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[Heavily Armed Clown @heavilyarmedc]

I am not a MSTR shareholder but I am a BTC holder.

In the wake of many online loudly proclaiming the imminent liquidation of MSTR's BTC position, a glance at their metrics dashboard would tell you this is (probably) not the case.

$52 Billion in BTC
&
$2.25 Billion USD cash position (30.4 months of USD cash at $888 million per year, not sure if this figure includes debt interest obligations)

VS

$8.2 Billion in debt
&
$8.4 Billion in preferreds

That's a $54.25 Billion asset position against $16.6 Billion in liabilities & preferreds...

Even if BTC dropped another 68% from here (unlikely) and they ended up flat/underwater on their debt to asset ratio, they would (likely) dilute the snot out of their stock before liquidating any BTC (they have 10.3 Billion in Authorized class A shares and only about 324 Million shares outstanding).

Much of their debt doesn't mature until 2030-2032 anyway.

TLDR Stock dilution is not a systemic risk to BTC.

[Sinay @SinayDeFi]

@spacexbt Most of this WASN'T bought with borrowed money, can't believe this idea is still widely shared here

[Sinay @SinayDeFi]

@CorySwan Would love to hear a bit more on your views about this, since I don't get exactly why these tricks wouldn't work

[Eric Balchunas @EricBalchunas]

The dread I see from bitcoiners (and the football spiking from the haters) is very short-sighted to me given that since 2022 (right before the BlackRock ETF filing) Bitcoin is up 429%, gold 177%, Silver 350%, QQQ 140%. In other words bitcoin spanked everything so bad in '23 and '24 (which ppl seem to forget) that those other assets still haven't caught up even after having their greatest year ever and btc being in a coma. IMO what happened was the 'institutionalization' narrative got priced in very quickly and ahead of it all actually happening. So it had to take a breather so the actual narrative could catch up to the price. Feel better now? You're welcome.

[Sinay @SinayDeFi]

@meta_alchemist Up & to the right alchimist

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[*Walter Bloomberg @DeItaone]

MOST INVESTORS HAVE ZERO ALLOCATION TO CRYPTO: BANK OF AMERICA

Bank of America’s September survey shows 67% of fund managers hold no crypto. Only small fractions allocate 2% (3%), 4% (3%), or 8%+ (1%). The average allocation is just 0.4%. Overall, 84% haven’t started structural crypto investments, while only 8% have.

[Ignas | DeFi @DefiIgnas]

MAKE L2 TOKENS GREAT AGAIN!

L2 tokens are non-investible: low fee generation, no fee sharing, and governance is overvalued.

Layer 2s should acquire as much $ETH as possible.

It's the true Ethereum x L2 alignment:

- L2 tokens act like speculative assets akin to TradFi Crypto Treasury Company stocks

- They manage $ETH treasury, making governance meaningful

- L2 tokens trade with $ETH price, aligning incentives but can trade at ETH reserve's premium.

Current Layer 2 reserves are abysmal: Arbitrum holds just $80M, and Optimism $66M in $ETH

Adjusted to Market Cap, it's peanuts.

Gnosis is doing much better: $241M in ETH for $391M market cap.

Real chads at $GNO team.

What's stopping L2s from acquiring $ETH?

Arbitrum, Optimism and other L2 DAOs should make governance proposals ASAP.

[U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission @SECGov]

Key points from Chairman Paul Atkins’ remarks today at “DeFi and the American Spirit,” SEC’s Crypto Task Force Roundtable on Decentralized Finance – a 🧵

[*Walter Bloomberg @DeItaone]

TEXAS HOUSE APPROVES BILL TO CREATE BITCOIN RESERVE

[Sinay @SinayDeFi]

Here we go, the anticipated scam pump ahead of unlocks

[Aggr News @AggrNews]

TRUMP TO HOST “TRUMP DINNER”, FOR $TRUMP HOLDERS: WEBSITE

[Brian Brookshire @btc_overflow]

But how do convertible bond ETFs like $BMAX affect the CB market and $MSTR price?

They don't merely create an additional source of demand for new CB issuance. What is really interesting about these ETFs is the after market they provide and how that affects demand for CBs and MSTR price.

Counterintuitively, the deeper ITM convertible bonds get, the less valuable they become to CB arb traders. That's because CB arb traders are gamma traders and gamma goes to zero the further ITM an option gets.

However, unlike CB arb traders, simple buy and hold bond holders do primarily buy the bonds for price appreciation and any interest they might carry.

Enter BMAX. As MSTR price rises past the conversion prices on older CBs, it creates a win-win for arb traders to sell them to BMAX.

BMAX acquiring CBs from arb traders has two further consequences:
1) CB arb traders close their hedges, reducing short-interest on MSTR.
2) Opens room on the books for CB arb traders to absorb newer, more profitable issuance.

If we look at the actual relative weighting of BMAX's MSTR convertible bond holdings, the numbers are as expected if this were actually taking place. ITM CBs are heavily overweighted vs. OTM CBs than if simple volume weightings were used.

Another fact that stands out is that the two CBs with conversion price nearest current market price (Mar 2031 $232.72 and Mar 2030 $433.43) have less divergence from simple volume weighting than their counterparts.

This, too, makes sense because CBs near the money where gamma is highest are the most valuable to CB arb traders.

So in summary, convertible bond ETFs like BMAX lubricate the CB (and MSTR) market by:

1) Creating a win-win aftermarket for CB arb traders to sell ITM CBs that are no longer viable for gamma trading to buy and hold investors who want the benefit of price appreciation and any interest payments.

2) Reducing short-interest on MSTR when CB arb traders sell the bonds and close their hedges.

3) Increasing capacity for CB arb traders to absorb newer, more profitable issuance by clearing older CBs off the books.

Not financial advice. This is an explanation of market dynamics and not an endorsement of BMAX as an investment (I do not hold a position).

[Sinay @SinayDeFi]

@thedefivillain Nice call! They're officialy open to follow MSTR playbook according to their sec document

[Brian Brookshire @btc_overflow]

Details from the $GME 10-K: Groundwork laid for a full blown bitcoin treasury strategy including equity and debt issuance to buy bitcoin. Extensive disclosures about bitcoin.

Let's see how soon they start bitcoin buys.

[GameStop @gamestop]

An announcement regarding Bitcoin

[Sinay @SinayDeFi]

Not exactly, I may be wrong here but I think you refer to the dividend yield, which is based on the liquidation price and the market price, therefore variable

But this is a theoretical one, it measures the yield you'd realize if STRK are redeemed compared to actual market price

Dividends are actually fixed 8% on a 100$ basis, so always 8$

[Sinay @SinayDeFi]

That's your playbook, which is ofc great because you made fortune this way

But don't you believe this strategy comes to an end as we move into a new era for crypto and alts especially?

Also hard to imagine stocks pumping as much as during the last decade, except if AI disrupts everything in the medium term

[David Sacks @davidsacks47]

Over the past decade, the federal government sold approximately 195,000 bitcoin for proceeds of $366 million. If the government had held the bitcoin, it would be worth over $17 billion today. That’s how much it has cost American taxpayers not to have a long-term strategy.

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