⚠️ Several methods of donating were established that raised millions of dollars for these truckers, which never saw their way into their hands as a result of direct intervention by the Trudeau government.
From: Bitcoin Users Value Privacy
Key Insight from Bitcoin for Institutions:
3. Tesla's exit validates the theory - without a dominant individual, institutional pressure will force selling.
Chapter: Strategy (Balance Sheet Strength)
Key Insight from Bitcoin for Institutions:
5. Companies must understand bitcoin's impact on individuals to offer competitive compensation and financial services.
Chapter: Bitcoin Requires a Deflationary Mindset
Like with speech, there cannot be truly free markets without the total freedom to transact .
From: Bitcoin Users Value Privacy
Key Insight from Bitcoin for Institutions:
5. The opportunity is real - bitcoin can help transcend previous system failures, but only with proper institutional frameworks.
Chapter: Epilogue
The Debasement
$7 trillion printed over $15 trillion M2 base - nearly a 50% expansion of the money supply in a short period.
From: Bitcoin for Institutions
The cryptographic model behind bitcoin is based on the fact that private keys do not exist physically and are virtually impossible to guess, yet are incredibly easy to validate.
From: Bitcoin is a Bearer Asset
Key Insight from Bitcoin for Institutions:
3. Companies think in quarters, not years —but bitcoin mastery is closer to a human lifetime than a quarter.
Chapter: Bitcoin Requires More Patience and Time than Institutions Have
Key Insight from Bitcoin for Institutions:
5. The mutual fund integration will be the Trojan horse that brings bitcoin to retirement accounts worldwide.
Chapter: BlackRock (Redefining Portfolio Construction)
Key Insight from Bitcoin for Institutions:
2. Inadequate reporting kills innovation - without proper metrics, even obvious improvements get rejected due to career risk.
Chapter: Epilogue
Individual Debt
A healthy W2 salary is very creditworthy. As borrowing increases, lenders look for guarantors or collateral before lending more.
From: Bitcoin for Institutions
Liabilities had large exposures to rates but very small exposures to equities. Equity returns were prioritized because of a confluence of incentives, and those with executives' ears were ignorant of the risks we were illustrating. The Parallel to Bitcoin: This is the most pertinent parallel to where we are today with bitcoin - the ruthless intractability of institutional incentives. The UK LDI Disaster: LDI became very popular in the UK, but companies that offset liability increases with investment gains ultimately leveraged them via borrowing, causing the very Bank of England bailout that demonstrated the system's fragility. The agency problem that caused US corporate pensions to willfully ...
From: Epilogue
Key Insight from Bitcoin for Institutions:
4. Don't be unintentionally short bitcoin - holdings in banks, payment processors, and bonds may create hidden short exposure.
Chapter: Mutual Funds / ETFs - Wielding the Blade
""Holding a bitcoin treasury and using it in lieu of ETFs is a superior strategy that eliminates the counterparty credit risk entirely.""
— Brian Hirschfield
From: Deferred Compensation - Riding the Wave
The Complacency
Western cash holders were caught off guard, lulled into complacency by fifteen years of gaslighting about how printing money isn't inflationary.
From: Bitcoin for Institutions
Protection from Seizure
Like becoming skilled and responsible enough to own a gun
From: Bitcoin for Institutions
ℹ️ The Great Bond Bull Market: Long-duration bonds were one of the greatest-performing asset classes from 2004 through 2022. Rates went straight down, and if you forgot they were tracking a liability, you might confuse pension assets with gains available for company operations.
From: BlackRock (Redefining Portfolio Construction)
Fiduciary Duty
Executives are legally bound to deliver profits to shareholders and enhance share value.
From: Bitcoin for Institutions
Key Insight from Bitcoin for Institutions:
4. Corporate balance sheet holdings require a dominant individual (like Saylor) to overcome institutional pressure to sell.
Chapter: HODL'ing Bitcoin is Irrational
Key Insight from Bitcoin for Institutions:
3. Institutional failures in bitcoin (FTX, Celsius, etc.) share common themes of not respecting bitcoin's nature.
Chapter: HODL'ing Bitcoin is Irrational
Existential Necessity
It usually requires an existential problem to get all of the battleships aligned around a single long-term objective.
From: Bitcoin for Institutions