 10 years ago. I have not learned new industries for some years. I'm not going to have an edge on a whole bunch of younger people that have actually grown up with it." Think about what he's actually saying... This is a man who made $140 billion by understanding businesses better than anyone alive. And he's telling you the current market is so detached from reality that even HE can't make sense of what's being valued and why. He quoted IBM's Tom Watson Sr.: "I'm smart in spots and I stay around those spots." In 60 years of managing money, he said MAYBE five were "really juicy." Five out of sixty. That means 92% of his career was spent WAITING while everyone else gambled. And he still ended up richer than all of them. Then the conversation turned to inflation and that's where it gets really interesting: Buffett said America is "not immune" from runaway inflation. He brought up countries that went bankrupt "six or seven times" in his lifetime. Compared today to right before Volcker had to rescue the dollar, when Americans were borrowing at 12% to buy farmland earning 6% because they believed the dollar would disappear. "Cash is trash" was the mentality. Nebraska farmers collapsed because of it. Entire communities wiped out not by a recession but by a BELIEF that the currency was dying. And Buffett sees that same energy building again. Then someone asked the question everyone wanted answered: Do you see a crash coming? "If you saw it coming, it wouldn't happen. The things people are talking about and thinking about? It's not going to happen. But there are things that can come out of the blue." He compared it to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 that triggered World War I. Nobody was discussing or anticipating it. But it changed the world overnight. "That's particularly true now because of the things that can come out of the sky." A 95yo man who has survived every crash, every war, every crisis of the last six decades just told you the market is a casino, the dollar isn't safe, and the real collapse will be something nobody sees coming. $380 billion in cash is his answer because he believes things are about to get much worse.
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Warren Buffett just warned that the US dollar could collapse and admitted he doesn't understand most of the stock market anymore. 95 years old, sitting on $380 billion in cash, and the first time watching from the sidelines instead of actively investing. And what he revealed at this weekend's Berkshire shareholder meeting is genuinely concerning: On the market, Buffett didn't hold back. He compared it to "a church with a casino attached" and said the casino has never been more packed. On one-day options: "That is not investing. It's not speculating. It's gambling. Totally." He pointed to the Avis short squeeze THIS WEEK. A rental car company that's been around for 50 years getting meme-squeezed in 2026. The same behavior that blew up retail traders with GameStop is back, except now it's hitting boring legacy companies with zero business being volatile. "We have lots more regulation now, but people spend their time figuring out how to get around the rules rather than follow the rules." That one sentence explains more about the current market than every CNBC segment combined. When asked why he's hoarding $380 billion instead of investing it, Buffett said something no one expected: "I understand fewer of the businesses as a percentage of the whole than I did 10 years ago. I have not learned new industries for some years. I'm not going to have an edge on a whole bunch of younger people that have actually grown up with it." Think about what he's actually saying... This is a man who made $140 billion by understanding businesses better than anyone alive. And he's telling you the current market is so detached from reality that even HE can't make sense of what's being valued and why. He quoted IBM's Tom Watson Sr.: "I'm smart in spots and I stay around those spots." In 60 years of managing money, he said MAYBE five were "really juicy." Five out of sixty. That means 92% of his career was spent WAITING while everyone else gambled. And he still ended up richer than all of them. Then the conversation turned to inflation and that's where it gets really interesting: Buffett said America is "not immune" from runaway inflation. He brought up countries that went bankrupt "six or seven times" in his lifetime. Compared today to right before Volcker had to rescue the dollar, when Americans were borrowing at 12% to buy farmland earning 6% because they believed the dollar would disappear. "Cash is trash" was the mentality. Nebraska farmers collapsed because of it. Entire communities wiped out not by a recession but by a BELIEF that the currency was dying. And Buffett sees that same energy building again. Then someone asked the question everyone wanted answered: Do you see a crash coming? "If you saw it coming, it wouldn't happen. The things people are talking about and thinking about? It's not going to happen. But there are things that can come out of the blue." He compared it to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 that triggered World War I. Nobody was discussing or anticipating it. But it changed the world overnight. "That's particularly true now because of the things that can come out of the sky." A 95yo man who has survived every crash, every war, every crisis of the last six decades just told you the market is a casino, the dollar isn't safe, and the real collapse will be something nobody sees coming. $380 billion in cash is his answer because he believes things are about to get much worse.

