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Good idea:

  • you get bitcoin exposure at par (i.e., you're not paying a premium so it's equivalent, financially speaking, to buying bitcoin).
  • you get whatever upside you think Saylor can eke out over time (read: amplification, future banking, leverage etc)

bad idea:

  • it's financialization of bitcoin rather than bitcoinization of the world (= against cypherpunk ethos)
  • it's not self-custody: several layers of permission (brokerage -> Strategy, Strategy -> bitcoin)
  • Saylor's amplification/leverage play might not work out (or he/Coinbase gets hacked, or Trump nationalizes his stack etc, etc)

In a nutshell, that's basically the Dummies summary of my long read (#1081555)