Bitcoin bleed and tech's AI pivot — short Strategy (MSTR) as it bleeds out
A massive company that holds billions in bitcoin has been plunging for a year. At the same time, big tech is pivoting hard to monetize AI, and Wall Street is actively shifting its crypto investments away from basic tokens into decentralized finance platforms. The old 'crypto proxy' trade is dead.
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Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy), a company whose stock is entirely dependent on the price of bitcoin, has been in a massive, nearly year-long slump, showing extreme weakness even as crypto markets attempt to stabilize. Simultaneously, we are seeing a major structural rotation in tech and crypto. Meta just surged 8% by finding a way to directly monetize AI, showing investors now demand actual revenue, not just hype. Furthermore, BlackRock just integrated with Ethena for DeFi yields, showing that institutional money is getting more sophisticated and is moving away from simply holding spot bitcoin. With the Bloomberg segment highlighting that rate fears might be overpriced, any broad market relief rally is likely to rotate capital away from beleaguered, leveraged crypto proxies like Strategy and into productive AI and DeFi assets, leaving MSTR behind.
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- Meta pops 8% as company makes cloud push to sell excess AI compute power capacity — CNBC
- Overpricing Fed Rate Hikes Amid Potential Cuts — Bloomberg
- Strategy heads for eleventh losing month in twelve as bitcoin weakness continues — CoinDesk
- BlackRock pushes deeper into DeFi with Ethena integration, sending ENA up 8% — CoinDesk