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TheWikiJedi's avatar

Another loser you should add are customers of the failing software business who are mostly locked in — you can see who they are on the MicroStrategy website, a lot of huge names in business there that have had to endure the following:

a) a company mostly making money from consulting / support services because their software sucks

b) a distracted (technically former) CEO

c) company is taking on debt to buy a risk asset instead of reinvesting into the core business

These often big, legacy enterprise customers and government contracts were responsible for MicroStrategy’s initial success in the late 90s/2000s

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Engineer Guy's avatar

It is interesting that there is a mathematical model of a Ponzi scheme. https://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/rsmith43/MAT3395/PonziProject.pdf. You just have to add two non-ponzi factors to the model. One is that people who want to launder illicit cash will accept 5-10 % loss as a cost of doing that type of business. The second is that people can create a bitcoin for less that the current "value" of the Bitcoin. https://nftevening.com/bitcoin-mining-cost/

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John Levine's avatar

Good article but you missed the levered ETFs that crank up the volatility even more.

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Forager's avatar

Verified my gut feel. Thx

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sw's avatar

Can I ask how the $1.95bn annual fresh capital requirement is calculated? My understanding is that Minsky moment can only come in 2027 if BTC stays below a certain price level by then, the STRK / STRF dividends will have some ongoing cash pressures but workable if they continue to ATM common at the current mNAV premium

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Based Toschi's avatar

Is calculated based on the total debt that must be paid to 2030(accumulated to raise the cash they raised till now) divided by year + an estimation of ~200M that is the cost of the software business after the P&L, basically how much they loose with it after revenues.

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Indie's avatar

Michael Saylor was last seen curled in a ball on the floor of his shower crying after people started reading this. Great work.

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Lorenzo Artioli's avatar

Complimenti ottima lucida analisi 👍🏻

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Adam Smith's avatar

Excellent analysis. If you want to see what he's been up to lately, check out my analysis of his monologue about the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve here: https://youtu.be/cMa9yHf5wbI

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