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Palantir, MicroStrategy and Axon are now in the Nasdaq 100

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MicroStrategy joining is a farce, they are a middling software company strapped to the size of some weird financial engineering.

Borrow money to buy bitcoin, reducing the supply of bitcoin so the price increases allowing you borrow more money, just deranged.

Not sure if its that simple. MicroStrategy is buying BTC since its ~10k, which sounds easy but actually requires some insane strength for actually holding it until today 100k+. They actually believed in the asset and got rewarded for it. Banks investing in Gold is pretty much the same.

Gold was a multimellenial currency that then became an international standard. It’s not volatile. It still is treated as a store of value to combat inflation and currency debasement.

Bitcoin is not a currency. No one uses it as a medium of exchange. It’s a speculative asset that behaves like a kangaroo on crack.

one could argue bitcoin is used as a currency considerably more often than gold, so I'm not sure what your point is, as all the arguments against btc you can apply to gold just the same (except time, obviously)

Comments like this remind me that we are still so early.

What properties of gold do you think led to it becoming globally recognised as good money?

I don't see it that way, they are offering a yield subscription service thats resulted in the best performing bonds in the entire credit market

These corporate bonds currently have a B grade and will continue rising to A grade, opening up the flood gates of who can buy them

The bond market is much larger than the stock market but is largely ignored by retail traders because of its perceived boringness

Despite the B grade, they are currently under selling these bonds for the size of the appetite for these bonds

they are both the exchange and issuer for a coveted financial product, which is fine in the primary market but unique in that they are the only issuer of this financial product

and yes that is intrinsically tied to the special bitcoin operation. it would be nice if the bitcoin holdings had some kind of yield or was productive in some way, but the lack of that for a commodity or inventory isn't unique to bitcoin or many companies’ balance sheets

in comparison to say, De Beers constricting the supply of diamonds, or gold holders, bitcoin’s much more advanced properties that transparently show the whole supply allow for confidence in the price discovery and future price discovery

The bonds are a low overhead highly scalable fintech service, very similar to the other darlings in Nasdaq. The bitcoin inventory justifies the bonds.

Well, it's not that simple. They don't just go to a bank and borrow money.

They are acting more like a fund which allows other institutions to invest into Bitcoin.

And this has a use case only because of the reclutance of outgoing US Democrats government and Gensler's personal reclutance to provide regulatory clarity. Had Bitcoin ETFs approved 10 years ago when they were first applied we would not have this kind of outlier.

ETFs only allow purchasing of spot bitcoin IOUs, whereas MSTR is open to a far bigger market (e.g. options, bonds, convertible bonds etc.)

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