April 18, 2025 • 19 mins
This one strategy… beat 99% of Wall Street investors, institutions, and hedge funds. Not just in one year—but over the last five. It’s now being rapidly adopted by massive public companies to turn themselves around… and outperform the rest of the market. And no—it wasn’t cooked up in some Wall Street boardroom. It’s been hiding in plain sight this whole time. While the so-called ‘smartest money managers’ were busy diversifying, hedging, and fee-charging their way to mediocrity… this one strategy helped companies obliterate their returns. And now? The rest of Wall Street is scrambling to copy it. Companies on the brink of collapse are suddenly thriving—because they made one move. But here’s the twist… You don’t need to be a billionaire CEO or run a fund to use it. You can start using this strategy today.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This one strategy beat ninety nine percent of Wall Street investors, institutions,
and hedge funds, not just in one.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Year, but over the last five.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
It's now being rapidly adopted by massive public companies to
turn themselves around and outperform the rest of the market.
And no, it wasn't cooked up in some Wall Street boardroom.
It's been hiding in plain sight this whole time. Now,
while the so called smartest money managers were busy diversifying
and hedging and fee charging their way to mediocrity, this
(00:29):
one strategy helped companies obliterate their returns, and now the
rest of Wall Street is scrambling to copy it. Companies
on the brink of collapse are suddenly thriving because they
made this one move. But here's here's the twist. You
don't need to be a billionaire a CEO to run
a fund to use it. You can start using this
strategy right now today, no real quick.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I'm Mark Moss.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
I'm built and exited multiple tech companies, invested through boom
and bus cycles, and today I'm a partner at a
leading bitcoin venture capital fund, an advisor to multiple public
tech companies. I write the quantum Wave Investment Report where
I help investors stay ahead of the biggest shifts in
tech and money, and I make these videos to share
these strategies that we're using so you can profit as
the rest of the world is trying to catch up. Now,
(01:14):
in this video, I'm going to show you exactly what
the strategy is, how it saved companies like micro Strategy
and now Game Stop, and how you can apply it
to your own portfolio to beat the market and even
the pros without ever handing your money to Wall Street again.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
So let's go all right, So we're jumping right in
and we're going to show you how.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
To obliterate Wall Street's returns so you never have to
give Wall Street your money again, and you can outperform
them with just.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
A very few simple moves.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
But before we do that, why would you never want
to give Wall Street your money again? Well, that's Wall
Street's dirty little secret, and the secret is that they
don't really make you any money when you think about
the long term perspective and not beating the rate of
what the government tells us inflation is but a real
rate of debasement about ten to twelve percent. So if
(02:03):
we look at this we can see the average hedge fund.
These are the guys making the big money. The average
hedge fund on Wall Street doesn't make as much money
as you think they do. We can see the net
returns for hedge funds have decreased from eighteen percent per year.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Eighteen percent is not bad.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
That is more than the ten to twelve percent of
monetary debasement we've been seeing. Eighteen percent not bad. However,
they decreased from that in the nineties to eight percent
during this last decade. So over the last decade, we're
not looking at our returns in a month or even
a year, Let's look at multiple years in the last decade.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
We're talking eight percent.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Now, that's a problem, especially when you think about the
fees that are charged, the taxes that are charged, and
if we look at it comparative to other options that
you have, like, for example, the S and P five
hundred you could just buy the index. You can see
that the Barclay's Hedge Fund index right here shows minimal
returns compared to the returns you could have just for
(03:02):
buying the S and P five hundred index.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Now, of course there's ways to beat that.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
But for right now, just for comparison's sake, Wall Street,
their institutions, their four oh one k's, their mutual funds,
they're hedge funds. They're all looking like this. That's the
dirty little secret. Now on top of that, your advisor
for your mutual fund, your four O one k whatever,
or your financial advisory're telling you to diversify, diversified, diversify,
(03:28):
or what I call diversify. And when we look at this,
part of the reason why is because we've have this
passive investing that's sort of taken over Wall Street. What
is passive investing? That means that you know, every two
weeks to get your paycheck, a little bit codes out
and goes into your mutual, mutual fund, your four A
one K account, and that is passively being invested. And
what happens is it invests through the index like the
(03:48):
S and P five hundred index of the Nasdaq index,
and it.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Goes to the companies in that index.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
But the problem is that we have the mag seven,
the top seven stocks, and you can see their performance
has gone up while the of the S and P
five hundred has stayed about flat. This chart is for
about the first half of last year, and we can
see if you take out the MAG seven, you're about
one point two five percent, but the MAG seven did
thirty five percent. And so when you look at that
(04:15):
and you understand what's going on, and then, like I said,
you add in the fees that they charge you, and
then you add in the taxes that you're going to
have to pay, the returns don't look so good. But
this is also why if you're a publicly traded company
and not in the MAG seven, it's very difficult to
grow because the passive funds are driving the MAG seven
(04:35):
up because of the waiting in the index, and all
the other public companies are falling behind. So let's take
a look at couple of the public companies what they're
doing to get ahead, and then we'll figure out how
you and I can also.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Use this to get ahead. Okay, so we'll.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Talk about Micro Strategy, a company that of course you
know about by now.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
I talk about it.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Quite often, and they change the game. As a matter
of fact, what we're saying is they found the cheat code.
