Why Lyn Alden Says Strategy Let Its Dollar Reserve Slip Too Far

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Strategy has come under fire for complicating its own capital structure, and Laura Shin puts the toughest version of that critique to Lyn Alden, a longtime Strategy shareholder and two-time earnings-call questioner, including Michael Saylor's line that investors should sell a kidney before selling Bitcoin. Lyn Alden's answer: the real failure wasn't selling Bitcoin to cover dividends, it was letting the dollar reserve fall so far below the company's own guidance that investors stopped trusting it. Host: Laura Shin, Founder, CEO and Host of Unchained - https://x.com/laurashin Guest: Lyn Alden - Cofounder of Orange Juice and Partner at Ego Death Capital - https://x.com/LynAldenContact This clip is from a longer conversation on Strategy's capital structure and Bitcoin treasury risk. Full episode here: https://youtu.be/ezwkwQi_ewc We go live twice every week - subscribe to catch it live. Sponsor: Cape: Your biggest crypto vulnerability isn't your wallet, it's your phone number. Cape is America's privacy-first mobile carrier that rotates your SIM identity daily and blocks SIM swaps before they happen. Get 33% off your first six months at https://cape.co/unchained (use code: UNCHAINED). Chapters 🏛️ 00:00 Laura opens the debate over Strategy's capital structure 🩸 00:20 Laura invokes Michael Saylor's 'sell a kidney' line and asks for Lyn's take ⚠️ 00:36 Lyn Alden lays out her critique of Strategy's broken guidance 📋 01:12 The two questions Lyn pressed Strategy on during its earnings calls 📉 01:54 How Strategy's USD reserve fell to six months of dividend coverage 🛠️ 04:10 Why Lyn credits Strategy's convertible payoff over just buying more Bitcoin 🧠 04:58 Laura on why broken guidance, not Bitcoin exposure, spooked investors 🎯 06:00 What Lyn Alden would do now with STRC still trading in the 80s _______________________________________________________ #bitcoin #ethereum #crypto #cryptocurrencies ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Subscribe to our channel! Website → https://unchainedcrypto.com Unchained Daily Newsletter (FREE!)→ https://unchainedcrypto.beehiiv.com/subscribe/ Unchained X → https://x.com/unchained_pod Apple → https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1123922160?ls=1 Spotify → https://open.spotify.com/show/1cJrrfGY1SKBIRn5noKSAf?si=6SI4qIcRTEO7EhOe0V9n4w RSS Feed → https://feeds.megaphone.fm/LSHML4761942757 Unchained: Your no-hype resource for all things crypto!