Ricardo

1,645,316 views • 2 months ago

"I don't see any scenario where you'd really want to own MSTR stock right now, given how dire the options are" Jeff Dorman ranks the Strategy capital structure from safest to riskiest "In a worst case where MicroStrategy defaults, you'd want to own the debt first. If you have $56 billion of Bitcoin backing $7 billion of debt, you're fully covered. Those would rise to par immediately if you thought default was imminent. That's the safest place" "The next safest is the preferred. There's only $15 billion of preferreds on top of $7 billion of debt, backed by $57 billion of Bitcoin. In a default you'll get your money back. But people buy them for the dividend, and if you cut it they fall 30 or 40 percent" "If you think default is four years out instead of one year and you can get 12 percent per year while you wait, that might be worth it. But the MSTR stock is the hardest one. I don't see any scenario where you'd want to own it right now"
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"I don't see any scenario where you'd really want to own MSTR stock right now, given how dire the options are" Jeff Dorman ranks the Strategy capital structure from safest to riskiest "In a worst case where MicroStrategy defaults, you'd want to own the debt first. If you have $56 billion of Bitcoin backing $7 billion of debt, you're fully covered. Those would rise to par immediately if you thought default was imminent. That's the safest place" "The next safest is the preferred. There's only $15 billion of preferreds on top of $7 billion of debt, backed by $57 billion of Bitcoin. In a default you'll get your money back. But people buy them for the dividend, and if you cut it they fall 30 or 40 percent" "If you think default is four years out instead of one year and you can get 12 percent per year while you wait, that might be worth it. But the MSTR stock is the hardest one. I don't see any scenario where you'd want to own it right now"

Laura Shin

56,607 views • 1 month ago

Easy says he's 100% out of Bitcoin because Strategy will keep selling it to pay their dividend "This is the most bearish thing. So last night I sold my Bitcoin. I was holding a good amount of coins, I'm completely out of Bitcoin" "100% out of Bitcoin, I hold no Bitcoin right now, zero dollars of Bitcoin. And yeah, I can miss the move. This is so incredibly, beyond bearish, I cannot emphasize how bearish this is" "They have 32 years of dividend coverage, which means they're comfortable continuing to just sell Bitcoin. That's 55 billion at current prices" "Bitcoin is a volatile asset that they're paying dividends with to fund $STRC, and STRC is trading at $90 right now when it's supposed to be pegged to $100. This whole shenanigan is very bad for Bitcoin, because now you have overhang"
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Easy says he's 100% out of Bitcoin because Strategy will keep selling it to pay their dividend "This is the most bearish thing. So last night I sold my Bitcoin. I was holding a good amount of coins, I'm completely out of Bitcoin" "100% out of Bitcoin, I hold no Bitcoin right now, zero dollars of Bitcoin. And yeah, I can miss the move. This is so incredibly, beyond bearish, I cannot emphasize how bearish this is" "They have 32 years of dividend coverage, which means they're comfortable continuing to just sell Bitcoin. That's 55 billion at current prices" "Bitcoin is a volatile asset that they're paying dividends with to fund $STRC, and STRC is trading at $90 right now when it's supposed to be pegged to $100. This whole shenanigan is very bad for Bitcoin, because now you have overhang"

