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The Connect · Friday June 19
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- BTC slips below $64,000 post-Fed. Hawkish Warsh debut sets the tape against Bitcoin: rates held but dots move to a hike before year-end. Spot below $64K, intraday low $63,690; $82.2M ETF net outflow Wednesday. The bearer-asset counter-tape to the SpaceX trillionaire print. Cascaded from banner.
- CME files lawsuit against CFTC over Bitcoin perpetual futures approval. CEO Terry Duffy argues perps are legally swaps under Dodd-Frank, not futures. CFTC calls the challenge “frivolous.” The derivatives plumbing fight is now in federal court. Cascaded from banner.
- Strategy 846,842 BTC overtakes BlackRock IBIT 811,291 BTC. A corporate treasury now holds more Bitcoin than the world’s largest spot ETF. The crossover Saylor mapped four years ago, validated in coin count. Cascaded from banner.
- Alden + Lepard, in real time: Warsh's first press conference “rather hawkish.” Both confirmed the play-side of “rates unchanged.” Two T2.5 macro voices independently called it within 30 minutes. The Fundamentalist read on the day Mempolitics shipped the playbook. Cascaded from banner.
- Begich introduces Strategic Bitcoin Reserve bill: “The dollar may not be the reserve forever — could be a digital asset.” Sound money politics is no longer a meme. It’s legislation in committee. Cascaded from banner.
- Livingston: “AI exposes how insane it is that civilization uses equity claims as savings accounts.” Bitcoin’s role as neutral, scarce money has never been more clear. The Capitalist read on the convergence. Cascaded from banner.
- Bhutan moves $34.5M of BTC to Binance. Sovereign treasury holdings now under 1,750 BTC per Arkham. A sovereign Bitcoin treasury rotating in real time — sell strength, rebuild weakness. Cascaded from banner.
- House + Senate strike deal: federal CBDC ban through 2030. The state just legislatively foreclosed surveillance money. Bitcoin remains the only digital monetary rail. Cascaded from banner.
- Saylor: “I have a plane. I can pull the stick back here. This is 30% Bitcoin yield, but it's taking on more risk. And the plane then stalls. Or I can put the nose down and say, ‘What I want is 15% Bitcoin yield.’” The flight-stick analogy for dialing BPS up or down on the Strategy stack.
- Saylor: "Bitcoin Capitalism — in 2 minutes." Saylor reframes the STRC/digital-credit playbook as doctrine.
- BTC + crypto stocks surge as Iran ceasefire + Strategy's $100M buy collide with Fed week. Perfect timing or signal Saylor's desk doesn't see geopolitics as a primary input.
- Schiff: "$STRC is trading at 93.5. That means investors who paid $100 are already down 6.5%." Empirical counter-voice to Saylor's STRC-as-retiree-safety frame, posted within 60 seconds of Saylor's banner.
- Kratter (BigpictureBTC repost): "the 8th yield hike in less than a year will surely fix it. Couldn't possibly be the funding mechanism." $STRC. Third independent STRC critique in a six-hour window.
- Lepard: "I am betting the 77% are wrong and we will see the first clue on that tomorrow at 2:30. Right, Kevin?" The one Warsh-adjacent X post of the day — pairs with the Bloomberg Warsh banner.
- Mallers at BTC Prague: "Bitcoin below $63K reflects a global financial scene that has run out of liquidity." Maximalist faction reframes the dip.
- Five US screwworm cases since June 3. Texas mass-production fly facility doesn't open until Nov 2027. Beef at record $9.64/lb. Supply-side inflation locked in despite Hormuz reopen.
- Global corn ending stocks at lowest since 2013/14. US wheat down 424M bushels YoY. The grain story doesn't end with Iran.
- Fed Funds futures price an 80% chance of a hike by year-end. Inflation 4.2% — double the Fed's target. Warsh's hawkish history meets political pressure.
- Civil war tracker: mNAV multiple, Strategy stack, cost basis, net leverage — updated post-buy.
- MSTR trading ~18% below BTC-per-share at $114 vs $139.40 NAV. mNAV ~0.82×. The Maximalist case (Parker Lewis, Quinn Thompson, Mallers) proving itself out empirically.
- Bitcoin mining production cost $84,300 vs spot $63,780. Difficulty set to drop 9.55% next adjustment. Hormuz reopening should ease miner margins by Q3.
- Alden: "No major capitulation coming — we haven't hit euphoric levels in this cycle." Fundamentalist counter to the rotation panic.
- Yen strengthens to 160.22 vs USD on BoJ hike. Nikkei +0.46% post-decision. Carry-trade math shifts ahead of Warsh.
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