Corporate Bitcoin Hoarders Risk Becoming Panic Sellers—StanChart Warns
Wall Street’s latest crypto darling—corporate Bitcoin holdings—might be a ticking time bomb. When markets turn, these ’strategic reserves’ could turn into fire sales faster than a VC can say ’long-term hodl.’
Here’s the kicker: institutions love talking about ’digital gold’ during bull runs. But when liquidity dries up? Suddenly everyone’s a forced seller—just ask the hedge funds that got rekt in 2022.
Bonus cynicism: Nothing brings out the diamond hands like a rising balance sheet. Nothing shatters them like a CFO needing to explain losses to shareholders.