The cheat code too, how do we beat Wall Street
in a game that's fixed because of the passive investing
in the way the mag Stevens work, and so we
basically the story of micro Strategy is it was an
old stagnant company. When I say is old stagnant, they're
a software company. They weren't growing. They're competing against the
(05:15):
likes of Microsoft, and so it's very difficult to grow
in that market. And so they had a good customer base,
they had good cash loads, but they weren't growing. But
they had about five hundred million dollars of cash. Remember
that when we talk about why that's important.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
So we had a big stockpile of cash.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Micro Sailor, the CEO of micro Strategy, thought, shoot, what
are we going to do? We could reinvest it to
try to grow the company more, but that's probably not
going to work because of our competition. As long as
we hold it in dollars, it's losing value.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
So where should we put it.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
All the options that we have grow the company, buy bonds, treasuries,
et cetera. And he decided to pivot and said, we
looked at bitcoin and we think adopting a bitcoin strategy
will be the way for us to have a cheat
code and win over Wall Street.
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They did, they pivoted and since that time, since that time,
that was in twenty twenty, Michael Saylor and micro Strategy
announced that they have now hold now over five hundred
thousand Bitcoin that they bought with cash they bought through
raising debt instruments. I've broken this down before and not
gonna go deep into that. The recent five hundred and
eighty four million dollars of purchases and so now they
(07:11):
have over five hundred thousand bitcoin. Now, micro Strategy has
now changed its name to Strategy, and we're gonna talk
more about.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
That in a second.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
But we can see here since they adopted this cheat code,
this bitcoin strategy in twenty twenty, you can see their
performance is up two three hundred and fifty nine percent
compared to in Vidia. Everyone's Darling is only up nine
hundred and fifty percent. Not only it's massive nine hundred
fety percent. Bitcoin by itself amazing six hundred and twenty
(07:40):
three percent. So Nvidia has out outpaced Bitcoin, but Michael Saylor,
Mike Strategies outpiece pays that Tesla one hundred and sixty
three percent, Meta, Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Gold. So you
can see over this period since they've adopted the strategy,
the cheat code strategy, they've outperformed everything else. And so
(08:01):
now as I said, they have changed their name from
micro Strategy to Strategy, we can see that Michael Saylor's
two hundred trillion dollar bitcoin strategy is now working with
the government.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
We've done videos on that.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
If you want more videos breaking down the US government
and how they're using bitcoin to leave me a common
down below. But The important part that we're going to
talk about in this video is the strategy because other
people are adopting it and we can too. But basically,
now they have the strategy and they're showing the strategy
to other corporations, to the government. Michael Saylor's in DC
meet with the government, but also corporations. As a matter
(08:35):
of fact, they have a big meeting coming up strategy
for corporations, where they're showing them how to do the
same thing, how they can abliterate Wall Street, how they
can obliterate the returns of any other publicly traded company. Okay, now,
since they've done that, of course, in a competitive landscape,
it's no surprise that other companies want to do the
same thing. That's what's happening is what we call game theory, right,
(08:58):
is if other people get in ahead to do the
same things to beat them and so adopting the game
game theory pun intended. We have the next company called
game Stop. Now you've probably heard about game Stop stock GM.