Casper

60,541 views • 1 month ago

Keir Starmer, "On Brexit, the reason I reminded everyone of what Nigel Farage said was because that was the promise he put to the country" "That we'd be stronger, we'd be richer, we'd have lots of money for the NHS, immigration will come down" "It all proved to be false" "Farage is not going back to the country now and saying it was a good thing, you've all benefited" "Farage will talk about almost anything else apart from the consequences of the one thing he delivered for the country, Brexit" "Farage doesn't want to talk about it, and there's a reason for that, it didn't help working people" "It turns out what he said wasn't true" "That's why Farage doesn't want to talk about Brexit" "But we have to talk about it now because we have to address the situation we are in" "We have to give this country a stronger economy, a stronger defence and security arrangement given the world we live in" "That's why I said what I said about being closer to Europe" "And this government being defined by bringing Europe back together and the UK at the heart of Europe"
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Keir Starmer, "On Brexit, the reason I reminded everyone of what Nigel Farage said was because that was the promise he put to the country" "That we'd be stronger, we'd be richer, we'd have lots of money for the NHS, immigration will come down" "It all proved to be false" "Farage is not going back to the country now and saying it was a good thing, you've all benefited" "Farage will talk about almost anything else apart from the consequences of the one thing he delivered for the country, Brexit" "Farage doesn't want to talk about it, and there's a reason for that, it didn't help working people" "It turns out what he said wasn't true" "That's why Farage doesn't want to talk about Brexit" "But we have to talk about it now because we have to address the situation we are in" "We have to give this country a stronger economy, a stronger defence and security arrangement given the world we live in" "That's why I said what I said about being closer to Europe" "And this government being defined by bringing Europe back together and the UK at the heart of Europe"

Farrukh

151,685 views • 2 months ago

Pio reveals the real reason why Saylor sold 32 Bitcoin "People ask why he sold the 32 Bitcoin, and it's two reasons. They want S&P inclusion, and they want a better rating from the agencies that rate these preferred equities. Right now their rating is junk, the agencies are literally writing the Bitcoin to zero, not recognizing it as an asset." "This sounds insane but go try it. If you have 5 million dollars of real Bitcoin on chain and you walk into a bank for a mortgage loan and offer it as collateral, they go, so that's zero. I'm not kidding. But if you hold IBIT, the Bitcoin ETF, that's totally fine, because it's just an equity." "The S&P gatekeepers specifically said that because Saylor had demonstrated he'd never sell any Bitcoin, they couldn't view it as a viable part of his balance sheet. So he needs to show he can pay the dividend with Bitcoin if he has to. Once stretch gets a AAA rating, do you know how much capital a thing paying 11% is going to attract?"
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Pio reveals the real reason why Saylor sold 32 Bitcoin "People ask why he sold the 32 Bitcoin, and it's two reasons. They want S&P inclusion, and they want a better rating from the agencies that rate these preferred equities. Right now their rating is junk, the agencies are literally writing the Bitcoin to zero, not recognizing it as an asset." "This sounds insane but go try it. If you have 5 million dollars of real Bitcoin on chain and you walk into a bank for a mortgage loan and offer it as collateral, they go, so that's zero. I'm not kidding. But if you hold IBIT, the Bitcoin ETF, that's totally fine, because it's just an equity." "The S&P gatekeepers specifically said that because Saylor had demonstrated he'd never sell any Bitcoin, they couldn't view it as a viable part of his balance sheet. So he needs to show he can pay the dividend with Bitcoin if he has to. Once stretch gets a AAA rating, do you know how much capital a thing paying 11% is going to attract?"

Kai

66,616 views • 1 month ago

"Bitcoin's probably going towards 10,000, and we need to get MicroStrategy Saylor stopped out. There's only one thing that matters for him right now, Bitcoin has to go up" Mike McGlone on why crypto is in a severe bear market that's just getting started "Cryptos are in a severe, serious bear market and it should continue. Part of it is because we've got a lot of smart people who are not seeing the forest through the trees. The number one thing is rapidly advancing technology, which is bearish because there's an unlimited supply of cryptos" "Now we have to purge those, and we're just getting started. Bitcoin's just one of them. The fact that it's done what it's done this year is a good indication it's probably going towards 10,000" "There's only one thing that matters for Saylor right now, Bitcoin has to go up. And it's going down despite the stock market going up"
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"Bitcoin's probably going towards 10,000, and we need to get MicroStrategy Saylor stopped out. There's only one thing that matters for him right now, Bitcoin has to go up" Mike McGlone on why crypto is in a severe bear market that's just getting started "Cryptos are in a severe, serious bear market and it should continue. Part of it is because we've got a lot of smart people who are not seeing the forest through the trees. The number one thing is rapidly advancing technology, which is bearish because there's an unlimited supply of cryptos" "Now we have to purge those, and we're just getting started. Bitcoin's just one of them. The fact that it's done what it's done this year is a good indication it's probably going towards 10,000" "There's only one thing that matters for Saylor right now, Bitcoin has to go up. And it's going down despite the stock market going up"

