News Block: Bitcoin Wins the War Trade, Private Credit Collapses, Strategy's STRC Just Became the Most Liquid Preferred Stock on the Market
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In this week's episode of the Coin Stories News Block powered exclusively by Ledn, we cover these major headlines related to Bitcoin, macroeconomics, and global finance:
- Bitcoin currently outperforms gold, S&P 500 amid Iran War
- Tremors in private credit sector
- Strategy deploys billions into Bitcoin with STRC - what's happening?
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References mentioned in the episode:
- CoinDesk: BTC Sold Off First When the U.S.-Iran War Began. Two Weeks Later, It's Outperforming Nearly Everything
- CoinDesk: BTC Set for Best Week Since Sep. as Correlation with Tech Stocks Weakens
- River: BTC Has Outperformed Stocks & Gold in Every Geopolitical Crisis Since 2020
- Fortune: Bitcoin Outperforms Gold and Stocks Since Beginning of Iran Conflict
- Stanley Druckenmiller's Recent Comments on Bitcoin as a Store of Value
- Joe Consorti's Tweet on Bitcoin Outperformance Since Iran Strikes
- Strategy: Strategy Acquires 17,994 BTC and Now Holds 738,731 BTC
- CoinDesk: Strategy's STRC Preferred Series Gets $50 Million Investment from Strive OranjeBTC's Tweet Explaining it
- Decision to Allocate to Stretch (STRC)
- CoinDesk: The Math Behind Strategy's Path to 1 Million Bitcoin by the End of 2026 STRC Live: Real-Time STRC Tradin
- Data and Bitcoin Purchase Estimates
- Strategy's Dashboard with Information Concerning STRC
- Phong Le's Tweet on STRC Trading Volume and Price Stability
- Phong Le's Tweet on STRC Reaching Escape Velocity
- Michael Saylor's Tweet on STRC Being the Most Liquid Preferred Equity
- Michael Saylor's Tweet Hinting at Another Big Bitcoin Purchase
- Strategy's Tweet Comparing Digital Credit and Private Credit
- Joe Consorti's Tweet on Strategy's Estimated BTC Purchases Through STRC
- Fortune: The $265B Private Credit Meltdown — How Wall Street's Hottest Investment Craze Turned Into a Panic
- Bloomberg: Morgan Stanley Limits Redemptions on Private Credit Fund
- Bloomberg: Private Credit Fears, War Darken Outlook for U.S. Financial Stocks Bloomberg: JPMorgan Restricts Privat
- Credit Lending After Markdowns
- CNBC: JPMorgan Reins in Lending to Private Credit Firms After Marking Down Software Loans
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