It's kind of like a meme stock. It was Roaring
Kitty doing the trades against them. We saw it go
up in those Reddit chat rooms and so forth, and
(09:19):
game Stop basically has a dying business similar to what
micro Strategy was. The business isn't really doing good. The
stock is pumped because of the you know, meme stock
and what was happening in the message boards and whatnot,
but it's sort of a dying retail business. It's a
brick and mortar business. It's going away, but they have
a lot of cash. Remember that, we're going to come
back to that. So, just like micro Strategy, sort of
(09:41):
a stalled out, failing business but a big stock pile
of cash.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
So did what should they do?
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Well, we need to protect the amount of cash that
we have and think of a way to get our
stock to grow again.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Even though our business is sort of dying.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
We don't want to reinvest into a dying business like
brick and mortar retail. And so enter the latest game
theory adoption from the company called game Stop. They're raising
one point three billion dollars via convertible debt to what
to buy bitcoin. That is the strategy. That's the strategy. Certainly,
take some of that cash and buy bitcoin. Micro Strategy
(10:14):
did that, But then the next levels are, how do
we lever a debt to buy even more? And so
that's exactly what they announced, one point three billion dollars
for bitcoin. Now, lots and lots of news around this.
Some people are saying, well, shoot as much cash as
they have, they could send the game Stop stock up
(10:35):
to one hundred dollars and they could turn this into
a thirteen billion dollar hedge fund. Because they have so
much cash, they're dwarfing where micro strategy was, and so
they could take the strategy.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
In and multiply way way faster if they did that.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Now, at the time of this recording, game stock went
up and then the stock came back down. But again,
don't look at your portfolio in days or weeks or months,
think a little bit longer term. What this means Now,
why was game Stop an ideal fit for this to
do this? And how would other people like you and
I think about the strategy moving forward? Well, number one,
they were a natural fit because they had this unique
(11:11):
capital structure, right, which basically meant their investor base and
their operational profile sort of allowed them. What do I
mean by that, Well, Number one, they're capital structure is
that they had high liquidity. Again, they were sitting on
a large amount of cash, a melting ice cube. Four
point seven eight billion dollars of cash that was losing
value every single day. They had that in cash and
(11:32):
cash equivalents. Okay, so their balance sheet was like, what
do we do with this money? How do we retain them?
But then also they had this resilient investor base. You see,
you have to get the investors, the equity owners to
go along with this. Now, a lot of companies they're old, nostodgy,
they're sort of in their main business.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
They don't want to go into something like bitcoin.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
But with game Stop, most of these people are already
know it's a failing business. They're already in games, they're
already knowing that it's a meme stock, and they're just
kind of like whatver, So they go along with it. Right,
they've already demonstrated long term conviction and willingness to support
unorthodox but calculated strategies. That's how they've got their stock
back up now. Also because of game stops embrace of
(12:14):
this decentralized technology, it aligns with their identity as this outlier. Right,
they're not like the rest of Wall Street. They're different.
So adopting bitcoin sort of fits into that. Now, this
worked for game Stop It doesn't mean that it's a
fit for every single public company. These are the reasons
why I worked for game Stop.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
All right. Now, the stock did pop, but like I said,
way back down.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
But really, if we think about it, back to micro strategy,
back to game Stop, they did it to survive. They
were stalled out or failing businesses with large amounts of cash,
and what do we do to stay alive?
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Well, let's buy bitcoin.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Now, think about that in your own portfolio. And how
are your own assets going, your own investments going towards
your ultimate goal of retirement one day? Are you barely
making it like GameStop and micro strategy and do you
need to do something to adopt the new strategy to
get ahead? Okay, now, because of that, because of the
President's been said, because of micro strategy or now strategy
(13:12):
outpacing everybody else, the game theory says, more people want
to do it. But even more than that, we can
expect more companies to do this because the.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Government changed a rule. Now we've been.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Talking about this for a while, talked about multiple times,
and this is an accounting rule and that it gave
new clarity. All right, So this is the way that
they can hold it. This happened just in late twenty
twenty four, So this just happened last quarter. And now
we're you know, these are big corporations. It takes time,
but we're now starting to see them wanting to use
these new rule changes to move into something like this. Now,
(13:44):
what is this rule change we're talking about Again, I've
covered it before, but we're talking about under old we'll
be called legacy accounting standards. We call it GAP GAAP
generally accepted accounting principles under that they couldn't do this.
