Who owns our debt?
Mainly other countries.
And they are selling our debt.
So how is this going to unfold? 1/N
Let's first look at the Sovereigns. 2/N
Japan has already threatened to dump the majority of their treasuries. There are reducing. China is selling for gold. Mainland Europe is not in a position to buy more.
There really is no room to grow here.
Next obvious category: banks 3/N
But these are reeling from 2020. Bank of America in particular is sitting on 100 Billion of unrealized losses. There is not a lot "growth potential" there. And the numbers are small. Remember we have a 2 Trillion deficit that could easily double in a recession. These numbers are an order of magnitude lower.
Obviously, the big category that is going to have to take over is the Fed itself. 4/N
For 3.5 years, Powell has been pretending like he is the second coming of Paul Volker.
But this charade will soon end. The only way out short term is QE baby. Monetization.
But there is one final category. Stablecoins.
And now that the Genius act has passed, this sentence is HIGHLY relevant 5/N
Indeed. We already have 200 Billion of Stablecoins. The plan is is to 15x this and force them all to buy US Treasuries.
Why 15x? You heard the man. Stablecoins will be the biggest holders. MORE than sovereigns which currently own 3 Trillion. 6/N
But were will that 3 Trillion of Stablecoins live?
By definition on a BLOCKCHAIN. 7/N
Here are the candidates 1. ETH 2. Solana
Now, my gut feel is Solana will get the majority of this over time. Lets call it 2 Trillion. 8/N
What does that mean for Solana, currently valued at 88 Billion? Probably a 30x.
I leave that number to @BritishHodl and other naysayers who fail to grasp exactly what is going on.
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🇯🇵📉 Japan rates are suddenly all over X. People are posting scary charts of the 10-year JGB going from 1% to 2% and jumping straight to “global collapse” and “Bitcoin is next.”
They are wrong. Let’s analyze and do a deep dive. 1/N
🇯🇵🇺🇸 Japan is a beast of its own and very different from the U.S. For the last two decades, Japan has lived under zero interest rates and QE — effectively a flat yield curve pinned at zero. 2/N
In that zero-rate world, Japan’s life insurance companies — led by Nippon Life — were completely starved for yield. These are among the most conservative financial institutions on the planet. They’re not speculators. 3/N
Most investors want two things:
✅ Steady income
✅ Long-term upside
Usually, you can’t have both.
Yield means selling your future. Growth means no cash flow.
Bitcoin changes that.
[2] Imagine investing $1M into a Bitcoin partnership fund.
The fund pays you 10% per year — that’s $100K annually, tax-deferred.
Meanwhile, your capital compounds at 30% CAGR with Bitcoin.
After 10 years:
• $1M paid out in cash
• ~$13.8M in Bitcoin value
• No tax until exit.
[3] How is it tax-deferred?
Because it’s not a “dividend” — it’s a return of capital under IRC §731.
As long as distributions don’t exceed your basis, they’re not taxable.
Your basis just declines each year while your Bitcoin grows at the Power Law.
There is a narrative that "bitcoin fixes money printing".
But Stocks, Real Estate and Gold already do that.
Really well. And with much lower volatility that Bitcoin.
Bitcoin does something much different.
It enables you to vastly outperform inflation.
For decades to come.
1/N
Since we went on the Fiat Standard in 1971, we've been printing money at 6.5% which has resulted in about 4.5% inflation, difference being real GDP growth.
We're lower exactly right now, but it was quite a bit higher during the 70s and the Pandemic. 2/N
But traditional asset prices Stocks, Real Estate and Gold have outperformed that, even after taxes. Real Estate with 20% down has been the real winner becuase of leverage 3/N
Even if you know Bitcoin will follow a power-law curve, the ride will be volatile. How will just HODLing do versus kelly criterion rebalancing at 70% and 50% BTC?
We tested this out using 1,000 Monte-Carlo simulations, starting with 100K. 1/6
The 100K investment goes to 1.2 MM on average with a standard deviation of 355K.
So you will make somewhere between a 9x and 13x on your money. If you can stomach the volatility, this is the best strategy.
2/6
But what if you go to a 70% or 50% Kelly allocation?
Mathematically, these rebalancing ratios capture the majority of the compounding benefit while substantially lowering volatility.
Simon Gershowitz shocks markets: Metaplanet adds 5,445 BTC, reaching the iconic 21,000 BTC milestone.
Funded by:
- A ¥100 billion BTC-backed loan via Goldman Sachs Japan
- Issuance of JSTRK, a Japanese-registered yield note modeled after Strategy’s STRK
Bitcoin surges to $138,000 by day’s end.
Gershowitz on X:
“A company that holds Bitcoin is a company that holds time.”
2/13
📅 Thursday, August 21, 2025
Strategy reveals a 20,000 BTC acquisition, funded by convertible senior notes and balance sheet leverage.
In his new book, "How Countries Go Broke" Ray Dalio states the core function of banks is to "match lenders and borrowers, earning a spread".
I will add:
"That function is being completely replaced by Bitcoin and DeFi."
Banks are obsolete. 🧵
For centuries, banks served as trust brokers. They held your money, lent it out, and skimmed the spread. That worked in a world of paper, middlemen, and closed systems.
But today, trust is programmable.
Collateral is digital.
Settlement is instant.
The bank is just code. 2/N
We saw this play out first with exchanges.
Back in 2018, I told Miko Matsumura that DEXs would replace centralized exchanges.
It took a few years, but now it’s obvious: Uniswap, Raydium, Jupiter — they’ve already won. 3/N