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Strategys Synthetic Halving: Shaping Bitcoins Future and Cost of Capital

Adam Livingston
/2 days ago
Strategy is reshaping Bitcoins scarcity with massive acquisitions, effectively halving Bitcoin supply through balance sheet firepower. By consistently absorbing up to 50% of newly mined BTC, theyre artificially creating a halving, driving Bitcoin’s scarcity ahead of schedule. This will set the global cost of Bitcoin, where access will require paying premiums, and borrowing will be a luxury for the wealthy or nations. Strategy is positioning itself as the dominant financial superpower in the Bitcoin space.

Strategy is synthetically halving Bitcoin and will set the cost of capital for the next 100 years.

Most people think the Bitcoin supply curve is sacred.

Fixed. Immutable. Untouchable.

They're wrong.

Strategy is manually rewriting Bitcoin’s scarcity schedule right now with balance sheet firepower instead of code.

After the 2024 halving, miners are producing ~450 BTC/day.

That’s ~13,500 new BTC per month entering the global economy.

Strategy, raising billions through ATM and convertible notes, has been aggressively outbidding the market for fresh coins.

Every month, every quarter, they absorb a bigger % of total new supply.

If they can consistently buy 30%, 40%, 50%+ of all new Bitcoin, they are synthetically cutting the available supply in half - or worse - ahead of schedule.

THIS IS A SYNTHETIC HALVING.

Not by protocol, but by acquisition.

It’s a simple equation now:

Real Bitcoin supply available = Newly mined coins - MSTR quarterly absorption.

If the miners produce 13,500 BTC/month and Strategy buys 5,000 of it?

The effective supply curve for the rest of the world is suddenly functioning like there’s another halving already happening.

And not every four years...
 
Every time Saylor pulls the trigger.

You may think this is crazy, but what has happened in the past six months?

Strategy has accumulated 285,980 in the past 182 days.

That's 1,571 BTC per day... FAR outpacing the miners.

Now the brutal part: THE COST OF CAPITAL.

When Bitcoin becomes this scarce:

Access to Bitcoin will require paying a premium.

Lending against Bitcoin will cost more.

Borrowing Bitcoin will become a luxury business reserved for nation-states and corporate whales.

Strategy will control the bottleneck.

They’ll price the risk curve for everyone downstream:

Your mortgage lender?

Your sovereign wealth fund?

Your university endowment?

Your startup treasury?

All of them will pay higher and higher interest rates for access to collateral because Saylor captured the float and created an artificial liquidity famine.

Bitcoin's global cost of capital will no longer be set by "the market."

It will be set by the gravitational policies of the first Bitcoin Superpower: Strategy.

If you want Bitcoin, you’ll either:

Buy MSTR equity (at a massive premium).

Borrow Bitcoin (at crushing rates).

Beg for liquidity from Bitcoin overlords.

Or accept your fate as a fiat peasant.

This is the most brilliantly devised method of monetizing scarcity ever conceived and executed.

@Saylor has already won... but there are no signs of stopping accumulation at a breakneck speeds.

He is forging an unassailable destiny of Strategy as the world's greatest financial superpower.

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