Bitcoin's biggest holders, Strategy and Metaplanet, are betting on math, not price

Bitcoin $BTC$63,636.04 continues to trade in a narrow price band, and two of its biggest corporate believers aren’t blinking.

Simon Gerovich, CEO of Metaplanet, and Michael Saylor, executive chairman of Strategy, two of the cryptocurrency’s biggest corporate holders, have doubled down on their argument that $BTC’s maximum issuance of 21 million coins beats infinite money printing, whatever the price is doing this week.

On Sunday, Gerovich noted that the global M2 money supply has reached an all-time high of over $100 trillion, calling it a bullish long-term tailwind for the cryptocurrency.

“Bitcoin’s price has decoupled from liquidity over the past year. But supply schedules don’t change,” Gerovich said. “21 million will always be 21 million. When the money supply expands forever, you hold the asset that can’t. That’s why we hold hard money.”

Bitcoin’s price has decoupled from broader liquidity expansion over the past year. Even as M2 money supply swelled, $BTC has nearly halved to $63,500. The divergence is consistent with previous market cycles, in which bearish trends bitcoin’s price temporarily detached from rising macroeconomic liquidity.

Saylor voiced a similar opinion in a different framing. He said that understanding bitcoin requires first understanding money itself.

“Money is energy. Bitcoin is digital monetary energy,” he stated, drawing from his recent essay arguing that money functions as stored economic energy created by human effort, and that bitcoin represents its most efficient digital form because “its supply cannot be expanded arbitrarily.”

Strategy holds 840,447 $BTC, worth $53 billion, making it the world’s largest publicly listed bitcoin holder. Tokyo-listed Metaplanet holds 43,000 $BTC ($2.7 billion), putting it in third place, according to data source Bitcoin Treasuries.

Jurrier Timmer, director of global macro at Fidelity, also said he expects $BTC to catch up with money supply if gold starts rallying again.

“Based on my Gold & Liquidity regression between global M2 and gold, gold is worth around $5k. My guess is that if gold starts to build momentum from here, that rising tide will take Bitcoin and Ethereum with it,” Timmer said on X.

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Read more: For analysis of today’s activity in altcoins and derivatives, see Crypto Markets Today . For a comprehensive list of events this week, see CoinDesk’s “Crypto Week Ahead.”

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