The episode covers the growing stress on Michael Saylor's Strategy (MSTR) and its $STRK product trading 15% below par, creating a 'Saylor risk' that is dragging down Bitcoin sentiment. It also discusses the new Fed chair Kevin Warsh's hawkish FOMC pivot, the successful SpaceX IPO making it the 7th largest company, and Coinbase's launch of 21 new products to become an 'everything exchange.'
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Strategy's $STRK preferred stock is trading 15% below par, raising concerns about Michael Saylor's ability to service dividends and causing a 'Saylor risk' that is suppressing Bitcoin's price.
New Fed chair Kevin Warsh held rates but killed forward guidance, with 9 of 18 officials now seeing a hike by year-end, causing a market sell-off.
SpaceX's IPO was a success, briefly becoming the 7th largest company by market cap, with pre-IPO perps on Hyperliquid proving to be a key market signal.
Coinbase announced 21 new products, including tokenized US stocks, options trading, and pre-IPO perps, aiming to become the user's primary financial account.
Crypto trading volumes are at their lowest since September 2024, while real-world asset (RWA) perps are hitting record highs, signaling a shift in market focus.
"My base case right now is 70% odds that they keep on doing what they're doing strategy, which is selling small amounts of MSTR every month at non-accretive levels, crushing the stock until it falls to 0.7 MNAV... 25% chance he does the right thing and sells $3-4B of Bitcoin to buy time... 5% chance he does the nuclear option: kill dividends and let the preferred fall to 30-40 cents on the dollar."
— Jeff Dorman (paraphrased, sourced from tweet)
"The thing that makes SpaceX so valuable is that it's so valuable."
— Bill Ackman (referring to SpaceX's ability to acquire other assets using its high share price)
"We got governments coming to protect children by banning social media access for children under 16... if you get into the implementation details of how you actually ban the internet for a specific person and not another specific person, I think that's when it gets a little bit crazy."
— David Hoffman