I joined
@kornelijalaura at the
@xapobankapp Conference in London on July 1 for a fireside chat on Bitcoin as Digital Capital, the emergence of Digital Credit, and the path to Bitcoin-backed Digital Money.
Fix the money, fix the world. $BTC
00:42 — Bitcoin below $60K and the mission: “Fix the money, fix the world”
01:27 — Bitcoin as the dominant Digital Capital network and the next great digital transformation
02:55 — Bitcoin Dominance approaching 69–70% and why “the flippening” debate is over
04:21 — The next layers: Digital Credit and Digital Money built on Bitcoin
06:56 — Strategy as an institutional gateway: attracting $64–65B into Bitcoin across equity, derivatives, credit, and money markets
12:28 — $STRC: bitcoin-backed preferred equity designed to create asset-backed Digital Credit
15:33 — The $STRC breakthrough: potential tax-deferred credit dividends backed by unrealized Bitcoin gains
18:18 — Digital Credit on Digital Capital: the killer app of a $50B bitcoin-backed balance sheet
19:48 — Digital Money: zero-volatility, fiat-pegged, yield-bearing bitcoin-backed assets
22:32 — Stress testing $STRC through deeper Bitcoin drawdowns
25:51 — $STRC vs. Bitcoin in the bear market: stripping ~90% of Bitcoin’s downside volatility
27:04 — Transparent Digital Credit: modeling risk from Bitcoin price and volatility every 15 seconds
30:34 — The builder roadmap: “If you want to make money, make the money”
32:27 — $STRC, $SATA, and the credit layer behind bitcoin-backed Digital Money
36:20 — Wrapping Digital Money as accounts, funds, public products, or tokens
41:27 — Creating Digital Credit on Digital Capital, then Digital Money on Digital Credit
43:00 — 2026 headwinds: geopolitics, the Fed, AI capital rotation, and digital asset regulation
44:54 — Potential catalysts: $STRC returning to par, Digital Credit reaccelerating, and capital flowing back to Digital Capital
46:01 — Why current market conditions may be a strong entry point for Digital Money builders