The Real Reason Strategy Dumped $200M Of Bitcoin (He Had To)

0:00If you own Bitcoin, the next 100 days

0:02are going to test you. Bitcoin just

0:04broke below $58,500.

0:06$103 million worth of leverage positions

0:09got wiped out today. And the Bitcoin

0:10ETFs just printed their eighth straight

0:12day of outflows, the worst month in the

0:15history of the entire Bitcoin ETF

0:17products. $4.3 billion completely

0:19erased. And the entire timeline has

0:22decided, seemingly all at once, that

0:23Bitcoin is headed for $40,000. But two

0:26things just happened at the same time

0:28that only line up at the bottom of every

0:31Bitcoin cycle in history. Not most of

0:33them, every single one. The first is

0:36that the tourists are finally selling.

0:38The ETF money, so the people who showed

0:40up and bought Bitcoin because their

0:41financial adviser finally told them that

0:43it was okay, are dumping [snorts] at a

0:45record pace. And the second is that the

0:47long-term holders, the most experienced,

0:49highest conviction hands in this market

0:51are sitting on a massive share of their

0:53supply underwater and buying Bitcoin

0:55harder than they ever have before. You

0:57have weak hands capitulating while

0:59strong hands accumulate. That is the

1:01signal and that's what the floor of a

1:03bare market actually looks like. So, in

1:05the next 15 minutes, I'm going to show

1:06you why the next 100 days matter so

1:09much. I'm going to show you who is

1:11quietly buying Bitcoin faster than at

1:13any moment ever recorded while retail

1:15sells the lows. And I'm going to show

1:16you what Michael Sailor did yesterday

1:18that permanently ended the single most

1:20dangerous argument against Bitcoin

1:22entirely. And I'm also going to show you

1:24the one macro risk that could still

1:25break all of it. So you walk in with

1:27your eyes open. Let's get into it. So I

1:30want you to hold one image in your head

1:31for the next 15 minutes because I'm

1:33going to keep coming back to it. Picture

1:35two doors, two different worlds. Behind

1:37door number one is the crowd. The crowd

1:39is the tourists and they're selling.

1:41They're pulling money out of the ETFs at

1:43a record pace and they're screaming that

1:44Bitcoin is going to zero. But behind

1:46door number two is a much smaller group.

1:49They're quiet. They're not posting.

1:51They're not talking about buying

1:52Bitcoin, but they're buying Bitcoin

1:54faster than they have at any other

1:56moment in the history of this asset.

1:58Every cycle, at every bottom, the market

2:00splits into these two camps. So, by the

2:03end of this video, I want you to know

2:04exactly which one you're standing in

2:06front of. So, let's start with indicator

2:08number one, and that is the tourist

2:10flush because the data is genuinely

2:12ugly, and it deserves to be taken

2:13seriously. The ETF outflows are brutal.

2:16You can see here, this is the eighth

2:17straight day, another $231 million

2:20pulled, $4.3 billion gone in June alone,

2:23which is the worst month on record. You

2:25have 30-day momentum falling to 101,000

2:28Bitcoin, which is the lowest reading in

2:30the entire history of the Bitcoin ETFs.

2:32For comparison, at the absolute peak of

2:34ETF demand all the way back in March of

2:362024, that same number was positive

2:40181,000 Bitcoin. So, we've gone from the

2:42strongest institutional demand ever

2:44recorded to the weakest, as you can see

2:46right here, in about 26 months. The

2:48funds that were the engine of this

2:49entire cycle have flipped into reverse.

2:52And right now, they are the source of

2:54selling pressure, not the support. So,

2:56if you only look at that, the bare case

2:58writes itself. You have no institutional

3:00bid. The price is 53% off of its high.

3:03You have momentum at a record low.

3:05Bitcoin is done. It's going to zero. But

3:08here is the mechanism that nobody's

3:10walking you through. And it's the entire

3:12reason this is indicator one and not a

3:14death sentence. The ETF holders were

3:16sold to you as the diamond hands. These

3:18were the institutions, the advisers, the

3:20allocators who were finally giving

3:22Bitcoin its legitimacy. And yes, they

3:24hold a lot of Bitcoin. But holding a lot

3:26is not the same as having conviction.

3:29These are the tourists. These are the

3:30cohort that showed up last at the

3:32highest prices because their financial

3:34adviser finally gave them permission.

