Did Strategy Cost Bitcoiners 150,000 BTC? | Parker Lewis of Zaprite

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Parker Lewis thinks bitcoin treasury companies may be doing the opposite of what Bitcoiners think they are doing. His argument is that investors have collectively saved about 150,000 fewer Bitcoin by buying these equities instead of Bitcoin. Parker believes Strategy's marketing is positioning Bitcoin as something other than currency and that's a huge risk. Parker spent his career in investment banking, credit restructuring and hedge funds before helping build Unchained, and he now leads Business Development at Zaprite. I own Strategy stock. I also self custody, run a node and sold my real estate for Bitcoin. I came to Bitcoin for the Freedom, I stayed for the Number Go Up technology. Parker…