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“And it's 10 and three quarters percent now, paid monthly in cash. I'll start with what is stretch. Stretch is the fourth of the five preferred securities that we've offered this year. But in plain layman's language, it's a security, it's an equity that you can buy in the NASDAQ, four letter ticker, STRC.”

“I think the largest banks in the world and the largest banks in the US are going to offer that entire stack of services in the next two to three years. They all realize that this isn't going away, that Bitcoin is For Everyone, and people are asking for access to the asset class, and they're either going to get it from their bank, or they're going to get it elsewhere.”

“And so if you think about what's happening with traditional powers of the world, the US government, the US banking system, they're all getting on board with Bitcoin. And that's extremely bullish for this year and 2026. Why the price action does what it does is sometimes hard to explain. But when you're an investor, you think about the long term of the asset class.”

“And then the last thing, which is what Mike talked about at Bitcoin Meet in the Middle East, which is digital money. How do you give somebody essentially access to something that looks like money backed by Bitcoin that gives them a steady yield? It's better to know that what they would get otherwise called eight, nine percent.”

“Everybody, no matter how rich or poor, or whether you're Democrat or Republican, should have a good return for the money that they save. Good is not 0%. Good is not the rate of inflation. Good is above the rate of inflation. So if it's 10 and 3 quarters percent, so be it, right? Like everybody should have access to that.”