Miller Cole

Miller Cole

Business Analyst @ Musqet, building Bitcoin-native payments. Politics and Economics student at the University of Bath.

Ghostwriting services for BTC companies. Writing on Bitcoin treasury strategy and corporate adoption.

Latest Articles

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Why STRC Is Struggling to Get Over $90 Again

Strategy's perpetual preferred remains more than $10 shy of its $100 par value, and the July options chain shows why. Two heavily-populated call strikes and a steadily rising cost to borrow are holding the line just below $90.

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Strategy Raises STRC Dividend to 12%, And Launches $2B Buyback Programs

Strategy will pay 12.00% on STRC from 1 July - but the rate rise arrives bolted to a $2.55bn USD Reserve floor, two $1bn buyback programmes, and a formal BTC monetisation mandate, and the company now says it will no longer lift the coupon simply because the stock trades below par.

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The Dangerous Temptation of Defending STRC with Cash

STRC closed at $75.69, roughly a quarter below the $100 it was built to defend, with an intraday low of $73. The 1M VWAP sits at $91.46 and the effective yield has reached 15.19% against an 11.50% coupon. The July rate increase now writes itself. The lever the market is arguing over is the one Strat...

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How STRC fell under $80 - And What Strategy Must Do Now

STRC has endured seven consecutive rate increases and its 1M VWAP sits at $94.09 while the stated yield remains 11.50%. The variable-rate guidance mechanism that was supposed to solve this problem has become part of it. There are four things Strategy needs to fix - and the market is watching all of...