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jack mallers
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genuine question: do people actually believe this?

to state the obvious, my business incentive is to keep the loan open for as long as possible. i get paid servicing my customer.

“taking their bitcoin” onto my balance sheet would be about the dumbest way imaginable for me to acquire bitcoin.

if i want to buy bitcoin at these levels (which i do every day, regardless of price), i buy it with profit.

we don’t lend out cash from our balance sheet because we don’t want to own billions of dollars of fiat. Strike owns as much bitcoin as possible. we lend out fiat that we got from someone else.

when a loan gets liquidated, it’s because i owe that cash back to someone else who gave me fiat. if the customer defaults, i have to sell the bitcoin to get them back the cash.

what do i want? i want bitcoiners to have healthy loans and never sell, forever. i buy bitcoin with the money i earn providing the service…

duh?
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Adam Dunlap ⚡️ · 11w
Question. When loans are backed by Bitcoin and can be liquidated immediately….. why is there a margin call and why is the loan rate so high? Seems like loan rate should be the smallest in the world and theres be no margin call until your wiped. What am I missing?
Artur…qywr · 11w
No. No need to waste time addressing this nonsense, Jack.
ihsotas · 11w
The people who believe this will always be left curvers. Too dumb and paranoid to bother with. Most probably don’t own enough bitcoin to participate. I think attacking the debt based system with Bitcoin loans is a perfectly suitable thing for people with plenty of Bitcoin so that they can use a ve...
Clayton · 11w
It’s an absurd belief but I’ve seen it all over nostr. People mad that their bitcoin bags aren’t pumping and looking at everyone and everything else to blame. Keep up the good work nostr:nprofile1qqsvf646uxlreajhhsv9tms9u6w7nuzeedaqty38z69cpwyhv89ufcqpzfmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ucprpmhxue...
dvo · 11w
it would be cool to see proof of reserves for the collateral to know it's there
William ₿ Travis · 11w
Not saying it's you who wants the bitcoin. It's the people who gave you the cash tocloan who want the bitcoin. There is a reason you can't get these types of loans in Texas.
CZIGO · 11w
Stay humble, stack sats ✌️✌️✌️
Zach Lanting · 11w
Jack, you're either getting attacked intentionally and/or people are just ignorant and deserve to get liquidated. As your average pleb, your consistent narrative makes logical sense. Don't let it get to you. Don't worry about making everyone happy, it'll be to your detriment.
ew0k · 11w
I’ve looked at a few accusations against you recently and the dots don’t seem to connect, people seem to just be sad bears rn or there are simple competitive smears afoot. I’m a happy strike customer and like the direction you’ve taken it broadly, and appreciate your public educational effor...
Sam · 11w
Nah dog we don’t believe that malarkey
Hard Money Herald · 11w
Your incentive structure makes sense — longer loans mean more servicing fees. The real risk isn't malicious liquidation, it's contagion during volatility when multiple borrowers get margin-called simultaneously and you're forced to liquidate into falling prices. How do you manage collateral concen...
Sean · 11w
Naw
Konqueror · 11w
Ever since you dropped that XRP video the fud storm on Jack intensified. Now ain’t that suspicious lol keep doing the good work my guy
pietre · 11w
These types of are just attention seekers imo. Making a controversial claim with a screenshot as proof? Give me a break.
One · 11w
I think bigger fish higher in the financial food chain want people's BTC and they don't give a damn how they get it
Benking · 11w
People forget incentives matter. You make money when bitcoiners don’t sell. That alignment says everything. Strong hands, healthy loans, long-term thinking. Bitcoin fixes incentives. 🧡
Marinatin · 11w
Still need to work on those T&Cs bruhskee.
bz · 11w
Getting mad at a lender when a borrower defaults is like getting mad at a casino because you lost at blackjack — the risk was literally the whole point.
Stephen Griffin · 11w
If you have good thoughts and good intentions (which I think you do ) there is nothing wrong in innovation and making a buck.
BlueDuckBTC · 11w
I am curious about this: If #bitcoin is the greatest asset in history to own AND proven to be the best performing asset over time. Who is lending cash loans? Why are they lending cash instead of just buying bitcoin through your company? Wouldn’t the smarter move be for your wealthy associates to...
Jamie · 11w
No, we don’t believe Strike is trying to steal its customers bitcoin. That would be an absurd business model. Strike offers loans. Jack has been upfront with the risks and have communicated many time that it is best to only use a small portion of an individual’s stack. Strike has even lowered...
Ryan Reynolds · 11w
Ignore the haters and keep up the great work, Jack!
Horszt · 11w
Haters are gonna hate!
everything sucks · 11w
Unfortunately, the natural brain state of 99% of bitcoiners is "conspiracy, someone is out to get me". Unable to perform critical thinking or understand cognitive dissonance. It really is embarrassing sometimes that the venn diagram between bitcoiners and conspiracy theorists is a near perfect ove...
Chad Lupkes · 11w
Jack, the fact that a Bitcoin company is offering loans of any kind is an insult to everything that Bitcoin stands for. It's bending the knee to the debt based systems that hold our entire global civilization in chains. It doesn't matter how honest you are as a person, and I believe that you are a...
kidwarp · 11w
Are you using morpho on the back end for lending?
mytwosats · 11w
Who are your partners for liquidity? Fiat Credit on top of btc brings us nowhere.
Pixel Survivor · 11w
jack mallers explains why strike's incentives align with you keeping your bitcoin. it matters because the future of bitcoin-backed finance depends on transparent math rather than blind trust. nostr:nevent1qqsywfelg6whgktp5tpzqsh2r2emv2rzymsrpjvqmuxedeu7rlncmaql0vq3m
Michael Friedl · 11w
Exactly. Bitcoin backed loans are a tool to be used responsibly. The people slandering Strike over this aren't offering practical solutions to real problems that real people face, only talk. And talk is cheap. They're purists for a world that doesn't exist and they aren't building anyway.
satsBoy 🤠 · 11w
Nobody believes that. Prepare for more FUD
chris ₿ 🇨🇭 · 11w
No, I don’t believe that. Ignore the noise.
BLOCKNERD · 11w
Not duh? if you facilitate KYC ...
MatCo · 11w
It’s not so much “do I believe in this?”, but more “do I know it not to be true?”. Don’t trust, verify.