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Bitcoin’s "iPhone Moment" is Here w/ Strive Chief Officers | BFC Show Ep. 32

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Apr 5, 2026
Matt Cole, Strive co-founder who led the move to a Bitcoin treasury. Jeff Walton, institutional product designer focused on digital credit and risk modeling. Ben Workman, strategist on balance sheets and AI disruption game theory. They discuss Bitcoin’s iPhone moment, using digital credit for retirement and institutional adoption infrastructure. They explore AI-driven turnover in the S&P 500 and why corporate balance sheets need new defenses.
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Strive's Shift To Bitcoin And Digital Credit

  • Strive reframed its mission from anti-ESG activism to solving the retirement crisis using Bitcoin and digital credit as core tools.
  • Matt Cole calls this the "iPhone moment" for digital credit, forecasting multi‑hundred billion to multi‑trillion dollar opportunity driven by yield arbitrage.
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Stress Test Dividend Plans Against Worst Case

  • Model worst‑case scenarios where you must sell Bitcoin to fund dividends and stress test with Monte Carlo simulations before promising yields.
  • Strive modeled hundreds of scenarios and found failures extremely rare, supporting their 12.5% dividend strategy.
INSIGHT

Two Core Treasury Product Paths

  • Bitcoin treasuries enable a spectrum of products: amplified equity for volatility seekers and digital credit for income seekers.
  • The credit product converts Bitcoin's upside into predictable income, addressing retirees' need for higher fixed returns.
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