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Michael Saylor: in the long run, whether we join the S&P 500 doesn't really matter On November 23, MicroStrategy co-founder Michael Saylor said in a CoinDesk podcast interview that whether the S&P 500 includes them doesn't matter in the long run. In discussing how Bitcoin and digital assets are...

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I joined Laura K. Inamedinova at the Xapo Bank Conference in London on July 1 for a fireside chat on Bitcoin as Digital Capital, the emergence of Digital Credit, and the path to Bitcoin-backed Digital Money. Fix the money, fix the world. $BTC 00:42 — Bitcoin below $60K and the mission: “Fix the money, fix the world” 01:27 — Bitcoin as the dominant Digital Capital network and the next great digital transformation 02:55 — Bitcoin Dominance approaching 69–70% and why “the flippening” debate is over 04:21 — The next layers: Digital Credit and Digital Money built on Bitcoin 06:56 — Strategy as an institutional gateway: attracting $64–65B into Bitcoin across equity, derivatives, credit, and money markets 12:28 — $STRC: bitcoin-backed preferred equity designed to create asset-backed Digital Credit 15:33 — The $STRC breakthrough: potential tax-deferred credit dividends backed by unrealized Bitcoin gains 18:18 — Digital Credit on Digital Capital: the killer app of a $50B bitcoin-backed balance sheet 19:48 — Digital Money: zero-volatility, fiat-pegged, yield-bearing bitcoin-backed assets 22:32 — Stress testing $STRC through deeper Bitcoin drawdowns 25:51 — $STRC vs. Bitcoin in the bear market: stripping ~90% of Bitcoin’s downside volatility 27:04 — Transparent Digital Credit: modeling risk from Bitcoin price and volatility every 15 seconds 30:34 — The builder roadmap: “If you want to make money, make the money” 32:27 — $STRC, $SATA, and the credit layer behind bitcoin-backed Digital Money 36:20 — Wrapping Digital Money as accounts, funds, public products, or tokens 41:27 — Creating Digital Credit on Digital Capital, then Digital Money on Digital Credit 43:00 — 2026 headwinds: geopolitics, the Fed, AI capital rotation, and digital asset regulation 44:54 — Potential catalysts: $STRC returning to par, Digital Credit reaccelerating, and capital flowing back to Digital Capital 46:01 — Why current market conditions may be a strong entry point for Digital Money builders
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I joined Laura K. Inamedinova at the Xapo Bank Conference in London on July 1 for a fireside chat on Bitcoin as Digital Capital, the emergence of Digital Credit, and the path to Bitcoin-backed Digital Money. Fix the money, fix the world. $BTC 00:42 — Bitcoin below $60K and the mission: “Fix the money, fix the world” 01:27 — Bitcoin as the dominant Digital Capital network and the next great digital transformation 02:55 — Bitcoin Dominance approaching 69–70% and why “the flippening” debate is over 04:21 — The next layers: Digital Credit and Digital Money built on Bitcoin 06:56 — Strategy as an institutional gateway: attracting $64–65B into Bitcoin across equity, derivatives, credit, and money markets 12:28 — $STRC: bitcoin-backed preferred equity designed to create asset-backed Digital Credit 15:33 — The $STRC breakthrough: potential tax-deferred credit dividends backed by unrealized Bitcoin gains 18:18 — Digital Credit on Digital Capital: the killer app of a $50B bitcoin-backed balance sheet 19:48 — Digital Money: zero-volatility, fiat-pegged, yield-bearing bitcoin-backed assets 22:32 — Stress testing $STRC through deeper Bitcoin drawdowns 25:51 — $STRC vs. Bitcoin in the bear market: stripping ~90% of Bitcoin’s downside volatility 27:04 — Transparent Digital Credit: modeling risk from Bitcoin price and volatility every 15 seconds 30:34 — The builder roadmap: “If you want to make money, make the money” 32:27 — $STRC, $SATA, and the credit layer behind bitcoin-backed Digital Money 36:20 — Wrapping Digital Money as accounts, funds, public products, or tokens 41:27 — Creating Digital Credit on Digital Capital, then Digital Money on Digital Credit 43:00 — 2026 headwinds: geopolitics, the Fed, AI capital rotation, and digital asset regulation 44:54 — Potential catalysts: $STRC returning to par, Digital Credit reaccelerating, and capital flowing back to Digital Capital 46:01 — Why current market conditions may be a strong entry point for Digital Money builders

Michael Saylor

463,586 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

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 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten

