Creating Bitcoin’s Technical & Financial Infrastructure For Maximum Adoption | Bitcoin 2026

Strategy is now buying 10x more Bitcoin than every ETF combined and they’re not slowing down. In this Bitcoin 2026 panel, Natalie Brunell sits down with Adam Back (Blockstream) and Phong Le (Strategy) to break down STRETCH, BSTR, and the technical and financial infrastructure powering Bitcoin’s next decade. The conversation covers tokenized treasury companies, 24/7 Bitcoin-denominated markets, and the cypherpunk principles that have to survive institutionalization. If you care about where Bitcoin meets the capital markets, this is the one to watch. Subscribe for more from Bitcoin 2026.

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🔶 Natalie Brunell – Talking Bitcoin
🔶 Adam Back – Blockstream
🔶 Phong Le – Strategy

Chapters:
0:00 – Strategy outpaces every Bitcoin ETF combined
2:00 – Adam Back, BSTR, and Blockstream’s full-stack vision
4:38 – What tokenization actually is and why it matters
7:15 – Digitizing the securities market: the Starbucks analogy
9:19 – Why a cypherpunk embraces institutional Bitcoin
11:43 – Where engineering meets the capital markets
12:51 – Bitcoin as the new corporate hurdle rate
15:19 – From oil giants to MAG 7: technology always wins
17:03 – Will Morgan Stanley and Citibank compete in Bitcoin credit?
19:11 – What’s next for STRETCH and the cypherpunk principle that must survive

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