Bitcoiners accuse JPMorgan of rigging the game against Strategy, DATs

Members of the Bitcoin assemblage and supporters of Strategy, the largest firm holder of BTC, are criticizing JPMorgan’s projected Bitcoin-backed notes, accusing the slope of spreading fear, uncertainty and uncertainty astir Strategy and different crypto treasury firms.

JPMorgan’s notes are a leveraged concern merchandise tied to the terms of Bitcoin (BTC). The merchandise tracks BTC but amplifies the outcome, giving holders 1.5 times the gains — oregon the losses — done December 2028. The notes are slated for a December 2025 launch, according to an SEC filing. 

The determination drew crisp criticism from the Bitcoin community, with galore saying that JPMorgan is present a nonstop rival to BTC treasury companies and has an inducement to marginalize companies similar Strategy to beforehand its ain structured fiscal product.

Fact expanse for JPMorgan’s Bitcoin notes. Source: JPMorgan

“Saylor opened the doorway to the $300 trillion enslaved marketplace and $145 trillion fixed income market. Now, JP Morgan is launching Bitcoin-backed bonds to compete,” said a Bitcoiner connected X, adding that “the aforesaid institutions attacking MSTR are copying the strategy.”

Bitcoin advocator Simon Dixon besides noted that JPMorgan’s upcoming merchandise exists “to trigger borderline calls connected Bitcoin-backed loans,” claiming that it volition “force merchantability unit from Bitcoin treasury companies successful down markets.”

On X, crypto enthusiasts and Strategy supporters are present calling for a boycott of JPMorgan, encouraging chap Bitcoiners to adjacent accounts astatine the fiscal services elephantine and merchantability immoderate shares successful the institution they mightiness own.

Source: The Bitcoin Therapist

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MSCI regularisation alteration connection triggers clash

The backlash against JPMorgan began erstwhile MSCI, formerly Morgan Stanley Capital International, a institution that manages banal indexes and sets the criteria for scale inclusion, projected a argumentation displacement excluding treasury companies from its products.

The projected shift, acceptable to instrumentality effect successful January, bars crypto treasury companies with 50% oregon much of their assets successful cryptocurrencies from inclusion successful the index.

JPMorgan shared the projected argumentation displacement successful a November probe note, drafting crisp disapproval from the BTC assemblage and Strategy investors.

Excluding crypto treasury companies from banal indexes deprives them of passive superior flows and could unit these companies to merchantability disconnected their crypto holdings to suffice for scale inclusion, driving plus prices down further.

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