3:36And tourists do one thing at the first

3:39sign of real pain. They leave. What you

3:41are watching right now is the final

3:43cohort of selling at the exactly wrong

3:46time. The same way that the weakest

3:48hands always do. Record outflows from

3:50the people who arrived last is not a top

3:53signal. It is the textbook signature of

3:56a Bitcoin bottom. So, that's indicator

3:58number one, and it just fired. And we

4:00have the receipts on indicator number

4:02two, because this is where it stops

4:03being a narrative and starts being an

4:05onchain fact. Right now, roughly 45% of

4:08long-term holder supply is sitting at a

4:10loss. I want you to sit with that number

4:12because it's extraordinary. Long-term

4:14holders are the most experienced, most

4:16patient, highest conviction cohort in

4:18the entire Bitcoin market. But almost

4:20half of their coins are underwater.

4:22Here's why that matters. That exact

4:24level around 45% of long-term holder

4:26supply and loss has been reached at

4:28every single cycle bottom in Bitcoin's

4:31history. Not most of them, as you can

4:32see right here, every single one. We are

4:35now standing in the exact same zone that

4:37produced the Bitcoin bottom in 2015,

4:392018, and 2022. And we got there this

4:42time without price even breaking below

4:4554% from its high, which tells you that

4:48the foundation underneath this market is

4:50structurally stronger than it ever has

4:52been. So now ask the question that the

4:54whole cycle hinges on. If the long-term

4:57holders are already underwater and they

4:59still haven't sold, who exactly is there

5:01left to sell? That's the open loop. Hold

5:03on to it because the answer is the

5:05entire bullc case. And I'll talk about

5:06it in a few minutes. First, I need to

5:08widen the lens here and help you guys

5:10zoom out because Bitcoin isn't trading

5:12in a vacuum and I never pretend that it

5:14is. The honest read on the macro

5:16backdrop right now, as I've been saying

5:18over the last several videos, if you've

5:19been tuning in, is that Bitcoin is not

5:21getting any help. Headline PCE

5:24inflation, which is the Fed's preferred

5:25metric for inflation, just came in back

5:27above 4%. And the bigger problem is

5:30underneath the surface. Core inflation

5:32and core services inflation are both

5:34rising again. That matters because it

5:37changes what the Fed can do. When

5:38inflation reacelerates, the Fed can't

5:40cut. So liquidity stays tight and every

5:42risk asset on the board, including

5:44Bitcoin, has to fight upstream. And this

5:47is the part that the Bitcoin only crowd

5:49keeps getting wrong. A lot of what's

5:51happening to Bitcoin right now isn't

5:53even about Bitcoin. It's not about

5:54Michael Sailor, which we'll get to in a

5:56minute. It's about interest rates, which

5:57have been held at 5.5% for well over a

6:00year now. And they're reshaping how

6:01every investor on Earth allocates

6:03capital. When you get four or 5%

6:06risk-free in a US Treasury, the bar for

6:08owning a volatile asset goes up. We've

6:10watched a whole range of risk assets

6:13struggle over the past few months as the

6:15market repriced where rates are going to

6:17settle and Bitcoin is the most liquidity

6:19sensitive asset in the world. It's the

6:21cleanest proxy for global liquidity that

6:22we have. So when the liquidity impulse

6:24slows, Bitcoin feels it first and it

6:27feels it hardest. The case for owning

6:29Bitcoin is not dead. The timing is

6:31simply being tested. And once the money

6:33printers were back to life, all bets

6:34[snorts] are off. And nothing about the

6:36reason to own Bitcoin has changed. I

6:38want to be very clear about this.

6:39Governments are still drowning in debt.

6:41Welfare costs are still climbing.

6:43Defense spending is still going up. The

6:45political class still has every

6:47incentive to inflate the debt away. None

6:49of that reversed because Bitcoin had a

6:51rough last year. What's being tested

6:53here is not the thesis, it's conviction.

6:56And that's the line that separates those

6:57two doors that I mentioned at the

6:59beginning of the video. If you

7:00understand Bitcoin as a savings

7:01technology, this is a volatility event.

7:04But if you bought the ticker with

7:05borrowed confidence and borrowed money,

7:07this is the part of the movie where the

7:09market takes it back. Now, real quick,

7:11before you go any further, I want to

7:13hear from you on something specific.

7:14I've laid out the bullcase for why this

7:17is Bitcoin's bottom, but I want to know

7:19what would actually change your mind.

7:20What's the one piece of data, the one

7:22level, the one thing that happens that

7:23would make you say, "Okay, this isn't a

7:25bottom. This is something worse." Drop

7:27it in the comments. I read these before

7:28and after every single video, and the

7:30sharpest push back usually comes from

7:32you guys. So, give me your strongest

7:34barecase in the comment section below.

