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#GameStop will be “investing” some of the $4.6 billion cash pile it accumulated by dumping #GME shares on retail apes (who are tbh significantly dumber than crypto bros, which is impressive) into bitcoin.

This follows #MichaelSaylor of #MicroStrategy's entreaties to the company a few weeks ago, because pretty clearly Saylor’s #MSTR / #STRK / #STRF ponzi scheme is running out of steam and he desperately needs other people’s money to prop up the scam.

coindesk.com/markets/2025/03/2

FT Alphaville weighs in on #MicroStrategy's bizarre new "strife" (#STRF) bitcoin accumulation strategy.

> "#MichaelSaylor has pitched it as a way to tap into the vast pool of fixed-income investors who generally prefer stability and predictable returns. Yet Strife offers neither. It exposes investors to bitcoin’s downside (since Strategy’s creditworthiness hinges on its crypto holdings) without giving them any upside if the cryptocurrency soars. The dividend is fixed, so if bitcoin 'moons', Strife holders are left watching from the sidelines. It’s like being invited to an all-you-can-eat buffet but only allowed to smell the food."

> "Buried in the fine print of the prospectus is a crucial detail: the board can suspend dividends altogether. It’s essentially a 'trust me' deal."

ft.com/content/20984de7-4a63-4

One week ago #MicroStrategy (#MSTR, the world's largest holder of bitcoin) announced they were raising $21 billion (1/3rd of the entire company) via a new "perpetual strike preferred stock" called #STRK to raise cash to pump the price of bitcoin.

Today now suddenly they are announcing they will raise money via yet *another* financial instrument "strife" (#STRF) to pump the price of bitcoin.

absolutely wild. bitcoin cannot be "digital gold" if its price depends on the solvency of a single company (which it now does)

* STRK announcement: strategy.com/press/strategy-an
* STRF announcement: strategy.com/press/strategy-an

#MicroStrategy's “bitcoin strategy” is going fully pyramidal. The company has spent $33 billion on bitcoins now “worth” roughly $41 billion over the past 5 years (at least $7-8 billion of those bought with borrowed money). Now #MichaelSaylor just announced a $21 billion sale of their special new #STRK perpetual strike “stock” (different from the regular stock, which is #MSTR) to buy even more bitcoin. Note that the market cap of MicroStrategy is ~$60 billion, so that's a sale of 1/3rd (sort of - STRK isn't exactly a share of stock).

Paraphrasing Dan Davies
here, something along the lines of “the nature of fraud is to expand until stopped by an external force”…

the meeting logs of #DavidSacks and #a16z's "Crypto Task Force" that is I guess now running american financial regulation via the #SEC contain many incredible things, but only a single meeting with anyone trying to advocate for the public interest (#BetterMarkets, who deserve a lot of credit for trying).

* SEC page: sec.gov/about/crypto-task-forc
* archived meeting notes: legacy.www.documentcloud.org/a

#MicroStrategy just bought another $2 billion worth of bitcoin with convertible debt (that they will have to pay back despite #MichaelSaylor's blatant lies to the contrary in our new post-regulation era). The price of bitcoin still managed to go down 2% as soon as he announced the purchase.
coindesk.com/markets/2025/02/2

Continued thread

the irony here is that in order to get into the S&P 500 and thus be exposed to trillions of dollars in passive investing ETFs etc (which is Michael Saylor's goal) #MicroStrategy needs to show positive revenue for some period (i think a year? don't quote me). In order to show positive revenue #MSTR needs to be allowed to recognize their bitcoin gain. Recognized gains get taxed... but if MSTR has to pay taxes on those gains they will have to sell bitcoins which will tank the price of both #bitcoin and #MSTR.

Shining example of why a bailout with taxpayer money is really the only way out for the #crypto industry... good thing they have a compliant and friendly administration that's already making plans to do just that.

x.com/profplum99/status/188282

X (formerly Twitter)Michael Green (@profplum99) on XThe community notes on this is incorrect. IF $MSTR wants to “take advantage of” the rules on valuing digital assets at fair value, which it needs to do to become profitable for inclusion in S&P500, it does indeed create a multi-billion tax liability for which he has no funds.

#MichaelSaylor is so smug about his plan to Ponzi #Bitcoin into the stratosphere. He's not even pretending it's not a Ponzi scheme; he deflects by insulting anyone who asks him on his numerous TV appearances and says oh yeah, well, Manhattan real estate prices keep going up and people invest in more real estate, which isn't the greatest analogy either, if you stop and think about the Japanese real estate and stock market bubble of the 1980s and the long-term effects that had on their economy.