Crypto titans weigh in: From bitcoin treasuries to barbell strategies

Strategy has acquired 4,048 BTC for ~$449.3 million at ~$110,981 per bitcoin and has achieved BTC Yield of 25.7% YTD 2025. As of 9/1/2025, we hodl 636,505 $BTC acquired for ~$46.95 billion at ~$73,765 per bitcoin. $MSTR $STRC $STRK $STRF $STRD https://t.co/dxXWygUijS

— Michael Saylor (@saylor) September 2, 2025

Cheap stablecoin transactions continue to be one of the most important sources of large-scale value that crypto provides today.

Excited to see @codex_pbc joining the arena as an L2 and thinking explicitly about synergy between itself and ethereum L1 from day one. https://t.co/BuCyZZqYgh

— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) September 5, 2025

You could have spent years pouring over public filings looking to capture an extra 1% annual return or you could have realized they are going to keep printing money and simply bought bitcoin.

In hindsight, the former looks ridiculous in light of the results from the latter.

— Anthony Pompliano ? (@APompliano) August 31, 2025

But unless you're a forex trader, with fiat you're not optimizing for upside. You're optimizing for lack of downside.

With a barbell strategy, you make money from crypto and tech investments, keep hard assets in Bitcoin, and have working assets in fiat.https://t.co/MzCTIZag7I

— Balaji (@balajis) September 6, 2025

Behold @Treasury_BTC, Europe's first-ever Bitcoin Treasury Company on a primary stock exchange. Amsterdam is the birthplace of the joint stock company and the stock market, two of the world’s greatest financial innovations. Treasury is continuing this tradition by bringing… https://t.co/Vb7fPIUQ3f

— Tyler Winklevoss (@tyler) September 3, 2025