7:36Okay, back to it because I told you I

7:38would show you who's buying and this is

7:40the moment that this entire thing turns.

7:42While the ETFs are bleeding and the

7:44timeline is screaming that Bitcoin is in

7:46a death spiral, we just recorded the

7:48largest spike in whale holdings in

7:50Bitcoin's entire history. You can see

7:51right here, the biggest players, the

7:53wallets that actually move the market

7:55are not selling, they're accumulating

7:58hard at the fastest pace that we have

8:00ever measured. And it's not just the

8:02whales. Those same long-term holders,

8:04the ones sitting 45% underwater, are not

8:07capitulating. You could see right here,

8:08they are also going through their single

8:10largest accumulation phase in the

8:12history of Bitcoin. Listen to that

8:14again. The cohort with the most coins in

8:16the red is doubling down. They're buying

8:19more aggressively than at any point ever

8:21in Bitcoin's entire history. That is not

8:23what fear looks like. That's what

8:24conviction looks like when it's given a

8:26discount. So now I can close that loop

8:29that I mentioned earlier. Who is left to

8:31sell? Almost nobody with conviction. The

8:33long-term holders aren't selling.

8:34They're buying. The whales aren't

8:36selling. They're buying at a record

8:37pace. So the only meaningful seller left

8:40are the tourists, the ETF money, and

8:42they're the ones selling right now.

8:44Which means that we are very likely

8:46watching peak institutional selling

8:48happen in real time. And that's the

8:50whole point of framing this as two

8:52different indicators. Tourists selling

8:54tells you that the weak hands are nearly

8:56out, while long-term holders

8:57accumulating underwater tells you that

8:59the strong hands are loading up on a

9:01discount. When those two things happen

9:03at the same time, you are not looking at

9:05the start of something worse. You are

9:07looking at the floor. Whether it's

9:08another leg down or whether we chop from

9:10now until October, the reality is the

9:12floor for this Bitcoin bare market is

9:14closer than you think. So that's door

9:16number two, the quiet group of

9:17accumulators. Now you can see both sides

9:19of the story. Real quick and then right

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9:55Now, back to the video. And this is

9:57exactly where Michael Sailor walks back

9:59into the story because yesterday he did

10:01something that fits this picture

10:03perfectly. And almost everybody read it

10:05backwards. So, let me set the table

10:07honestly. One week ago, STRC Strategy's

10:10preferred instrument was crashing

10:11towards $74. The timeline was screaming

10:14death spiral and everyone was certain

10:16that Sailor was about to be forced to

10:18dump Bitcoin at the lows to save his

10:19company. And I sat right here in this

10:22chair on this channel and told you that

10:24it was not a collapse. It was simply a

10:26leverage flush. I told you that Sailor

10:28had years of runway, no margin call

10:30risk, no forcing mechanism to force him

10:32to sell his Bitcoin, and every incentive

10:34to act from strength instead of panic.

10:37And that's exactly what happened. Here's

10:39what actually happened. Yesterday,

10:40Strategy announced its digital credit

10:42capital framework. And I'm going to give

10:44it to you point for point because it

10:45matches what I told you last week. They

10:48raised their dollar reserve to $2.5

10:50billion, which is 17.4 months of

10:52dividend coverage in cash alone, and

10:54nearly 26 months once you count their

10:56authorized Bitcoin sale capacity, which

10:58I'll get into in a moment. They hiked

11:00the stretch dividend to 12% and they

11:02authorized a billion dollar buyback to

11:04retire their other preferred instruments

11:05below par, which is the exact accretive

11:08move that I said was sitting right there

11:10the entire time. And STRC, the thing

11:12that was supposedly in a death spiral

11:14one week ago, is now up more than 20%

11:16off of its lows, back to $85 and

11:18climbing. Bitcoin, MSTR, and STRC all

11:22rallied on the news. Now, I'm going to

11:24be straight with you here and try to

11:25stay humble because the market humbles

11:26everyone eventually, but I'd be lying if

11:28I said that this didn't age well. So,

11:30I'll ask the question, where are all of

11:32the death spiral people now? Now, here's

11:35the headline that scared everybody.

