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What guests say about bitcoin treasury

Sunny has spent fifteen years in bitcoin, and guests who hold it or advise on it talk through the actual mechanics of putting it on a balance sheet, not the price talk. These passages are that, quoted straight from the transcripts.

14 passages from 10 conversations, drawn from 509 conversations and 7,432,473 words in the full archive

• “It's probably, you know, one of these, you know, publicly traded, you know, big like Bitcoin treasury companies that has gone all in and really bet the farm on this and accessed capital markets and done all kinds of financial engineering in order to try to make this strategy work. And I think Michael Sailor's great. I think it's a big net positive for the world. But what is lost in the sauce is that Bitcoin Treasury company shouldn't just mean that.”

  Stephen Cole·I Cashed Out My Retirement... For Bitcoin·at 53:19

• “Your purchasing power is going up forever, um you're going to be able to buy more stuff forever. But in the short term, you may have this idea like of an energy leakage, right? Where like you're actually losing purchasing power. Like all of us that are holding Bitcoin, we lost half our purchasing power from last October. and but I also gained 600% of my purchasing power from last you know from uh August of uh you know 2019 or whatever it was.”

  Brandon·Sound Money Is the Whole Strategy·at 1:03:54

• “One of them that everybody talks about is the inflation hedge, right? So, you know, I'm hedging monetary debasement.”

  Nick Neuman·Reinventing the Swiss Bank with Casa·at 14:17

• “We have We are very lucky and we appreciate the fact that we have now a stronger balance sheet because of this asset, which is Bitcoin and we are very and we are you know, Bitcoin advocates from the very days. But we want to continue looking at investing and if we need to use in a way or another this asset to invest, we we will do it. We again, we're not in the Bitcoin treasury race.”

  Eddy Travia·Eddy Travia: The Man Behind the World's First Blockchain IPO (Coinsilium)·at 29:55

• “That's what we want to help remind the world about and shine a light on at Castle. And we want to build products for organizations and businesses like that to empower them and and make sure that we can go from, you know, maybe tens of thousands, like maybe there's, you know, 20,000 or so of those types of businesses in the country today. There's 35 million potential, you know, business Bitcoin treasury companies in the US that are not yet doing this or thinking about it.”

  Stephen Cole·I Cashed Out My Retirement... For Bitcoin·at 54:45

• “I mean we're talking hundreds of billions of trillions of dollars in variable rate perpetual preferreds backing digital asset treasury companies. And this is going to become like Saylor says Bitcoin is digital capital and uh stretch is digital credit. And I think these digital credit instruments will they're going to take on say fixed income markets.”

  Joseph Onorati·The Michael Saylor of Solana: Inside DFDV & 13.5% Yield Apex Stablecoin·at 34:46

• “Now it's not a short-term remediation. You're not going to save your business in three months. you're not going to, you know, watch some green candle go up, sell out of your position, and then load your balance sheet up with cash. But if you're willing to um take a portion of your balance sheet and allocate it to Bitcoin, then you have the potential to have longevity with your business, pass it down to future generations.”

  Brandon·How Becoming Sovereign Changed Everything for Sovreign·at 8:23

• “People are going to need help with this and we got this just kind of lame stupid uh bull market and people are buying ETFs and digital asset treasury company stock and preferred. I mean, it was just it was like a total joke. It was like a total flop, embarrassment, like really like a black eye on the Bitcoin space in my opinion.”

  Brandon·How Becoming Sovereign Changed Everything for Sovreign·at 13:50

• “It's unfortunate that the people who lost Bitcoin lost their Bitcoin, but in in general, I think this has made people more aware of security. And I I've actually spoken to a lot of people who um who had cold cards and they didn't have their Bitcoin sweeped, but they reset their seed phrase using dice rolls. Like they did 100 dice rolls, they now have a 24word seed phrase.”

  Rajat Soni·Bitcoin and Early Retirement with Rajat Soni·at 15:03

• “The thing is it's very volatile assets. So not many people like not many nation states are willing to spend taxpayers money to buy highly volatile assets or just simply don't have any savings to put into Bitcoin. So we've always been saying one way for nation states to start Bitcoin reserve is to literally issue citizenship in exchange for Bitcoin. start a citizenship by investment program.”

  Katie Ananina·Canadians! Bitcoin or Passport?·at 41:06

• “They will most likely further contribute to your nation state. So yeah, that's definitely one of the way I see nation states actually building their Bitcoin reserve in the upcoming years. And um Citizen X will definitely be part of that.”

  Katie Ananina·Canadians! Bitcoin or Passport?·at 42:39

• “I think Saifedean Ammous, and uh it was you who encouraged me to read Bitcoin Standard more and more. The idea that goes through money and the problem in the core of an ecosystem, which was constantly manipulated to benefit the powers and not the people, that is something that helps me connect dots for people. I talk about what's happening today with the money, what's happening with our salaries, what's happening with the bank accounts, so all of those things.”

  Shambhavi Soni·She Found the Word India Already Had for Self-Custody·at 6:45

• “Probably a lot of people have moved. And the multisig never got tapped because it just required so much more energy compute to get those setups.”

  Brandon Carbellas·Bitcoin's Ruin to Resilience: What Two Weeks Taught Us·at 27:20

• “The universe is a kind place and the more more time we complain, the clock still keeps moving. So, we got to stop complaining and start saying, yes, like it's happening. And you know, and it really multiplies and quadruples and blah blah blah. So, this is what I was doing before the Bitcoin standard came into my life.”

  Paco·Why 42 Countries Can’t Ignore Bitcoin Anymore — The Truth He Revealed·at 7:26