Two cycles ago, few in the Bitcoin community knew or cared about Michael Saylor and his software analytics company, Microstrategy (now renamed to just “Strategy”). But what has become a stock market darling in 2024/25 started as a stagnating company trying to figure out what to do with $500 million in cash equivalents at a […]| The Bitcoin Manual
The Bitcoin space is buzzing with news of yet another corporation announcing its “Bitcoin treasury strategy.“ It’s the hottest trend since slapping an AI on your business and is starting to approach the phase where fundamentals don’t matter, drum up a Bitcoin SPAC and let’s start selling bonds or preferred equity. Every week seems to […]| The Bitcoin Manual
This cycle has seen corporate stackers entering the chat. While Strategy had a head start, a few more companies have joined the group chat, including listed companies such as MetaPlanet, Kulr, Rumble, GameStop, and Tesla, all of which have allocated some of their balance sheets to Bitcoin. While these companies make their purchases public and […]| The Bitcoin Manual
The traditional narrative around Bitcoin adoption has often centred on metrics like the number of wallets downloaded, nodes running, or merchants accepting Bitcoin as payment. While these indicators certainly matter, they miss a more profound shift occurring in the global financial landscape: Bitcoin’s growing role as a store of value and its increasing share of […]| The Bitcoin Manual
This launch of a Bitcoin SPAC was not on my bingo card for 2025, especially in a market that has been trading sideways for some time now; you’d expect this type of action within a raging bull market. While we have broken through the legendary $ 100,000 mark, it’s been pretty quiet since with many […]| The Bitcoin Manual