11:37Strategy also authorized a Bitcoin

11:39monetization program. So, in other

11:41words, they gave themselves to right to

11:43sell up to $1.25 billion in Bitcoin. And

11:47everyone lost their mind because for

11:49years the entire bare case against

11:50strategy was Sailor being forced to sell

11:53and when he does he takes the whole

11:54market down with him. But listen to this

11:57closely because this is the whole ball

11:58game. This is not forced selling. This

12:01is strategy giving itself the option to

12:03sell Bitcoin on its own terms when

12:05selling is more advantageous than

12:07issuing stock to fund buybacks that

12:09retire a $1.29 of preferred for every

12:11dollar they spend. The bears said that

12:13Strategy would be forced to sell, but

12:15Strategy has now issued a press release

12:17saying that they plan on selling from a

12:19position of strength. Those are complete

12:21opposite things. And let me put the

12:23actual size in perspective. Because the

12:26numbers sound scary until you frame it

12:28up to Bitcoin's actual size. $1.25

12:30billion spread out over months. That's

12:32the amount of Bitcoin that Strategy has

12:34said that they may sell at one point.

12:36Bitcoin's daily trading volume daily,

12:38not monthly, is $31.7 billion. So,

12:42Strategy's entire authorized sale, the

12:44thing that many people are panicking

12:46about, is less than 5% of a single day

12:48of Bitcoin trading. It's a rounding

12:50error. It's roughly 2 and a.5% of their

12:51holdings. They're sitting on more than

12:53840,000 Bitcoin. But here's the part I

12:56really need you to understand because

12:58this is the part that actually matters

12:59for every single Bitcoiner watching.

13:01Whether you own a single share of MSTR

13:03or not, I do not. Sailor just ended the

13:06Ponzi argument permanently. For years,

13:09the smartest sounding criticism of

13:10strategy was that the whole thing was

13:12circular. They issue stock to buy

13:13Bitcoin. They issue more stock to pay

13:15the dividend. And it only works as long

13:17as the stock pays high. Issuance funds

13:20issuance. That was the entire

13:21intellectually honest version of the

13:22bare case calling strategy a Ponzi

13:24scheme. As of yesterday, it's dead.

13:27Because Sailor just said that the

13:29primary mechanism to fund the dividend

13:30will be Bitcoin itself. He's now using a

13:33productive appreciating asset to fund

13:35the obligation instead of selling more

13:37paper. That is the opposite of a Ponzi.

13:40So there is no longer an intellectually

13:42honest way to make that argument

13:44anymore. And you're going to watch

13:45people who made it for years quietly

13:47stop making it. And more importantly, it

13:49lets strategy finally become what it was

13:51always trying to be. Think about the

13:52machine that they just built. They buy

13:54Bitcoin on one side. They offer a fixed

13:56income instrument yielding 12% on the

13:58other, which is less than half of what

14:00they believe Bitcoin will compound at

14:01and what it has historically compounded

14:03at on the other side. And they capture

14:05the spread between the two. And they

14:06fund the whole thing with Bitcoin sales

14:08that are smaller than the Bitcoin

14:09they're acquiring. So they are a net

14:11buyer of Bitcoin forever with a business

14:14model that finally closes itself. The

14:16loop is closed. This is a Bitcoin

14:18transmutation machine. That's what got

14:20built yesterday while everyone was

14:21panicking over a headline. And off of

14:23that headline, Bitcoin, MSTR, and STRC

14:27all rallied. So clearly, they love this

14:29more than the haters do. So, there's one

14:31more layer here, and it's the one that

14:33almost nobody is pricing in. As I said

14:35in my very first video on this subject,

14:37and I promise this will be the last

14:39video I do on it for a while. You have

14:41to view everything strategy does through

14:43one lens, the S&P 500. The decision to

14:46give themselves the ability to sell up

14:48to $1.25 25 billion in Bitcoin is built

14:50to satisfy the index requirements at S&P

14:53Global. This was deliberate and the

14:55index that they're trying to enter

14:56represents trillions of dollars in

14:58assets that track it. So if strategy

15:01gets it, Bitcoin becomes the indirect

15:03beneficiary of passive inflows from one

15:05of the largest pools of capital on the

15:07planet. So every single paycheck, every

15:09single month, automatically people will

15:11be indirectly supporting Bitcoin

15:13purchases if strategy gets included in

15:15the S&P 500. The fact that Bitcoin and

15:18MSTR and STRC all soared on the news

15:20that Strategy gave itself the right to

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16:00video. So, that's the spine of it. Now,

16:02let me pull every thread together

16:04because the full picture is the entire

16:06reason that I made this video. Look at

16:07what we actually have in front of us. We

16:09have indicator number one, which is the

16:11Taurus flush. that just fired. Record

16:13ETF outflows means that the weakest

16:15cohort is capitulating at the low. And

16:17indicator number two has fired as well,

16:20which is 45% of long-term holders

16:22underwater, the exact level that has

16:23marked every cycle bottom in history,

16:26with those same holders and the whales

16:28accumulating at a record pace. Both of

16:30the signals that have called every

16:32bottom in Bitcoin's history just went

16:33off at the same time. And on top of all

16:35of it, the single biggest structural

16:37overhang on this entire market, the

16:39strategy death spiral fear, just got

16:41formally removed by Sailor himself.