But this barrier was moved in twenty twenty four and
it's the FSAB Financial Accounting Standards.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Board approved new rules.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
That now allows companies public companies to measure bitcoin at
fair market value. Because now they can measure at fair
market value, it allows them to benefit from the profits
or the losses on that. So now companies can reflect
both unrealized gains and unrealized losses in their earnings. They
(14:28):
can report bitcoin more transparently in their financial statements. So
now they can reap the benefits of actually doing this.
Before they couldn't, so why take the risk, But now
they can reap the benefits.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
We'll see more companies doing this.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
This brings bitcoin into compliance, which public companies need to
be in compliance because of all the SEC regulations there,
but for responsible treasury management. Okay, so this is a
big rule, and this is why we've already seen more
companies doing this and why we're going to continue to
see this trend change all right, Now, this isn't just corporations.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
This is for you and I.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
If again, our portfolios have stalled out, if we're not
getting to our goals, if we look like a micro strategy,
or we look like a game stop, we might want
to adopt the cheat.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Code as well.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
So what would we do well, kind of the same thing.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
What's our treasury?
Speaker 1 (15:17):
How much assets do we have and are they performing
and keeping up with the rate of monetaried basement? And
just like Michael Saylor did, what other options do we
have for those assets?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
And how should we think about restructuring? Though?
Speaker 1 (15:29):
So number one, we should certainly be buying and holding
bitcoin long term again, not on a weekly or monthly basis,
think over multiple years like micro strategy does. So we
want to be buying and holding that long term. Now,
like all of your arguments are gone now, right, it's
already faster and cheaper and more private than any other cryptocurrency.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
It's not going to be illegal. US government adopted it.
You have the smartest guys in the world using it.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Like the excuses are sort of gone at this point. Now,
if we really want to get smart like a micro
strategy or like a game, stop and use the strategy,
then we want to think about the asset and how
do we add velocity. You see, most people don't have
a money problem, they have a speed problem. So for example,
over the next twenty years, you might make a million dollars, well,
(16:13):
twenty million or a million dollars or twenty years isn't
that much money. But what if you made twenty What
if you made a million in five years, What if
you made a million in one year, What if you
made a million in one month? And that's the velocity thing.
So how do we add velocity? Well, just like micro strategy,
just like GameStop is doing by adding debts. So for example,
we can borrow against our bitcoin, which is now tax
(16:34):
free liquidity, and we can use that tax free liquidity
for other things to make more money. One, we could
leverage it back into bitcoins, we could lever up our
bitcoin account. Number one, we could use it to invest
into real estate or other types of yield assets. So
I have bitcoin that's you know, warm buffer called a
non productive asset, but I could put it into a
productive asset that yields cash flow. Number two, I could
(16:56):
sell options against it. I could roll options covered car
to produce income for me.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
That way, I could use it to put into a
tax advantaged structure. So for example, I.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Could borrow against a tax free and then I could
buy tax rideoffs put that into real estate or other
capital equipment that now gets me write offs, so I
don't have to pay taxes on the other income that
I make. And so this is how we add it up. Now,
each one of these probably needs its own strategy. If
we're going to break these down into individual videos, leave
me a comment down below which one you want me
(17:30):
to break down, and we'll put that in another video.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Okay, Now, the key here.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Is that we have to start thinking about ourselves like
a company, like a corporation, like a fund. Now, in
the old days, Wilster was too complex. You know, there's
millions of different stock options to choose from, and you know,
radialius is I have to invest in fifteen different things
and I just I'll just give my money to somebody
else to manage for me. But the key is today
is we don't need all that complexity. Today you can
(17:57):
become your own fund. We can be Wall Street. We
can beat all the institutions, We can beat all the
hedge funds by making one or two or three very
simple moves. Now we can have sovereign wealth. We can
control this on our own, not getting taxed and feed
from Wall Street.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
We can have it on our own, and.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
That's much greater than having someone else manage our wealth.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
We can keep total control.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Instead of dealing with the complexity of what Wall Street does,
and we can have real returns where we're actually beating
both inflation and the rate of monetary debasement and every
other asset out there. As a put to just dealing
with the Wall Street reputation. Really, today you don't need
to hand your money to Wall Street because you can
(18:45):
be the fund now using the strategy. It's so simple,
anyone can do it. Let me know what you think
about this. Leave me a comment down below if you
want to know more about why bitcoin right now and
the other assets that are beating it. You might want
to watch this video right here.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
And that's what I got, all right to your success.
