News Block: Bitcoin Wins the War Trade, Private Credit Collapses, Strategy's STRC Just Became the Most Liquid Preferred Stock on the Market

In this week's episode of the Coin Stories News Block powered exclusively by Ledn, we cover these major headlines related to Bitcoin, macroeconomics, and global finance:

• Bitcoin currently outperforms gold, S&P 500 amid Iran War
• Tremors in private credit sector
• Strategy deploys billions into Bitcoin with STRC - what's happening?

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References mentioned in the episode:

• CoinDesk: BTC Sold Off First When the U.S.-Iran War Began. Two Weeks Later, It's Outperforming Nearly Everything
• CoinDesk: BTC Set for Best Week Since Sep. as Correlation with Tech Stocks Weakens
• River: BTC Has Outperformed Stocks & Gold in Every Geopolitical Crisis Since 2020 
• Fortune: Bitcoin Outperforms Gold and Stocks Since Beginning of Iran Conflict
• Stanley Druckenmiller's Recent Comments on Bitcoin as a Store of Value
  
• Joe Consorti's Tweet on Bitcoin Outperformance Since Iran Strikes
• Strategy: Strategy Acquires 17,994 BTC and Now Holds 738,731 BTC
• CoinDesk: Strategy's STRC Preferred Series Gets $50 Million Investment from Strive OranjeBTC's Tweet Explaining it
• Decision to Allocate to Stretch (STRC)
• CoinDesk: The Math Behind Strategy's Path to 1 Million Bitcoin by the End of 2026 STRC Live: Real-Time STRC Tradin
• Data and Bitcoin Purchase Estimates
• Strategy's Dashboard with Information Concerning STRC
• Phong Le's Tweet on STRC Trading Volume and Price Stability 
• Phong Le's Tweet on STRC Reaching Escape Velocity
• Michael Saylor's Tweet on STRC Being the Most Liquid Preferred Equity
• Michael Saylor's Tweet Hinting at Another Big Bitcoin Purchase
• Strategy's Tweet Comparing Digital Credit and Private Credit
• Joe Consorti's Tweet on Strategy's Estimated BTC Purchases Through STRC
• Fortune: The $265B Private Credit Meltdown — How Wall Street's Hottest Investment Craze Turned Into a Panic
• Bloomberg: Morgan Stanley Limits Redemptions on Private Credit Fund
• Bloomberg: Private Credit Fears, War Darken Outlook for U.S. Financial Stocks Bloomberg: JPMorgan Restricts Privat
• Credit Lending After Markdowns
• CNBC: JPMorgan Reins in Lending to Private Credit Firms After Marking Down Software Loans 

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