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Bitcoin Treasury companies are facing a simple but brutal test: Can they surpass BTC themselves, or do investors have to skip them and buy the asset directly?
“If you don’t, there’s no need to perform the strategies, just buy a Bitcoin ETF,” said Matt Cole, CEO of Strive Asset Management, under a panel in BTC Asia in Hong Kong.
Cole is perhaps best known to be a stubborn advocate for Gamestop Puts BTC on its balance.
On stage, Cole Playbook described as a search for alpha and found ways to surpass BTC without just pouring on Bitcoin-specific risk. Cole explained that this is coming to funding, pointing to a shift from convertible to eternal preferred equity as a way of locking gearing.
He added that the hardest milestone is scale: reaching $ 1 billion in capital, the point where funding is getting cheap enough to support IPOs and larger teams.
“The hardest thing to do for Bitcoin Treasury companies is to come to a billion dollars,” he said, quoting Microstrateys Michael Saylor.
This scale underlined Cole works only with Bitcoin. Ethereum and other tokens, he said, trades too much like shares with changing monetary policies.
“Ethereum provides for a terrible asset for a Treasury company,” Cole said. “Bitcoin goes up for Fiat currency forever because they are being stripped.”
In his opinion, BTC’s regular supply makes it the only asset capable of supporting a geared Treasury strategy designed to put together over time.
Andrew Webley from the smarter web company, a listed British web designer with BTC on the balance sheet, hit a more measured tone in terms of market nod, Bitcoin yield versus dilution and business size.
Smaller companies, he said, has an advantage of raising capital, but transparency and clear risk communication remain as important as mathematics.
“The most important thing you can do as a public company, in my opinion, is to publish our rules first,” Webley said, adding that clear revelations help investors understand the trade-off of a BTC Treasury model.
“If anyone can understand the risk, in our opinion, these things are the very best values in the world,” he added.
The split emphasized the choice that investors face: Invest in companies that pursue aggressive strategies to surpass BTC or favor companies that promise stable growth with clear transparency.
Either way, panelists agreed that Bitcoin’s role as a treasury is only expanded as Fiat continues to be stripped.
Market Movement:
BTC: Bitcoin trades over $ 110,500, which acts slightly lower after a minor withdrawal, although signs of accumulation, such as elastic demand near key support, suggest that market participants remain bullish on the next breakout, according to Coindesk’s market insight bot.
ETH: ETH trades with $ 4300, by 0.6%down. ETH continues to take advantage of strong institutional interest and ETF flow, which supports its long-term structural upside.
Gold: Gold continues to trade near record highs supported by rate-cut expectations and increases the demand for safe haven, although it saw a slight withdrawal in the middle of profitting.
Nikkei 225: Japan’s largest index continues to gather, bent by a combination of strong foreign purchases, driven by the country’s shifts away from prolonged stimulus, corporate reforms and rising yields and Dovish monetary signals from the United States, increasing the global sense of stock.
S&P 500: S&P 500 rose 0.83% to a record 6,502.08, when dealers drew off weak private job data while waiting for Friday’s employment report for clues on rate -cut prospects and recession risks.
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