I'm out.
This one strategy beat ninety nine percent of Wall Street investors, institutions,
and hedge funds, not just in one.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Year, but over the last five.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
It's now being rapidly adopted by massive public companies to
turn themselves around and outperform the rest of the market.
And no, it wasn't cooked up in some Wall Street boardroom.
It's been hiding in plain sight this whole time. Now,
while the so called smartest money managers were busy diversifying
and hedging and fee charging their way to mediocrity, this
(00:29):
one strategy helped companies obliterate their returns, and now the
rest of Wall Street is scrambling to copy it. Companies
on the brink of collapse are suddenly thriving because they
made this one move. But here's here's the twist. You
don't need to be a billionaire a CEO to run
a fund to use it. You can start using this
strategy right now today, no real quick.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I'm Mark Moss.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
I'm built and exited multiple tech companies, invested through boom
and bus cycles, and today I'm a partner at a
leading bitcoin venture capital fund, an advisor to multiple public
tech companies. I write the quantum Wave Investment Report where
I help investors stay ahead of the biggest shifts in
tech and money, and I make these videos to share
these strategies that we're using so you can profit as
the rest of the world is trying to catch up. Now,
(01:14):
in this video, I'm going to show you exactly what
the strategy is, how it saved companies like micro Strategy
and now Game Stop, and how you can apply it
to your own portfolio to beat the market and even
the pros without ever handing your money to Wall Street again.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
So let's go all right, So we're jumping right in
and we're going to show you how.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
To obliterate Wall Street's returns so you never have to
give Wall Street your money again, and you can outperform
them with just.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
A very few simple moves.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
But before we do that, why would you never want
to give Wall Street your money again? Well, that's Wall
Street's dirty little secret, and the secret is that they
don't really make you any money when you think about
the long term perspective and not beating the rate of
what the government tells us inflation is but a real
rate of debasement about ten to twelve percent. So if
(02:03):
we look at this we can see the average hedge fund.
These are the guys making the big money. The average
hedge fund on Wall Street doesn't make as much money
as you think they do. We can see the net
returns for hedge funds have decreased from eighteen percent per year.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Eighteen percent is not bad.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
That is more than the ten to twelve percent of
monetary debasement we've been seeing. Eighteen percent not bad. However,
they decreased from that in the nineties to eight percent
during this last decade. So over the last decade, we're
not looking at our returns in a month or even
a year, Let's look at multiple years in the last decade.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
We're talking eight percent.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Now, that's a problem, especially when you think about the
fees that are charged, the taxes that are charged, and
if we look at it comparative to other options that
you have, like, for example, the S and P five
hundred you could just buy the index. You can see
that the Barclay's Hedge Fund index right here shows minimal
returns compared to the returns you could have just for
(03:02):
buying the S and P five hundred index.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Now, of course there's ways to beat that.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
But for right now, just for comparison's sake, Wall Street,
their institutions, their four oh one k's, their mutual funds,
they're hedge funds. They're all looking like this. That's the
dirty little secret. Now on top of that, your advisor
for your mutual fund, your four O one k whatever,
or your financial advisory're telling you to diversify, diversified, diversify,
(03:28):
or what I call diversify. And when we look at this,
part of the reason why is because we've have this
passive investing that's sort of taken over Wall Street. What
is passive investing? That means that you know, every two
weeks to get your paycheck, a little bit codes out
and goes into your mutual, mutual fund, your four A
one K account, and that is passively being invested. And
what happens is it invests through the index like the
(03:48):
S and P five hundred index of the Nasdaq index,
and it.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Goes to the companies in that index.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
But the problem is that we have the mag seven,
the top seven stocks, and you can see their performance
has gone up while the of the S and P
five hundred has stayed about flat. This chart is for
about the first half of last year, and we can
see if you take out the MAG seven, you're about
one point two five percent, but the MAG seven did
thirty five percent. And so when you look at that
(04:15):
and you understand what's going on, and then, like I said,
you add in the fees that they charge you, and
then you add in the taxes that you're going to
have to pay, the returns don't look so good. But
this is also why if you're a publicly traded company
and not in the MAG seven, it's very difficult to
grow because the passive funds are driving the MAG seven
(04:35):
up because of the waiting in the index, and all
the other public companies are falling behind. So let's take
a look at couple of the public companies what they're
doing to get ahead, and then we'll figure out how
you and I can also.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Use this to get ahead. Okay, so we'll.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Talk about Micro Strategy, a company that of course you
know about by now.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
I talk about it.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Quite often, and they change the game. As a matter
of fact, what we're saying is they found the cheat code.
