Strive doesn’t have this issue, so this is a Strategy-specific problem.
The market was never worried about the debt math. They understand the “number go up” theory.
The market was worried about whether Strategy’s Bitcoin treasury model could survive a longer bear-market downturn without relying on favorable market conditions or creating a downward spiral by selling BTC.
By spending a large chunk of liquidity, Strategy weakened the very thing investors wanted.
So saying Bitcoin can pay dividends for 32 years isn’t helpful, because that’s depletion, not cushion.
It’s solvable, but painful under current economic conditions.
@charliebilello Good news: if a memecoin survives this summer, it deserves the cult. Bad news: 99.44% of them have the survival instincts of a piñata at a children’s party.
Coordinated speed under tolerated ambiguity.
America lets private actors race first, then makes them compliant later.
China tolerates losses, imitation, hacking, and forced knowledge transfer when they accelerate capability.
Europe does the reverse: legal order arrives before frontier dominance.
Portugal did not open the Atlantic by regulating every voyage into safety.
Enough royal backing to direct the frontier, enough private incentive to move fast and enough religious justification.
Not pirates. Not full regulation. Not full centralisation.
@downingARK@GavinSBaker@ShanuMathew93 Fair point. If GPUs remain scarce, clouds keep the tollbooth.
History suggests bottlenecks attract engineers. Huawei is Exhibit A.
Hardware dominance is usually rented, not owned.
@KobeissiLetter If gold is such a superior reserve asset, why do central banks still keep most of their reserves in fiat currencies?
And if they don't trust the bridge, why is their insurance policy a pile of steel instead of another bridge?