MSCI vs Bitcoin: The Index War No One Saw Coming 🚀🔥

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Bitwise leaps into the galactic fray, defending Michael Saylor’s digital asset treasuries (DATs) with the moral authority of a confused spaceship captain and demanding MSCI stop playing favorites like a biased intergalactic tax collector.

 

Imagine, if you will, a world where the universe’s most perfectly objective system-index funds-suddenly goes full teenager and starts deciding who’s “cool enough” to be included based on vibes. That’s basically what MSCI has proposed, and Bitwise is here, towel in hand, ready to clean up the financial absurdity. 🛁🧼

The crypto ETF powerhouse has swooped in to defend one Michael J. Saylor-modern-day digital Columbus, corporate Bitcoin HODLer, and possibly the only CEO whose balance sheet doubles as a crypto rally cry. Bitwise is furious that MSCI wants to boot companies from its global indexes if more than 50% of their reserves are in digital assets. Which, let’s be honest, is about as fair as banning someone from the party because they brought guacamole instead of chips. 🥑🚫

The Great 50% Rule: Arbitrary or Absurd? 🤔

According to MSCI, if a company holds more than 50% of its reserves in Bitcoin-poof!-it’s index-ineligible, banished to the shadow realm of non-acknowledged financial entities. But if it holds 51% in real estate? ✅ Cool. 51% in stocks? ✅ Totally fine. 51% in tulip bulbs in 1637? Probably still on the list. 🌷📉

Bitwise called this out for what it is: a rule so selectively applied it might as well have “NOT FOR BITCOIN” carved into it with a rusty spoon. 🥄💡

MSCI’s proposal uses a 50% balance-sheet threshold for index eligibility.

51% in real estate or equities = Included ✅
51% in Bitcoin = Excluded 🚫

Why are digital assets being singled out?

Join the call for MSCI to withdraw this rule:👉

– Bitcoin For Corporations (@BitcoinForCorps)

Historically, indexes have happily included companies with one-trick balance sheets-oil barons, gold bugs, silver speculators-all thriving under the warm glow of market inclusion. But now, because a few brave souls decided to swap petrodollars for petasbytes of blockchain magic, MSCI acts like the financial world is about to collapse into a singularity. 🌌💥

Phong Le, CEO of Strategy (yes, that’s the company name-very minimalist, very mysterious), joined the digital rebellion. He pointed out that no one nitpicks an oil company for sitting on a lake of crude. Yet the second someone holds a lake of Bitcoin, the regulators descend like pigeons at a public sculpture unveiling. 🐦🪑

Digital Asset Treasuries: The New Economic Rebellion 🧨

Bitwise argues that digital asset treasuries-especially Saylor’s highly caffeinated, Bitcoin-soaked balance sheet-are not just viable, but visionary. They’re like the rebellious teenagers of corporate finance who refused to wear suits and instead showed up in leather jackets made of pure blockchain hash rate. 🔥⚡

They provide shareholder value in ways ETFs can only dream of-through boldness, bravery, and the sheer audacity of saying, “No, we won’t sell our Bitcoin. Not even if the sky falls and Elon changes his profile picture again.” 😎

Bitwise supports inclusion in MSCI’s Global Investable Market Indexes.

– Bitwise (@BitwiseInvest)

Excluding these companies, Bitwise warns, is like removing jazz from the history of music because some people don’t like saxophones. It’s not neutrality-it’s censorship with a spreadsheet. 📊❌

Neutrality: The Last Hope for Indexes (and Humanity) 💫

Bitwise issued a solemn plea: MSCI, return to your roots. Be the index you were meant to be-cold, impartial, and devoid of emotional bias, like a Vulcan accountant overseeing the galaxy’s balance sheet. 🖖🧮

Let investors decide what to invest in. Don’t pull the “we know better” move like a parent hiding your candy. 🍬👀

Seriously though-if MSCI follows through, investors will be cut off from rising stars of the digital economy. It’s like building a map of Earth and saying, “Nah, we’re just gonna skip this whole Africa thing.” 🌍🙅

A petition has already gathered over 600 signatures in a single day-faster than most people can explain what an ETF is. The message is clear: the financial world is evolving, and indexes should reflect actual reality, not some nostalgic version where money is only paper and hope. 📜💔

Bitwise’s final statement? Simple: Stay neutral. Reflect the market. Don’t be the bouncer who rejects the future just because it’s wearing a hoodie and quoting Nakamoto. 🧥🔐

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2025-12-13 08:06