Bitcoin Is Approaching An Inflection Point

Added: 2026-05-31

[00:00:06]This is not financial advice. It is for informational and educational purposes only. Bitcoin is approaching an inflection point and the inflection point is actually digital credit. It's obviously a new financial instrument that is possibly going to route trillions of dollars of fixed income capital into Bitcoin. Bitcoin is still trading under $100,000 and in my opinion, despite the arguably poor performance for Bitcoin over the last 12 to 24 months, the structural thesis of Bitcoin has actually not changed at all.

[00:00:44]If anything, I think the case for Bitcoin has gotten stronger. Let me explain what I mean.

[00:00:49]The monetization of a brand new monetary asset is not ever going to be smooth.

[00:00:58]It's going to come with extreme volatility and prolonged drawdowns. According to data from Bloomberg, Bitcoin has had four drawdowns greater than 50% since 2014 and the three largest averaged roughly an 80% decline and in three of the four cases it took nearly 3 years for the price to recover to the prior all-time high. Over that same window since 2014, Bitcoin still produced an annualized return or a CAGR of roughly 54%.

[00:01:30]Outperforming every major asset class by a pretty wide margin. Both things are true actually at the same time. The long run return of Bitcoin is extraordinary and the path to get there is brutal.

[00:01:45]Very few people can endure four plus years of that volatility. Maybe 1% of investors actually can. The other 99% want stability, less volatility, and income. And that is not necessarily a flaw in investor mentality. That is what most retirees, most institutions, most insurance balance sheets, and most corporate treasuries actually need. For 17 years, Bitcoin had no instrument that translated its scarcity into a product that the other 99% of people could actually hold. This is what actually changed with digital credit. This is the inflection point. Let's think about this. Digital credit is a dollar denominated income instrument issued by companies whose balance sheets are full of Bitcoin. The investor buys the credit instrument with dollars, the issuer uses those dollars to acquire more Bitcoin, the investor receives a dollar dividend paid monthly and soon daily in cash, and then Bitcoin's volatility is stripped out of the income product and transferred into the common equity of the Bitcoin-powered issuer, which there are a few of us that are willing to actually hold the amplified Bitcoin and are happy to absorb that excess volatility. Now, consider the size of the pool that this digital credit product is actually reaching for.

[00:03:11]According to Jesse Myers' updated 2026 global asset landscape chart, roughly 318 trillion dollars of global capital is sitting in bonds and fixed-income-like products.

[00:03:24]That is the capital base that needs yield, stability, and predictable cash flow. Digital credit is the first instrument in history that can offer that pool a Bitcoin-powered dollar yield. Even if a small fraction of that capital rotates into digital credit, the dollars routing through the digital credit issuers and into Bitcoin acquisitions would be measured in trillions. And the reason for this is quite simple. According to Federal Reserve data in April 2026, M2, broad US money supply, reached almost $23 trillion.

[00:04:01]M2 has grown at a compound annual growth rate of almost 7% since 1970, according to data from the Federal Reserve.

[00:04:09]Dollars are being debased over time by design. If Bitcoin simply tracks dollar debasement, Bitcoin appreciation would then cover 100% or more of the dividend obligations in perpetuity for the largest digital credit issuers as of today. Therefore, the credit investor does not need to be a massive Bitcoin bull. The credit investor only needs to continue to believe in dollar debasement. The yields on digital credit are already pretty interesting. Digital credit yields are currently running between 11 and 1/2 and 13% annualized, paid monthly and again soon daily in cash.

[00:04:50]The Fed funds rate, the two-year, the 10-year, 30-year Treasury yields are all obviously well below this. And this spread is quite interesting, even if you are not a huge Bitcoin bull. Now, think about how Bitcoin's total addressable market expands with digital credit. Of course, in my opinion, digital credit is still attractive to even existing Bitcoin holders. In Bitcoin bull markets, after a massive Bitcoin parabolic move, Bitcoin holders can rotate some of their massive returns into something more stable while still getting dollar income. In Bitcoin bear markets, holders who are temporarily bearish on Bitcoin can step out of the Bitcoin price exposure and access something like digital credit. Both flows route back through the issuers and into Bitcoin accumulation.

[00:05:40]And it is far more attractive and far more consequential to the 99% of capital that has no Bitcoin exposure at all so far.

[00:05:50]That is where the $318 trillion lives. Those investors do not want the four-year Bitcoin drawdowns. They do not want the 60 to 80% volatility. They want stability and consistent income. And they want it from an instrument powered by an asset that performs well in a world of a structural dollar debasement.

[00:06:12]Digital credit gives them that for the first time. With Bitcoin still under $100,000, the case for fixed income capital looking at digital credit is arguably stronger, not weaker. Treasury yields are well below the rate of monetary debasement. Digital credit yields are above the rate of monetary debasement and they're powered by a scarce monetary asset, arguably still in the early stage of its global adoption.

[00:06:37]New dollars then route in either direction. They buy Bitcoin directly to avoid monetary debasement, or they buy digital credit. That is the perpetual bid. This perpetual bid did not necessarily exist in any previous Bitcoin cycle. And I want to anticipate an obvious objection. Well, if Bitcoin drawdowns continue, can these dividends really get paid? The honest answer is that the entire system depends on one thing. Bitcoin has to keep working as good long-term savings technology. And as long as Bitcoin remains the best long-term store value, digital credit arguably should continue to work over time as well. Of course, risk itself is unavoidable. There is no such thing as risk-free. However, digital credit is now a bridge to the traditional financial system. To traditional fixed income capital. It is also a bridge to the 99% of people who simply want to preserve their money and generate income, who will never be able to sit through Bitcoin's extreme volatility on their own, at least during the monetization phase of Bitcoin, which we're currently in.

[00:07:48]Cold storage Bitcoin, obviously, is the foundation of all of this. Amplified Bitcoin is interesting for people that want to amplify the future returns of Bitcoin and want even more volatility.

[00:08:00]But digital credit is perhaps interesting to everyone else. And of course, rinse and repeat. This is a critical inflection point. The exit is now Bitcoin or Bitcoin via digital credit. Thanks for watching everyone, and see you next time.