The cheat code too, how do we beat Wall Street
in a game that's fixed because of the passive investing
in the way the mag Stevens work, and so we
basically the story of micro Strategy is it was an
old stagnant company. When I say is old stagnant, they're
a software company. They weren't growing. They're competing against the
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likes of Microsoft, and so it's very difficult to grow
in that market. And so they had a good customer base,
they had good cash loads, but they weren't growing. But
they had about five hundred million dollars of cash. Remember
that when we talk about why that's important.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
So we had a big stockpile of cash.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Micro Sailor, the CEO of micro Strategy, thought, shoot, what
are we going to do? We could reinvest it to
try to grow the company more, but that's probably not
going to work because of our competition. As long as
we hold it in dollars, it's losing value.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
So where should we put it.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
All the options that we have grow the company, buy bonds, treasuries,
et cetera. And he decided to pivot and said, we
looked at bitcoin and we think adopting a bitcoin strategy
will be the way for us to have a cheat
code and win over Wall Street.
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They did, they pivoted and since that time, since that time,
that was in twenty twenty, Michael Saylor and micro Strategy
announced that they have now hold now over five hundred
thousand Bitcoin that they bought with cash they bought through
raising debt instruments. I've broken this down before and not
gonna go deep into that. The recent five hundred and
eighty four million dollars of purchases and so now they
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have over five hundred thousand bitcoin. Now, micro Strategy has
now changed its name to Strategy, and we're gonna talk
more about.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
That in a second.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
But we can see here since they adopted this cheat code,
this bitcoin strategy in twenty twenty, you can see their
performance is up two three hundred and fifty nine percent
compared to in Vidia. Everyone's Darling is only up nine
hundred and fifty percent. Not only it's massive nine hundred
fety percent. Bitcoin by itself amazing six hundred and twenty
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three percent. So Nvidia has out outpaced Bitcoin, but Michael Saylor,
Mike Strategies outpiece pays that Tesla one hundred and sixty
three percent, Meta, Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Gold. So you
can see over this period since they've adopted the strategy,
the cheat code strategy, they've outperformed everything else. And so
(08:01):
now as I said, they have changed their name from
micro Strategy to Strategy, we can see that Michael Saylor's
two hundred trillion dollar bitcoin strategy is now working with
the government.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
We've done videos on that.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
If you want more videos breaking down the US government
and how they're using bitcoin to leave me a common
down below. But The important part that we're going to
talk about in this video is the strategy because other
people are adopting it and we can too. But basically,
now they have the strategy and they're showing the strategy
to other corporations, to the government. Michael Saylor's in DC
meet with the government, but also corporations. As a matter
(08:35):
of fact, they have a big meeting coming up strategy
for corporations, where they're showing them how to do the
same thing, how they can abliterate Wall Street, how they
can obliterate the returns of any other publicly traded company. Okay, now,
since they've done that, of course, in a competitive landscape,
it's no surprise that other companies want to do the
same thing. That's what's happening is what we call game theory, right,
(08:58):
is if other people get in ahead to do the
same things to beat them and so adopting the game
game theory pun intended. We have the next company called
game Stop. Now you've probably heard about game Stop stock GM.
It's kind of like a meme stock. It was Roaring
Kitty doing the trades against them. We saw it go
up in those Reddit chat rooms and so forth, and
(09:19):
game Stop basically has a dying business similar to what
micro Strategy was. The business isn't really doing good. The
stock is pumped because of the you know, meme stock
and what was happening in the message boards and whatnot,
but it's sort of a dying retail business. It's a
brick and mortar business. It's going away, but they have
a lot of cash. Remember that, we're going to come
back to that. So, just like micro Strategy, sort of
(09:41):
a stalled out, failing business but a big stock pile
of cash.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
So did what should they do?
