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Bitcoin can fall below $20,000 without crucially impacting MicroStrategy’s Bitcoin treasury.
New research <a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://x.com/PunterJeff/status/1863823733787406772" rel="null" target="null" text="null" title="null">published on social media</a> by capital adviser Jeff Walton on Dec. 3 concludes that the business intelligence firm could survive an 80% Bitcoin (<a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://cointelegraph.com/bitcoin-price" rel="null" target="null" text="null" title="https://cointelegraph.com/bitcoin-price">BTC</a>) price collapse.
<h2 id="microstrategy-feels-the-heat-only-if-btc-price-hits-18-000">MicroStrategy feels the heat only if BTC price hits $18,000</h2>
MicroStrategy’s Bitcoin exposure is higher than ever as the firm <a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-jumps-micro-strategy-buy-100-k-btc-price-in-focus" rel="null" target="null" text="null" title="null">buys billions of dollars’</a> more BTC.
While BTC/USD <a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-26k-record-monthly-btc-price-gain" rel="null" target="null" text="null" title="null">increased by nearly 40%</a> in November, analysis suggests that even a protracted correction would not cause significant problems for MicroStrategy and chair Michael Saylor, mastermind of the <a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://bitcointreasuries.net/entities/microstrategy" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" text="null" title="https://bitcointreasuries.net/entities/microstrategy">Bitcoin treasury</a>.
“The price of Bitcoin would need to fall to $18,826 in order for $MSTR’s assets to be worth less than their liabilities,” Walton calculated.&nbsp;
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 “An 80% drawdown from today’s price.”
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 MicroStrategy financial leverage data. Source: Jeff Walton/X
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The practice of adding BTC risk to company balance sheets has fielded its fair share of criticism. Moreover, Bitcoin has seen 80% retracements before. For instance, between November 2021 and November 2022, BTC/USD&nbsp;<a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-price-hits-multi-year-low-at-15-6k-analysts-expect-further-downside" rel="null" target="null" text="null" title="null">declined from $69,000 to a low of $15,600</a>.
For Walton, however, the argument against corporate Bitcoin adoption contains little logic.
“As the price of Bitcoin rises, the financial leverage falls, fast,” he said.&nbsp;
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 “For the ‘This will not end well’ / ‘Ponzi’ ‘pyramid scheme’ bears, run the math.&nbsp; The $MSTR balance sheet is arguably underutilized from a ‘leverage’ perspective.”
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 <img alt="MicroStrategy can ignore Bitcoin bear market price crash to $20K — Research" src="https://s3.cointelegraph.com/uploads/2024-12/01938c9a-e9e7-7efc-b9e5-86468c4ad1d6" title="">
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 MicroStrategy Bitcoin holdings data. Source: Bitcointreasuries.net
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<h2 id="institutional-bitcoin-demand-absolutely-insane">Institutional Bitcoin demand “absolutely insane”</h2>
Equally excited for the future of the corporate trend is Charles Edwards, founder of quantitative Bitcoin and digital asset fund Capriole Investments.
Related: <a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-fund-6-figure-btc-price-250k-in-2025" rel="null" target="null" text="null" title="null">Fund strategist echos 6-figure BTC price targets, sees $250K+ in 2025</a>
<a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://x.com/caprioleio/status/1863895715250090362" rel="null" target="null" text="null" title="null">Addressing</a> followers on X this week, Edwards noted that MicroStrategy was just one player in the new institutional Bitcoin investment arena. If anything, he argued, the market is not bullish enough on the outcome.
“MSTR raising $B/week to deploy into Bitcoin. MARA currently boosting its holdings by 30% with a $1B raise. Absolutely insane institutional demand,” he said.&nbsp;
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 “13.5% of all Bitcoin is now held by institutions and ETFs and it's going parabolic. It's wild how numb we all are to this now that it's the new normal. But this is the institutional adoption we were all dreaming about.”
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 Corporate Bitcoin adoption data. Source: Charles Edwards/X
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As <a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/biggest-us-dollar-gains-ever-5-things-bitcoin-this-week" rel="null" target="null" text="null" title="null">Cointelegraph reported</a>, Edwards sees the peak of the current Bitcoin bull run only beginning, with mass-market “FOMO” only due to begin once the BTC price passes the $100,000 mark.
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