True North — Navigating the New Financial Frontier
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EP 76 Why Strategy's Balance Sheet Became a Blackhole
The crew takes apart the capital structure behind Strategy’s expanding Bitcoin balance sheet: the week’s common-stock issuance, Bitcoin sale, STRC repurchase, cash-reserve build, and the argument that a liquid, divisible BTC reserve changes how investors should think about funding preferred dividends. From there, the conversation moves through net leverage, refinancing optionality, the emerging digital credit stack, and the contrast between financing appreciating Bitcoin collateral and financing rapidly depreciating GPU infrastructure. The group also examines the potential implications of MSCI’s proposed screening methodology for digital-asset treasury companies, discusses preferred-share capital allocation across STRC, STRF, STRK, and STRD, and closes with a candid conversation about BIP 110, a possible fork, market process, and the work required to bring longer-duration institutional capital into Bitcoin-backed credit. This episode is for informational and educational purposes only and is not investment, tax, or legal advice.
Randomness & Probability 101
The crew breaks down the Coldcard security failure and the custody wake-up call it created across Bitcoin, examining compromised seed entropy, emergency wallet migrations, exposed public keys, multisig setups, hardware-wallet trust, and the privacy consequences of consolidating funds through KYC platforms. They then turn to MSTR and Strategy’s updated balance sheet, including its Bitcoin sale, growing USD reserve, convertible debt, dividend coverage, STRC repurchases, and the evolving credit quality of digital credit. From there, they introduce True North’s new seed-phrase tools to visualize SHA-256, brute-force probabilities, key-space scale, and each investor’s relative “slice” of Bitcoin before closing with corporate custody, sovereignty, reinsurance opportunities, and the BIP-110 game theory unfolding between miners and nodes.
Aug 5, 2026Bitcoin for Business
An evening for business owners, operators, and investors who want to understand how money actually works — and what Bitcoin and digital credit mean for the decade ahead. Hosted by Jeff Walton, CRO of Strive.
Digital Credit Research Hub
The Definitive Guide to Digital Credit
Yield-bearing preferred securities with indirect Bitcoin exposure, offering 8.00%–13.00% stated yields. Six instruments, two issuers, one comprehensive research hub. Instrument profiles, risk analysis, comparison frameworks, and primary-source data — updated July 2026.
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Live market data, yields, capital structure, and volatility across all six instruments.
Markets & Instruments
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What Is Digital Credit?
The definition, mechanics, and how it differs from crypto lending.
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