The Biggest Systemic Risk for Bitcoin: A Deduction of MicroStrategy's "Death Spiral"
Bitcoin has recently experienced a significant pullback. If there's a true "life-or-death variable" for BTC, it's almost impossible to ignore MicroStrategy (now Strategy), the world's largest publicly traded company holding Bitcoin.
As of now, the company holds approximately 712,600 BTC, with an average holding price of approximately $76,037.
What MicroStrategy has built over the past few years is essentially a financial flywheel model highly dependent on market sentiment:
Positive Flywheel Logic:
1. Utilizing stock premiums and credit advantages, continuously issuing stocks or bonds to raise funds;
2. Converting all raised funds into Bitcoin, increasing the "BTC content per share";
3. Increased market expectations, rising stock prices, further widening the premium;
4. Continuing to raise funds and buy more Bitcoin, forming a self-reinforcing cycle.
This model is almost perfect in a bull market, but the problem is—once the flywheel reverses, structural risks are amplified exponentially.
When the flywheel reverses: How does the death spiral unfold?
1️⃣ Collapsed Expectations
When BTC consistently falls below the overall cost range of $76,000, the market begins to reassess MicroStrategy's balance sheet and solvency.
The stock price premium will rapidly narrow, and in extreme cases, it may even transform from a "premium asset" into a "discounted instrument."
2️⃣ Frozen Funding Channels
A falling stock price means—
• Issuing new shares is no longer "cost-effective";
• In a high-interest-rate environment, the cost and risk of continuing to issue bonds increase sharply;
Once low-cost financing becomes unavailable, MicroStrategy's "buying engine" will be forced to shut down, and the flywheel logic will directly fail.
3️⃣ Uncontrolled Liquidation Expectations
The real systemic risk lies here.
Even selling just 1% of its Bitcoin holdings will be interpreted by the market as "whales starting to waver."
The likely outcome is:
• Institutional investors rushing to sell
• Leveraged liquidation
• Panic selling by retail investors
From a collapse in expectations, it quickly evolves into a liquidity crisis.
4️⃣ Accelerated Negative Feedback
MicroStrategy's massive size, initially a "confidence anchor" in bull markets, becomes a Damocles' sword hanging over the market in bear markets.
Forced selling of its tokens creates a mutually reinforcing negative feedback loop with market panic, rapidly evaporating its multi-billion dollar leverage built through borrowing and further dragging down Bitcoin's price.
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How Long Can It Hold On?
Currently, MicroStrategy still possesses:
• The so-called "42/42 funding plan" (raising $84 billion within three years);
• Approximately $1.44 billion in cash reserves, theoretically enough to cover about 21 months of expenditure.
On paper, it seems safe, but only on one condition:
Bitcoin's price must return to the key price range.
Otherwise, time is not a friend—
Every fluctuation depletes its last buffer.
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Ultimately, there's only one question:
Given the current highly suppressed expectation of a "death spiral,"
are you betting on:
• MicroStrategy going out of control first, triggering systemic risk?
Or
• Bitcoin returning to its upward trend, restarting the flywheel?
This isn't a technical question; it's a high-stakes gamble on confidence, liquidity, and time.
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