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Well, we need to protect the amount of cash that
we have and think of a way to get our
stock to grow again.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Even though our business is sort of dying.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
We don't want to reinvest into a dying business like
brick and mortar retail. And so enter the latest game
theory adoption from the company called game Stop. They're raising
one point three billion dollars via convertible debt to what
to buy bitcoin. That is the strategy. That's the strategy. Certainly,
take some of that cash and buy bitcoin. Micro Strategy
(10:14):
did that, But then the next levels are, how do
we lever a debt to buy even more? And so
that's exactly what they announced, one point three billion dollars
for bitcoin. Now, lots and lots of news around this.
Some people are saying, well, shoot as much cash as
they have, they could send the game Stop stock up
(10:35):
to one hundred dollars and they could turn this into
a thirteen billion dollar hedge fund. Because they have so
much cash, they're dwarfing where micro strategy was, and so
they could take the strategy.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
In and multiply way way faster if they did that.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Now, at the time of this recording, game stock went
up and then the stock came back down. But again,
don't look at your portfolio in days or weeks or months,
think a little bit longer term. What this means Now,
why was game Stop an ideal fit for this to
do this? And how would other people like you and
I think about the strategy moving forward? Well, number one,
they were a natural fit because they had this unique
(11:11):
capital structure, right, which basically meant their investor base and
their operational profile sort of allowed them. What do I
mean by that, Well, Number one, they're capital structure is
that they had high liquidity. Again, they were sitting on
a large amount of cash, a melting ice cube. Four
point seven eight billion dollars of cash that was losing
value every single day. They had that in cash and
(11:32):
cash equivalents. Okay, so their balance sheet was like, what
do we do with this money? How do we retain them?
But then also they had this resilient investor base. You see,
you have to get the investors, the equity owners to
go along with this. Now, a lot of companies they're old, nostodgy,
they're sort of in their main business.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
They don't want to go into something like bitcoin.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
But with game Stop, most of these people are already
know it's a failing business. They're already in games, they're
already knowing that it's a meme stock, and they're just
kind of like whatver, So they go along with it. Right,
they've already demonstrated long term conviction and willingness to support
unorthodox but calculated strategies. That's how they've got their stock
back up now. Also because of game stops embrace of
(12:14):
this decentralized technology, it aligns with their identity as this outlier. Right,
they're not like the rest of Wall Street. They're different.
So adopting bitcoin sort of fits into that. Now, this
worked for game Stop It doesn't mean that it's a
fit for every single public company. These are the reasons
why I worked for game Stop.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
All right. Now, the stock did pop, but like I said,
way back down.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
But really, if we think about it, back to micro strategy,
back to game Stop, they did it to survive. They
were stalled out or failing businesses with large amounts of cash,
and what do we do to stay alive?
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Well, let's buy bitcoin.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Now, think about that in your own portfolio. And how
are your own assets going, your own investments going towards
your ultimate goal of retirement one day? Are you barely
making it like GameStop and micro strategy and do you
need to do something to adopt the new strategy to
get ahead? Okay, now, because of that, because of the
President's been said, because of micro strategy or now strategy
(13:12):
outpacing everybody else, the game theory says, more people want
to do it. But even more than that, we can
expect more companies to do this because the.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Government changed a rule. Now we've been.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Talking about this for a while, talked about multiple times,
and this is an accounting rule and that it gave
new clarity. All right, So this is the way that
they can hold it. This happened just in late twenty
twenty four, So this just happened last quarter. And now
we're you know, these are big corporations. It takes time,
but we're now starting to see them wanting to use
these new rule changes to move into something like this. Now,
(13:44):
what is this rule change we're talking about Again, I've
covered it before, but we're talking about under old we'll
be called legacy accounting standards. We call it GAP GAAP
generally accepted accounting principles under that they couldn't do this.
