Here's what happened when Strategy ran the numbers on their massive Bitcoin pile: they quietly showed the market how far
$BTC would have to collapse before one of their preferreds even looks fully covered.
Most people jump into
$MSTR and names like
$STRC because they want leveraged Bitcoin exposure without thinking through the actual crash scenarios. That's how you end up stuck when prices really roll over and the structure starts looking a lot less comfortable.
Their model says Bitcoin needs to fall 83 percent from current levels, all the way to $13,136, before STRC reaches a 1x BTC rating. That simply means the value of the coins they hold finally equals the nominal debt and preferred claims sitting on the security. It is not an official credit rating from any agency, just their own internal math. They also flagged $1,519 for STRF, which would be a near-total wipeout.
Compare that to 2022, when Bitcoin dropped roughly 77 percent from the highs and still left plenty of overleveraged players underwater. Strategy's stack would have kept a real cushion even through that mess, unlike some of the companies that blew up last cycle trying the same treasury game with far less discipline.
Where do you think this goes from here if we actually start testing those kinds of levels?
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