Bitcoin officially embraced by Secretary Hegseth. 🇺🇸
The Overton window is shifting rapidly. Bitcoin recognized again today as a tool for strategic competition to combat digital authoritarianism.
Another huge moment for Bitcoin in Washington DC.
BREAKING: ADM Paparo, 4-star Admiral and Commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, just testified before the Senate that “Bitcoin shows incredible potential” as a tool for U.S. national security. Watch the full exchange:
$STRC shatters all records—7.3M shares, every single one above threshold.
~4,038 BTC estimated. That's nearly double yesterday's monster session. Volume at 471% of average.
Nine straight days of ATM activity. Uncharted territory.
https://t.co/lVNalzUMK3
What skeptics of @Strategy miss:
Digital Capital ($BTC) outperforms physical capital.
Digital Credit ($STRC) outperforms conventional credit.
Amplified Bitcoin ($MSTR) outperforms wrapped Bitcoin.
Ok, enough…
Stop freaking out. Bitcoin is without doubt the best asset that money can buy.
Real estate? Liquidity trap with huge bid offer spread, and ongoing bleed through maintenance and taxes.
Gold? Absolutely impossible to trade efficiently in the actual asset - get robbed everywhere: transportation, smelting, and broker fees enormous. Plus completely impractical to carry around.
Equities? A crap shoot. If you can invest in good allocators then sure, but unless you are a great trader then buy an index fund and underperform the real rate of debasement.
Bonds? Joke
Venture? Be lucky
Lottery? At least you’re honest at this point.
Just buy bitcoin. It’s 10x better than gold, but trades at a 95% discount to gold.
Be grateful that you discovered it early and stop moaning that it’s so cheap!
I really enjoyed this conversation with Strategy CEO Phong Le. We cover banks coming into Bitcoin, the company's USD reserve, recent FUD and negative sentiment about price, defending MSCI inclusion and the 2026 roadmap.
You also don't want to miss Phong’s origin story. His refugee-to-CEO journey is the kind of perspective that sticks with you: when you’ve lived through instability, you understand why sound money isn’t an ideology...it’s a lifeline.
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Bitcoin FUD and sentiment 2:55 "Digital Money" 6:37 Banks chasing Bitcoin? 10:04 STRC offering 10.75% yield 14:07 Moving people away from 0% yield 17:52 ROC tax efficiency explained 21:19 Building a USD reserve vs selling Bitcoin 24:34 Strategy's Bitcoin evolution Strategy's adaptability 29:28 MSCI index concerns 37:42 Will Strategy be a Bitcoin bank? 41:01 Strong Bitcoin treasury companies 43:06 Strategy's international targets 45:32 More preferred products in 2026? 47:16 Bitcoin beyond politics 50:23 From refugee to CEO 1:01:24 Bitcoin and the American dream
@digitalphong
"Who wants to be the Switzerland of the 21st century and attract all the money in the world?"
At the BFC Symposium, @saylor laid out the three big ideas:
1⃣ Investing in Digital Capital, Credit, and Amplified Equity
2⃣ Integrate Bitcoin into your Banking system and extend credit against it
3⃣ Biggest Idea: Create "High Powered Digital Money" via Digital Credit and a reserve