The Wolf Of All Streets

167,766 views • 20 days ago

CEO of Citadel Ken Griffin says that Data Center spend this year alone is set to be half a trillion dollars, $500 billion He says that AI is useful in some areas but it’s not worth the investment, he says a lot of what it produces “It’s all garbage” “Data center spent in the United States this year, over half a trillion dollars, like over $500 billion. You're not gonna generate this kind of spend unless you're gonna make a promise. You're gonna profoundly change the world. So is it hype? Of course — In certain areas, we know it's gonna be profound, whether it's call centers, whether it's helping to improve the productivity of software engineers, but in a number of white collar jobs, you know, there was a, there was a recent Harvard paper on this, they called it AI work Slop, that it looks good, but if you sort of peel back the onion, the substance isn't there. I was with one of my colleagues who runs our commodities business and they, he handed a report on that we were generated with an AI engine. Doesn't matter what the topic was, the first few sentences, like, wow, that's, that's really insightful. And then you go down below that and it's all garbage.”
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CEO of Citadel Ken Griffin says that Data Center spend this year alone is set to be half a trillion dollars, $500 billion He says that AI is useful in some areas but it’s not worth the investment, he says a lot of what it produces “It’s all garbage” “Data center spent in the United States this year, over half a trillion dollars, like over $500 billion. You're not gonna generate this kind of spend unless you're gonna make a promise. You're gonna profoundly change the world. So is it hype? Of course — In certain areas, we know it's gonna be profound, whether it's call centers, whether it's helping to improve the productivity of software engineers, but in a number of white collar jobs, you know, there was a, there was a recent Harvard paper on this, they called it AI work Slop, that it looks good, but if you sort of peel back the onion, the substance isn't there. I was with one of my colleagues who runs our commodities business and they, he handed a report on that we were generated with an AI engine. Doesn't matter what the topic was, the first few sentences, like, wow, that's, that's really insightful. And then you go down below that and it's all garbage.”

Wall Street Apes

397,458 views • 3 months ago

. Michael Saylor explains why Strategy's real business isn't Bitcoin - it's selling credit to people who want the upside without the bumpy ride "We're like a reserve bank. We have a reserve asset - Bitcoin. We will sell credit. We are stripping the performance and the risk off of the bitcoin." "Bitcoin's got 40 vol and it's got high performance. But most of the world wants zero vol. What they want is a bank account that pays them 10 or 11%." "For every dollar of equity capital of Bitcoin that we have - digital capital - you can create 10 to $0.20 of credit. We've sold about $10 billion of credit. We'll create $20 billion of digital credit over the next year, then grow that 30 to 50% a year."
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. Michael Saylor explains why Strategy's real business isn't Bitcoin - it's selling credit to people who want the upside without the bumpy ride "We're like a reserve bank. We have a reserve asset - Bitcoin. We will sell credit. We are stripping the performance and the risk off of the bitcoin." "Bitcoin's got 40 vol and it's got high performance. But most of the world wants zero vol. What they want is a bank account that pays them 10 or 11%." "For every dollar of equity capital of Bitcoin that we have - digital capital - you can create 10 to $0.20 of credit. We've sold about $10 billion of credit. We'll create $20 billion of digital credit over the next year, then grow that 30 to 50% a year."

MR SHIFT 🦁

34,055 views • 1 month ago