But this barrier was moved in twenty twenty four and
it's the FSAB Financial Accounting Standards.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Board approved new rules.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
That now allows companies public companies to measure bitcoin at
fair market value. Because now they can measure at fair
market value, it allows them to benefit from the profits
or the losses on that. So now companies can reflect
both unrealized gains and unrealized losses in their earnings. They
(14:28):
can report bitcoin more transparently in their financial statements. So
now they can reap the benefits of actually doing this.
Before they couldn't, so why take the risk, But now
they can reap the benefits.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
We'll see more companies doing this.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
This brings bitcoin into compliance, which public companies need to
be in compliance because of all the SEC regulations there,
but for responsible treasury management. Okay, so this is a
big rule, and this is why we've already seen more
companies doing this and why we're going to continue to
see this trend change all right, Now, this isn't just corporations.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
This is for you and I.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
If again, our portfolios have stalled out, if we're not
getting to our goals, if we look like a micro strategy,
or we look like a game stop, we might want
to adopt the cheat.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Code as well.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
So what would we do well, kind of the same thing.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
What's our treasury?
Speaker 1 (15:17):
How much assets do we have and are they performing
and keeping up with the rate of monetaried basement? And
just like Michael Saylor did, what other options do we
have for those assets?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
And how should we think about restructuring? Though?
Speaker 1 (15:29):
So number one, we should certainly be buying and holding
bitcoin long term again, not on a weekly or monthly basis,
think over multiple years like micro strategy does. So we
want to be buying and holding that long term. Now,
like all of your arguments are gone now, right, it's
already faster and cheaper and more private than any other cryptocurrency.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
It's not going to be illegal. US government adopted it.
You have the smartest guys in the world using it.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Like the excuses are sort of gone at this point. Now,
if we really want to get smart like a micro
strategy or like a game, stop and use the strategy,
then we want to think about the asset and how
do we add velocity. You see, most people don't have
a money problem, they have a speed problem. So for example,
over the next twenty years, you might make a million dollars, well,
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twenty million or a million dollars or twenty years isn't
that much money. But what if you made twenty What
if you made a million in five years, What if
you made a million in one year, What if you
made a million in one month? And that's the velocity thing.
So how do we add velocity? Well, just like micro strategy,
just like GameStop is doing by adding debts. So for example,
we can borrow against our bitcoin, which is now tax
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free liquidity, and we can use that tax free liquidity
for other things to make more money. One, we could
leverage it back into bitcoins, we could lever up our
bitcoin account. Number one, we could use it to invest
into real estate or other types of yield assets. So
I have bitcoin that's you know, warm buffer called a
non productive asset, but I could put it into a
productive asset that yields cash flow. Number two, I could
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sell options against it. I could roll options covered car
to produce income for me.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
That way, I could use it to put into a
tax advantaged structure. So for example, I.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Could borrow against a tax free and then I could
buy tax rideoffs put that into real estate or other
capital equipment that now gets me write offs, so I
don't have to pay taxes on the other income that
I make. And so this is how we add it up. Now,
each one of these probably needs its own strategy. If
we're going to break these down into individual videos, leave
me a comment down below which one you want me
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to break down, and we'll put that in another video.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Okay, Now, the key here.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Is that we have to start thinking about ourselves like
a company, like a corporation, like a fund. Now, in
the old days, Wilster was too complex. You know, there's
millions of different stock options to choose from, and you know,
radialius is I have to invest in fifteen different things
and I just I'll just give my money to somebody
else to manage for me. But the key is today
is we don't need all that complexity. Today you can
(17:57):
become your own fund. We can be Wall Street. We
can beat all the institutions, We can beat all the
hedge funds by making one or two or three very
simple moves. Now we can have sovereign wealth. We can
control this on our own, not getting taxed and feed
from Wall Street.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
We can have it on our own, and.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
That's much greater than having someone else manage our wealth.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
We can keep total control.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Instead of dealing with the complexity of what Wall Street does,
and we can have real returns where we're actually beating
both inflation and the rate of monetary debasement and every
other asset out there. As a put to just dealing
with the Wall Street reputation. Really, today you don't need
to hand your money to Wall Street because you can
(18:45):
be the fund now using the strategy. It's so simple,
anyone can do it. Let me know what you think
about this. Leave me a comment down below if you
want to know more about why bitcoin right now and
the other assets that are beating it. You might want
to watch this video right here.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
And that's what I got, all right to your success.
I'm out.
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