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Allard Peng says Digital Credit investors are being overcompensated for the risk they’re taking right now. @stonychambers is back on The Income Show with @IIICapital to break down what’s holding STRC below par, where digital credit goes next, and why he’s still very bullish on Bitcoin. Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 1:21 - Why STRC Isn’t at Par 4:09 - Is Leverage Back? 7:14 - Buybacks vs. Dividends 11:05 - Too Many Buybacks? 15:55 - When Yield Is Too High 18:51 - The Future of Digital Credit 21:29 - Digital Money and Digital Yield 30:37 - Fixed vs. Variable 40:13 - Measuring Digital Credit Risk 46:02 - Bitcoin Outlook 51:09 - Closing Thoughts $BTC $MSTR $STRC $ASST $SATA $SATS
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Corporate Credit issued against crypto since August 2020. Includes: 1. Debt issued 2. Preferred Issued 3. Hybrid (convertible bonds) issued 4. Retired debt and preferred equity (buybacks / refi's) Credit is building on Bitcoin.
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135 Digital Credit dividends have come due since March 2025. 135 have been paid. STRK: 7/7 STRF: 6/6 STRD: 5/5 STRE: 4/4 STRC: 18/18 SATA: 95/95 SATS: first payment Nov 9 Quarterly. Monthly. Semi-monthly. Every business day. Zero missed.
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Digital Credit is Bitcoin, refined. 2026 YTD annualized volatility: ASST + MSTR: 95% Bitcoin: 45% SATA + STRC: 24% Same raw material. Structured finance sends the volatility to the common equity and strips it out of Digital Credit:
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Digital Credit vs. Traditional Income: Effective Yield
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No True North this week. We'll be back next week.
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Two $BTC treasury companies can trade at different multiples for years. @GrainofSaltSF uses $TSLA and $GOOG as the analogy for Strive $ASST and Strategy $MSTR. Tesla’s premium has persisted through both multiple expansion and compression. “You guys will run two different multiples in the future... and that’s totally fine.”
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Digital Credit traded $1.04 billion this week. STRC: $650M SATA: $322M STRD: $27M STRF: $23M STRK: $20M STRC and SATA alone did $972M, or 93% of all the trading. Bitcoin fell 2.4% and buyers still lined up for Digital Credit:
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Rejecting Bitcoin for its volatility while buying $TSLA or $NVDA is a strange combination. @ts_hodl says some investors use volatility to dismiss $BTC even while owning stocks that have been more volatile in recent years. “They just don’t like Bitcoin because they don’t understand it.”
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10 years of compounding. Bitcoin: 63.3% CAGR S&P 500: 13.6% CAGR Silver: 13.2% CAGR Gold: 12.8% CAGR $10k in Bitcoin → $1.35M $10k in the rest → ~$35k One of these is not like the others. bitcoin:native
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Bitcoin is down 6.6% YTD. Every Digital Credit instrument is up. SATA +13.8% STRC +9.4% STRF +9.4% STRD +5.4% STRK +3.3% Bitcoin underneath with the volatility stripped. And every dividend paid.
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Digital Credit is going global. @AdamBLiv chats with @asjwebley on Bitcoin, Digital Credit, amplification, and MORE, Smarter Web Company's Preferred Shares. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:10 Why Smarter Web Chose Preferred Equity 04:55 Digital Credit Origins 06:45 How MORE Works 10:39 Investor Protections and Debt 12:38 Total Return vs. Bitcoin Per Share 15:35 Amplification and the 35% Cap 20:27 When to Add Amplification 27:40 Reflexivity and mNAV 31:19 Letting the Machine Work 36:30 Building Trust in Digital Credit 38:01 MORE Launch and FTSE 250 Goal 40:48 Final Thoughts
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Amplification gets harder to increase as it rises. @PunterJeff explains why moving from 50% to 75% amplification requires significantly more capital than it might seem. “Amplification scales hyperbolically.”
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Bitcoin volatility does not equal Bitcoin risk. Since Jan 1, 2020, Bitcoin has: - Compounded at 43.4% a year (an 11.4x return) - Swung with 61% annualized volatility - Fallen 77% peak to trough in 2021–22, and 53% from its all-time high Now look at the 200-week moving average: - Up 23.6% over the last 12 months - Up 46.2% a year since 2020 ($5,059 to $66,512) - Down weeks since 2020: zero. 354 straight weekly gains. Price is the noise. The 200-week is the signal:
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Trey Sellers says he borrowed against his house at 5% to collect 10% on $STRC. Now it pays 12%. @ts_hodl joins @IIICapital on The Income Show to discuss how Bitcoin changes the FIRE math, why an 8% withdrawal rate may be conservative, his HELOC carry trade into STRC, why you should never pay off your mortgage early, whether digital credit is suppressing Bitcoin's price, and why $83K Bitcoin is bullish. 0:00 - Intro 1:19 - Investing Before Bitcoin & FIRE Method 8:04 - Swapping Index Funds for Bitcoin 10:02 - Is the FIRE Movement Growing? 13:04 - How Bitcoin Changes the FIRE Math 16:32 - The Case for an 8% Withdrawal Rate 21:18 - Growth vs. Income Investing 24:21 - The Tax Advantage of Digital Credit 25:44 - Volatility Is Why People Buy Bitcoin 29:14 - Why Starting Early Matters 30:25 - Borrowing Against His Home to Buy STRC 34:46 - Why You Should Keep Your Mortgage 39:25 - Why He Trusted Strategy to Pay the Dividend 45:17 - Is Digital Credit Suppressing Bitcoin's Price? 49:44 - Why $83K Bitcoin Is Bullish 52:10 - Closing Thoughts $BTC $MSTR $ASST $STRC $SATA
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