Michael Michael Saylor believes Bitcoin can 500x. The more interesting question is how. At BTC Prague, we discuss whether Bitcoin’s path forward is driven primarily by adoption and savings, or by capital flowing in through global credit markets. We also tackle mNAV, concerns around dilution, and Bitcoin per share. TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Why Michael Saylor calls this the most exciting year in Bitcoin history 2:34 Setting the record straight: why Strategy sold 32 Bitcoin 3:55 How Strategy works like a reserve bank built on Bitcoin 6:58 How the company turns Bitcoin gains into payouts - without the tax hit 9:12 Answering the short sellers 11:40 Why a better credit rating could put Strategy in the S&P 500 13:27 Saylor responds to his critics on X 14:47 The constant balancing act: chasing growth without taking on too much risk 16:22 The balance sheet explained: what the company actually owes 20:56 What “digital credit” really means, in plain terms 24:06 What it really costs to raise money 27:31 The trade-off: more Bitcoin per share vs. more risk 41:07 Why idealism alone won’t get Bitcoin there - but big money can 49:42 The “AI summer” pulling money away and when it flows back to Bitcoin
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Michael Michael Saylor believes Bitcoin can 500x. The more interesting question is how. At BTC Prague, we discuss whether Bitcoin’s path forward is driven primarily by adoption and savings, or by capital flowing in through global credit markets. We also tackle mNAV, concerns around dilution, and Bitcoin per share. TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Why Michael Saylor calls this the most exciting year in Bitcoin history 2:34 Setting the record straight: why Strategy sold 32 Bitcoin 3:55 How Strategy works like a reserve bank built on Bitcoin 6:58 How the company turns Bitcoin gains into payouts - without the tax hit 9:12 Answering the short sellers 11:40 Why a better credit rating could put Strategy in the S&P 500 13:27 Saylor responds to his critics on X 14:47 The constant balancing act: chasing growth without taking on too much risk 16:22 The balance sheet explained: what the company actually owes 20:56 What “digital credit” really means, in plain terms 24:06 What it really costs to raise money 27:31 The trade-off: more Bitcoin per share vs. more risk 41:07 Why idealism alone won’t get Bitcoin there - but big money can 49:42 The “AI summer” pulling money away and when it flows back to Bitcoin

Natalie Brunell ⚡️

544,747 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten

Bitcoin is money AND digital gold. The two are not mutually exclusive. For Michael Saylor - it's the purest form of digital credit. For David Marcus - it's the payment rails of the future. "No one cares what humans think about how people need to Bitcoin because it's an unopinionated, code-based money platform." The Lightspark founder is forging ahead with building Bitcoin-based payment rails, while Saylor and Strategy are doubling down on Bitcoin-backed financial products. "I'm really grateful that Michael is really focused on the store of value use case, and he can do that, and I can be the one focused on bringing utility to Bitcoin. Both things will actually help one another to make Bitcoin more relevant to many more people and that's the beauty of building on an open network," Marcus told Robert Baggs and me on our latest Chain Reaction show. Marcus has been keenly focused on abstracting complexity away from payments using Bitcoin payments infrastructure with the launch of Lightspark Grid. "It's like Bitcoin as a network being used to move all kinds of other money, whether it's stablecoin or fiat at the edges, and you don't even understand that you're using Bitcoin. For instance, if you're a SoFi client in the US, and you want to send money to Europe or India, Brazil or Mexico, you send dollars and the other person on the other side receives Mexican peso, you have no clue you're using Bitcoin. And it's like magical TCP/IP for money between payment systems in the world." Bitcoin infrastructure works. Like most widely adopted technologies, the average person has no idea what's going on under the hood. That is the future that takes Bitcoin global. And it's being built in real-time.
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Bitcoin is money AND digital gold. The two are not mutually exclusive. For Michael Saylor - it's the purest form of digital credit. For David Marcus - it's the payment rails of the future. "No one cares what humans think about how people need to Bitcoin because it's an unopinionated, code-based money platform." The Lightspark founder is forging ahead with building Bitcoin-based payment rails, while Saylor and Strategy are doubling down on Bitcoin-backed financial products. "I'm really grateful that Michael is really focused on the store of value use case, and he can do that, and I can be the one focused on bringing utility to Bitcoin. Both things will actually help one another to make Bitcoin more relevant to many more people and that's the beauty of building on an open network," Marcus told Robert Baggs and me on our latest Chain Reaction show. Marcus has been keenly focused on abstracting complexity away from payments using Bitcoin payments infrastructure with the launch of Lightspark Grid. "It's like Bitcoin as a network being used to move all kinds of other money, whether it's stablecoin or fiat at the edges, and you don't even understand that you're using Bitcoin. For instance, if you're a SoFi client in the US, and you want to send money to Europe or India, Brazil or Mexico, you send dollars and the other person on the other side receives Mexican peso, you have no clue you're using Bitcoin. And it's like magical TCP/IP for money between payment systems in the world." Bitcoin infrastructure works. Like most widely adopted technologies, the average person has no idea what's going on under the hood. That is the future that takes Bitcoin global. And it's being built in real-time.