16:43While every related asset rallied on the

16:46news, the villain of this cycle, the

16:47thing that the entire market was afraid

16:49of, just got slain in public. I told you

16:52at the start to watch which door you're

16:53standing in front of. Door number one is

16:55the crowd, the tourists selling at the

16:57bottom. In door number two is the quiet

16:59group, the whales and the long-term

17:01holders buying with both hands while

17:03everyone else panics. The data could not

17:06be drawing the line between them more

17:07clearly than it is right now. Now, I

17:10have to be honest about what could break

17:11this because I'm not in the business of

17:13selling you certainty. There is one real

17:15risk, and that's the war in Iran. I've

17:18talked about this for the last several

17:19months on the channel. If that conflict

17:21reignites and drives inflation higher

17:22through the back half of this year, it

17:24forces the Fed to stay tight or even to

17:26hike rates. that probably pushes the

17:28economy toward an inflationary

17:30recession. In that scenario, Bitcoin

17:32sells off again and it sells off hard

17:35and that's the one path that invalidates

17:36this setup in the short term. The flip

17:39side is that the straight over muse is

17:40open right now and the US and Iran have

17:42agreed to hold strikes and meet this

17:44week and if that holds the single

17:46biggest macro overhang clears, the skies

17:49open up. That is the variable to watch.

17:51Not the ETF flows, not sailor, but the

17:53macro backdrop. But if you strip it all

17:55the way down, the next 100 days take us

17:57to early October. And as I mentioned in

17:59the last video, that's where I think

18:01this bottoms. Whether it's one more leg

18:03down or just chopping sideways until we

18:04get there. The two indicators that have

18:06called every bottom in Bitcoin history

18:08just fired together. The strongest hands

18:10in the market are buying and the biggest

18:12fear just got neutralized. And the same

18:14people who told you to panic a week ago

18:16have gone completely silent. There's a

18:18consensus forming that we're headed to

18:20$40,000 or even zero. And I'll tell you

18:23what I told you before. The crowd as a

18:25collective is almost never right. But

18:27even if they are, ask yourself the only

18:29question that matters. In five years, is

18:31it going to make a big difference

18:32whether you bought at $58,000 or

18:35$48,000? Chances are it won't. So I

18:38wouldn't sit around waiting for the

18:39perfect entry that the market is never

18:41going to ring a bell to announce. So

18:43remember those two doors. Chances are

18:45the crowd that is selling at the bottom

18:46is also quoting the same man who just

18:49went on television and said Bitcoin was

18:50a useless speculative mechanism that

18:52would dwindle away. Take a listen. Other

18:55than the fact that some people have made

18:57a lot of money like a chain letter, what

18:59what does crypto do?

19:02>> I don't understand the question. What

19:03what what does

19:04>> it's the use of crypto? It pays no

19:06dividend.

19:08>> It doesn't represent an asset you can

19:09put your fingers on. There is nothing

19:11there there. It is just an idea that it

19:15will go up in price. If you trust me, it

19:17will go up in price. when when in the on

19:20an island when shells were used to

19:22represent an hour of work that that you

19:24got 100 people each one

19:26>> comparison this is completely

19:28faith-based represents it represents

19:31proof of work represents proof of work

19:34you're going to be totally wrong on

19:35Bitcoin too you you're you're going to

19:37be wrong on everything you've

19:38>> proof of unnecessary work shouldn't be

19:40worth a bucket of warm spit and it will

19:43not be

19:43>> all right it's only been 20 years so far

19:46so someday you might might be right

19:48about this.

19:48>> And guess what? That same man has been

19:50saying the same thing since Bitcoin was

19:52under $1. The point is this. Every time

19:55the headlines declare Bitcoin dead, it

19:57has marked a bottom, not a top. The

20:00obituaries are the signal. And right

20:02now, they are everywhere. If you want

20:04the full picture on where I think this

20:06cycle bottoms and why, go watch my last

20:08video, which is my latest Bitcoin

20:09update, where I laid out the cycle

20:10timing in detail. It's the perfect next

20:12watch after this one, and I'll see you

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