Gareth Jenkinson

19,172 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten

When you think Bitcoin is done, someone is still buying. Anthony Scaramucci, founder of SkyBridge Capital, just said that despite the recent market downturn, they are still continuously buying Bitcoin. He remains long-term bullish on Bitcoin and has said, “When you truly study Bitcoin, you naturally gravitate toward it. Entering early may come with volatility, but the rewards ultimately go to those who position themselves ahead of time. We are still in the early stages of the Bitcoin market.” Don’t wait for the perfect bottom
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When you think Bitcoin is done, someone is still buying. Anthony Scaramucci, founder of SkyBridge Capital, just said that despite the recent market downturn, they are still continuously buying Bitcoin. He remains long-term bullish on Bitcoin and has said, “When you truly study Bitcoin, you naturally gravitate toward it. Entering early may come with volatility, but the rewards ultimately go to those who position themselves ahead of time. We are still in the early stages of the Bitcoin market.” Don’t wait for the perfect bottom

Shawn

69,931 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten

Why the S&P 500 Will Be Forced To Buy Bitcoin In this Swan Bitcoin presentation, Adam Livingston explains why passive index mechanics will force the S&P 500 to ingest Bitcoin exposure the moment Strategy qualifies for inclusion. This is not about taste or ideology, it is about rules, float, weights, and the blind math of passive flows. When the index updates the list, trillions in benchmark trackers and benchmark huggers follow, which pipes Bitcoin exposure into every 401k and pension that hugs the S&P. You will learn: - The exact checklist for S&P 500 inclusion and how Strategy now clears it - How passive funds like SPY and VOO are compelled to buy new entrants, not asked - Why a small initial weight can still trigger billions in forced purchases - How spot Bitcoin ETFs amplify the same flows with daily rebalancing - The reflexive loop that forms when Bitcoin rises, Strategy’s weight rises, and passive capital buys again - Real world proofs from prior inclusions that show how fast the index effect hits - Why miners, exchanges, and Bitcoin treasury companies create a second order wave of exposure - Why this is inevitability, not opinion Who this is for: - Finance pros who want the plumbing, not the memes - Bitcoiners who need a clean, shareable explanation for skeptics - CIOs, advisors, and analysts who live and die by benchmark risk Why it matters: - The passive system cannot ignore Bitcoin once the rules are triggered - Index mechanics will distribute Bitcoin exposure across global portfolios by default
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Why the S&P 500 Will Be Forced To Buy Bitcoin In this Swan Bitcoin presentation, Adam Livingston explains why passive index mechanics will force the S&P 500 to ingest Bitcoin exposure the moment Strategy qualifies for inclusion. This is not about taste or ideology, it is about rules, float, weights, and the blind math of passive flows. When the index updates the list, trillions in benchmark trackers and benchmark huggers follow, which pipes Bitcoin exposure into every 401k and pension that hugs the S&P. You will learn: - The exact checklist for S&P 500 inclusion and how Strategy now clears it - How passive funds like SPY and VOO are compelled to buy new entrants, not asked - Why a small initial weight can still trigger billions in forced purchases - How spot Bitcoin ETFs amplify the same flows with daily rebalancing - The reflexive loop that forms when Bitcoin rises, Strategy’s weight rises, and passive capital buys again - Real world proofs from prior inclusions that show how fast the index effect hits - Why miners, exchanges, and Bitcoin treasury companies create a second order wave of exposure - Why this is inevitability, not opinion Who this is for: - Finance pros who want the plumbing, not the memes - Bitcoiners who need a clean, shareable explanation for skeptics - CIOs, advisors, and analysts who live and die by benchmark risk Why it matters: - The passive system cannot ignore Bitcoin once the rules are triggered - Index mechanics will distribute Bitcoin exposure across global portfolios by default

Swan

26,400 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr