@dotkrueger One of the last greats. In fact from the famous Harlem Jazz photo, he was the last
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Sonny Rollins passed away today. He was, in John Coltrane's own words "The best Tenor sax of all times".
That's like getting endorsed by God.
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@BastienFachan Did .@Gael_Monfils bring his white wife to .@naomiosaka “black only” party at the #FrenchOpen ?
If not, why? Why would you attend such a thing “without her”?
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Gael Monfils to Elina Svitolina:
'I would like to thank my wife because without her, I maybe wouldn't be still here tonight. We've been together 8 beautiful years, you have supported me, raised me up, loved me, and you gave me the greatest gift in our daughter. I love you' ❤️
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@BastienFachan An amazing human being… the world needs more role models like him
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Zara yıllardır modanın kralı gibi görülüyor.
Dünyanın neresine giderseniz gidin mutlaka bir Zara mağazası görürsünüz.
New York’ta da var,
Paris’te de var,
Tokyo’da da var,
İstanbul’da da var.
Ama Japonya’da işler biraz farklı ilerliyor.
Çünkü orada karşısında Uniqlo var.
Uniqlo klasik bir moda markası gibi davranmıyor.
Normalde moda markaları genelde bu sezon insanlara ne satabiliriz diye düşünür.
Renkler değişir,
kesimler değişir,
koleksiyonlar sürekli yenilenir.
İnsanlar eski üründen sıkılsın, yenisini almak istesin diye hareket edilir.
Mesela bu sene oversize moda olur,
seneye dar kesim geri gelir.
Yani amaç tamamen tüketimi hızlandırmaktır.
Mağaza vitrinleri gün aşırı değişir, kampanya yapılır, tüketicide kaçırma korkusu oluşturulmaya çalışılır.
Amaç insanların elindeki üründen sıkılmasıdır.
Çünkü moda sektöründe en büyük düşman, müşterinin bende zaten var demesidir.
Uniqlo ise biraz daha farklı düşünüyor.
Mesela bu t-shirt 5 yıl giyilir mi, bu mont her kış kullanılabilir mi, insan bunu her gün giyer mi tarafına oynuyor.
Uniqlo’nun sahibi olan Tadashi Yanai zaten tam Japon kafasında bir adam.
Babası küçük bir takım elbise mağazası işletiyor.
Yanai işi devralıyor.
Sonra diyor ki:
İnsanlara moda değil, kaliteli günlük kıyafet satacağım.
Yani gün aşırı değişen kıyafetleri değil de bir kere alıp yıllarca giyecekleri ürünleri satacağım diyor.
O dönem kimse bunu büyük vizyon olarak görmüyor.
Ama sonuç olarak dünyanın en güvenilir, en büyük moda zincirlerinden biri hâline geliyor.
Yani bir AVM’niz olsa güven oluşturmak için dersiniz ki:
Uniqlo gelsin burada mağaza açsın, kira almayalım.
Çünkü Japon açarsa diğerleri de açar, Uniqlo’yu gören herkes gelir, o mağazadan almayacağımız kirayı fazlasıyla hem gelen insanlardan hem diğer mağaza taleplerinden çıkarırız dersiniz.
Büyük itibarları var.
Uniqlo’nun dünya genelinde 2.500’den fazla mağazası bulunuyor.
Bunun yaklaşık 800’ü Japonya’da,
1.700’den fazlası ise yurt dışında.
Yani sadece Japonya’da değiller, tüm dünyaya yayıldılar.
Zara’nın ise dünya genelinde yaklaşık 2.000 mağazası bulunuyor.
Zara hızlı moda yapıyor.
Trend neyse onu hızla mağazalarına koyuyor.
Bir ürün tutarsa büyütüyor, tutmazsa kaldırıyor.
Uniqlo ise farklı düşünüyor.
Adamlar bu sene hangi renk moda olacak diye değil,
insanlar her gün ne giyecek diye düşünüyor.
Zara’nın sistemi dikkat çekmeye dayanıyor.
Uniqlo’nunki ise alışkanlık oluşturmaya.
Birisi müşteriye bak yeni bir şey geldi, kaçırma diyor,
diğeri zaten her gün beni giyeceksin diyor.
Ve Japon disiplini işin içine girince olay başka seviyeye çıkıyor.
Mesela Zara bir ceketi moda olduğu için satıyor,
Uniqlo aynı ceketi 10 yıl giyersin mantığıyla üretiyor.
Bu yüzden Japonya’da insanlar Zara’ya gidip bakıyor,
Uniqlo’dan çıkarken poşetle çıkıyor.
Çünkü Zara biraz heves işi,
Uniqlo ise ihtiyaç tarafına oynuyor.
Ve ihtiyaç tarafına oynayan markaları yenmek çok zor oluyor.
Tadashi Yanai çalışanlarına yıllarca şu mantığı anlatıyor:
Bir müşteri mağazadan bir kez alışveriş yaparsa bu başarı değildir. Başarı, tekrar geri gelmesidir.
Bu yüzden Uniqlo mağazalarında gösterişten çok tekrar alışveriş yaptıracak sistem kuruluyor.
Bunun da yolu kalite.
İnsanlar bugün aldığı üründen yarın memnun kalmazlarsa tekrar geri gelmezler.
Bu yüzden mecbur kaliteli üretmek zorundalar.
Zara’ya gidenler genelde biraz daha paranın değerini bilmeyen, yabancı markaları statü gibi gören genç kesim oluyor.
Uniqlo ise işinde gücünde, paranın zor kazanıldığını bilen, hem uygun olsun hem yıllarca giyeyim mantığında olan bilinçli insanlara hitap ediyor.
Bir de eskiden Zara ulaşılabilir ama bir tık premium görülüyordu.
Şimdi birçok ülkede fiyatlar ciddi yükseldi.
İnsanlar mağazaya girip etikete bakınca eskisi kadar rahat davranamıyor.
Uniqlo ise tam tersine hem kaliteli hem ulaşılabilir algısını korumaya çalışıyor.
Bunu Japon markası Toyota’da da görüyoruz.
Hem ulaşılabilir hem kaliteli.
Bir kere alan 10 yıl arkasına bakmıyor.
Yani otomobilde Toyota neyse giyimde Uniqlo o demek.
Zara ise biraz daha sorunlu olarak görülen Avrupalı otomobil üreticilerine benziyor.
Bilinçli müşteri şunu düşünüyor:
Aynı parayı vereceksem en azından uzun ömürlü olsun.
İşte burada Japon mantığı devreye giriyor.
Gösterişten çok fiyat-performansa önem veriyorlar.
Zara’nın mağazaları daha gösterişli,
ürünleri daha dikkat çekici.
Ama Uniqlo’nun sistemi daha tehlikeli.
Bir Zara mağazasına girince modayı hissediyorsunuz.
Bir Uniqlo mağazasına girince sistemi görüp alışverişe itiliyorsunuz.
Mağazaya girip boş çıkmanız imkansız.
Uniqlo, Zara’nın kalesi olan Avrupa’da bile hızla büyüyor.
ABD’ye agresif açılıyorlar.
Çin’de büyüyorlar.
Yani dünya genelinde inanılmaz hızlandılar.
Yani bir zamanlar Batılı markalara yetişmeye çalışan Japonlara şimdi Batılılar yetişmeye çalışıyor.
Çünkü onlar işi bir defa yapıyorlar ve en iyisini yapıyorlar.
Uniqlo’nun mağazalarına dikkat edin.
Çoğu ürün düz renk.
Gösteriş yok.
Çünkü Japonlar şunu düşünüyor:
İnsan bir ürünü ne kadar az düşünürse, o kadar çok giyer.
Toyota’da da aynı olay var.
Abartılı, uçuk kaçık tasarımları yok.
Ama insan o arabayı alınca yıllarca sorun çıkmayacağını biliyor.
Ürünler ben buradayım diye bağırmıyor ama insanlar üstünden de çıkarmıyor.
Zara hâlâ çok büyük güç.
Dünyanın en güçlü moda zincirlerinden biri.
Ama Japonya’da ve Asya’nın büyük bölümünde işleri eskisi kadar kolay değil.
Karşılarında kusursuz çalışan Japonlar var.
Ve tarihte genelde günlük hayatın içine giren markalar, trend olan markalardan daha uzun ömürlü oluyor…
Burada Zara batar mı?
Tabii ki batmaz.
Ama karşısında Uniqlo gibi kusursuz bir Japon markası varken çok da ileriye gidemezler.
Bakın, satışlarda Toyota’yı geçebilen Avrupa markası var mı?
Yok.
Ne zaman ki bu gerçekleşir, o zaman Uniqlo için de aynı şeyleri konuşuruz.
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An excerpt from Elina Svitolina's emotional letter about Gael Monfils to their daughter Skai, for @PlayersTribune, ahead of Gael's final Roland-Garros:
'The first thing you should know, I think, it’s that Gaël Monfils was one of the greatest shot-makers anyone has ever seen. There are others who were more consistent, or who made fewer mistakes … but it’s interesting. Because when you say why these players are great, maybe you are needing to give a long explanation. Or you are needing to show many statistics, or a whole match, or a whole tournament. But with your dad? It’s not like this. With your dad, it’s so simple. You can show someone a single point of his, even a single shot … and now they will “get it.” Because your dad, in just one shot, one moment, he could achieve what I think few athletes ever achieve. He could make people feel something. Almost like at a concert and there’s a perfect song, or at the movies and there’s a perfect line, and you have this feeling like, Oh my god. WOW. It takes your breath away.'
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@Briviagra They need to colonize Africa again !!! They only know extraction of wealth not creation.
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I want to learn from everyone here.
What part of Japan do you want to see more from a Japanese perspective?
Culture?
Daily life?
Food?
Traditions?
Language?
Travel?
Japanese values?
Your replies will help me decide what to post next 🇯🇵
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@SVG__Collection Remember listening to Giles Peterson. He tuned me into this great artist
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Strategy has acquired 24,869 BTC for ~$2.01 billion at ~$80,985 per bitcoin and has achieved BTC Yield of 12.6% YTD 2026. As of 5/17/2026, we hodl 843,738 $BTC acquired for ~$63.87 billion at ~$75,700 per bitcoin. $MSTR $STRC strategy.com/press/strategy…
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@beyoncegarden Former sailor here:
There’s also the option of breathing slow and leaning all the way backwards and allowing your body to float.
Don’t fight the water.
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@IMAO_ skin colour is not the problem. This actress at least looked passable as Helen of Troy, despite it being a low budget series. There are many beautiful women of colour which would’ve been much better casting choices for such a big project. You people are obsessed with skin colour.
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Interestingly, Xena Warrior Princess had a black Helen of Troy thirty years ago, but race wasn’t a big deal back in the 90s.
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Are you really that ignorant as fuck, or are you just chasing the payout now that Musk has RTed you and the MAGA audience is watching?
Some of what you wrote is correct. Much of it is not.
Greek identity was fundamentally about blood, ancestry, language, sanctuaries and customs, as Herodotus makes clear in 8.144: ὅμαιμόν τε καὶ ὁμόγλωσσον καὶ θεῶν ἰδρύματά τε κοινὰ καὶ θυσίαι ἤθεά τε ὁμότροπα. The Olympics excluded non-Greeks by ancestry; that part holds.
Here is what you miss or deliberately hide. ὅμαιμον, the same blood, was real and important; yet the kin could and did accept non-Greeks on the clear condition that they became Greeks, adopted the language, customs, religion and produced Greek children.
Blood was the foundation, but it expanded often through forced assimilation. They didn't give a fuck about blood purity in the sense you are presenting it. If they did, they'd had remain tribal and never become the civilisation they became.
Now, let's look at the sources you leave out. Miltiades, the hero of Marathon, married a Thracian princess named Hegesipyle; their son Cimon, half-Thracian, became one of Athens’ greatest statesmen as Plutarch records it in the Life of Cimon 4.1.
Alexander the Great married Roxana the Bactrian, Stateira and Parysatis the Persians, and compelled more than ninety of his officers to do the same at Susa, with the children raised as Macedonians and Greeks; Arrian describes this in Anabasis 7.4.
The founders of Miletus killed the Carian men and married their daughters; their children became fully Greek as Herodotus states it plainly in 1.146. Thales of Miletus was of Phoenician descent; Herodotus himself was half-Carian.
In Sicily, Greek settlers mixed with the Sicels until their culture became indistinguishable. In the Black Sea colonies Herodotus calmly names the Callippidae, the Greek-Scythians, who blended blood, language and customs while living as Greeks.
Even Pericles’ citizenship law of 451 BC, requiring both parents to be Athenian, was passed because such mixing had become common; you do not legislate against something that is not happening (Aristotle notes it in the Athenian Constitution 26.4).
On pederasty your etymology changes nothing. Insult words for the passive adult male existed, yet the institution was formalised in Sparta and elite circles; Plutarch describes it in the Life of Lycurgus 17–18. Plato’s Symposium 179e–180b treats Achilles and Patroclus openly as lovers. Plato in Laws says that banning homosexuality in Sparta and Crete is difficult because it is culturally ingrained.
The primary sources show a far more complicated, polytropos Greek world than the false version you offer your largely moronic audience.
You either do not know these passages or you choose not to mention them. In either case you are not serving the truth; you are serving the expectations of an MAGA audience that pays for a particular story.
You are αμερικανίζειν hard. You take the payout and give them the script they want instead of the actual Greek record.
Ancient Greek world is not a script written for foreign consumption. It is more interesting, more nuanced and more true than that.
Which bring me to my first question: Are you really that ignorant as fuck, or are you just chasing the payout now that Musk has RTed you and the MAGA audience is watching?
Homer Pavlos@HomerPavlos
They can't stand the truth, so they are pushing anti-Greek propaganda. The Ancient Greeks were ethnocentrists. You were either Greek or Barbarian. Yes, the Greeks did mention skin color. "Ethiopian" is a Greek word derived from Αἰθίοψ (Aithiops), which means "burnt-face person." Although the Greeks did not care about skin color as people care today, they did care deeply about genealogy and Greek blood/ancestry. Their societies were strictly closed, and they did not accept non-Greeks barbarians either in their cities or in their athletic games and religious festivals. The bloodline was always an integral part of Greek national continuity, and the first written testimony is found in Herodotus: "The Greek identity, being of the same blood and the same language, the common sanctuaries of the gods and sacrifices, and similar customs and ways of life" (Book 8, 144). They did not accept non-Greeks in their cities, in the Olympic and other Panhellenic games, in their mysteries and religious festivals. And it's a deep rooted tradition. Even today when we meet someone, a new friend the first question we do is to ask where is he/she from. "Where are you from? Athenian, a village or are you foreigner?". Many times we are trying to prove that our village is better than his/her. But we still care about bloodline and ancestry. Marxists can't deal with that truth so they are trying to change it with lies and pseudoscientific books. Academics and uneducated kids with he/him and they/them pronouns on their profiles and pictures and paintings of "gay" Achilles-Patroclus think that Ancient Greece, Gods and mythology matches with their agenda. They have no idea what's the truth because they never opened a real book. They only read secondary marxist authors. Greeks were the real racists (not for the skin color but for the bloodline) and invented ethnocentrism. Also they had multiple negative words for the gays like: κίναιδος (kinaidos) = κινεῖν τὴν αἰδῶ = the lewd man, the one who stirs pleasure, the fornicator. The "ai" is a diphthong. The one who stirs shame and disgrace for himself. It is derived from moving the shame (αἰδῶ), or from moving the genitals. or ἀνδροβάτης (androbates) = ἀνήρ + βαίνω = the active kinaidos (the active homosexual male). or καταπύγων (katapygon) = κατα- + πυγ(ή) + -ων = lustful, vulgar, worthless, lewd, kinaidos. The anti-Greek propaganda needs to stop.
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Tu confonds deux choses, et c'est exactement le piège que la French Theory a tendu.
Liberté, égalité, fraternité — égalité *de droits*, égalité *devant la loi*, égalité *de dignité*. C'est la promesse républicaine, et personne ici ne l'attaque.
Le wokisme, ce n'est pas ça. C'est l'égalitarisme des résultats. Et l'égalitarisme des résultats, contrairement à l'égalité des droits, n'est pas un élargissement de la liberté — c'est sa négation.
Quelques exemples concrets :
— San Francisco supprime les classes de maths avancées au collège pour "réduire les inégalités". Résultat : les écarts entre élèves explosent, les familles aisées prennent des cours privés, les pauvres se font enterrer. L'égalitarisme a creusé l'inégalité.
— Les politiques de discrimination positive à Harvard : étudiants admis avec des scores très en dessous de leurs camarades, taux d'échec dispropportionné, sentiment d'imposture, ressentiment généralisé. On a saboté ceux qu'on voulait aider.
— L'aide humanitaire qui distribue du riz gratuit pendant 30 ans en Afrique : effondrement des filières agricoles locales, dépendance institutionnalisée. Donner un poisson, c'est empêcher d'apprendre à pêcher.
Le wokisme ne détruit pas l'humanité dans le sens dramatique. Il fait pire : il dessert systématiquement ceux qu'il prétend protéger, et il génère du ressentiment des deux côtés — ceux qu'on infantilise et ceux qu'on culpabilise.
La fraternité républicaine dit : tu es mon égal, donc je te traite en adulte capable.
Le wokisme dit : tu es ma victime, donc je dois te protéger de toi-même.
L'un élève. L'autre infantilise. Ce n'est pas la même chose, et confondre les deux est exactement le tour de passe-passe qu'on dénonce.
Eduardo Suarez@EduardoSuarez25
@brivael Francia exporta libertad, igualdad y fraternidad desde hace 237 años. Quienes invocan el "wokismo" como destrucción de la humanidad simplemente reflejan su falta de respeto de la identidad ajena, y su necedad de valores, mientras piden respeto a sus ideas niegan las de los demás.
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From someone who knows:
"Oracle will go bankrupt. Oracle, Anthropic and Open AI have over-invested in data centers and will crash."
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This is literally because he put a black woman in a movie
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Metaplanet is cooking. That's for sure.
We have:
- US capital market access
- Potentially bridging Japanese and US capital markets
- Launching financial & asset management products
- Building & investing in Bitcoin infrastructure in Japan
- Potentially the largest and only (!) company with prefs in Japan
I think it's way more likely that Metaplanet goes to $100+ per share than to $0.
Once this flywheel gets going, the 2025 parabolic rise will like a small blip on the chart.
Okay, I might need more Metaplanet shares before the prefs launch.
THE BITCOIN PHARAOH@thebtcpharaoh
Metaplanet's US Strategy: What Metaplanet Is Building in the US — Connecting Every Dot Over the past couple of weeks, #Metaplanet management have been dropping clues that they are preparing something significant on the US side. We can all guess what it is (and there are several possibilities) but it’s becoming increasingly clear that something is in the works. Here’s what I’m seeing. The chronological US buildout A 13-month progression that doesn't look incidental when you line it up: → April 2025: Metaplanet Treasury Corporation (Miami) established — highlighted by COO Yoshimi Abe on May 7: "One year ago, we established Metaplanet Treasury Corporation in Miami, our first US entity." x.com/Yoshimi3350Abe… → July 2025: Establishment of US Holding Subsidiary and Share Transfer by Way of Contribution in Kind → September 17, 2025: Metaplanet Income Corp (US) established — specifically to operate the Bitcoin Income Generation business out of US jurisdiction → December 12, 2025: Form F-6 filed with SEC — registration of Sponsored ADR shares → December 19, 2025: SEC declares the F-6 effective. Sponsored Level 1 ADR launches under ticker $MPJPY with Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas as depositary and MUFG Bank as custodian. → March 12, 2026: Strategic-disclosure day. Three coordinated filings drop together: • Establishment of Metaplanet Asset Management (US subsidiary) • Establishment of Metaplanet Ventures K.K. (Japan venture arm) • Investment in JPYC Inc. via Metaplanet Ventures I want to pause here for a minute and share a excerpt from their own filing: contents.xj-storage.jp/xcontents/3350… This is the actual language from Metaplanet's March 12 filing announcing Metaplanet Asset Management: "The Company sees an opportunity to establish a dedicated asset management platform to serve this market, bridging Asian and Western capital markets." The same filing goes further. It explicitly names the product set: "perpetual preferred securities and related fixed income instruments, a category increasingly referred to as Digital Credit" — alongside "actively managed strategies… derivatives and structured positions, equity and credit strategies focused on Bitcoin treasury companies… index products and benchmarks." Then it commits to the rollout: "The Company intends to announce specific funds, managed strategies, and structured products as they are launched, spanning the full spectrum of Bitcoin capital markets from yield instruments and fixed income to actively managed equity, credit, commodity, and volatility strategies." This plan was disclosed two months ago in plain English in a filing on their website. This has been in the works for some time. A perpetual preferred ("Digital Credit") is the most likely first product IMO. But it's the first product in a platform, not a one-off raise. Metaplanet Asset Management is the operating engine for a multi-product Bitcoin capital markets business — issued out of US jurisdiction, designed from inception to bridge Tokyo-listed parent equity, US institutional appetite, and Japanese yield-starved capital into a single ecosystem. → March 16, 2026: Capital Allocation Policy revised. → April 13, 2026: Metaplanet opens a 60-day fee-free window (Apr 13 to Jun 12) for converting unsponsored $MTPLF shares into sponsored $MPJPY ADRs. Removes the standard $0.05/ADR fee. More on this later. → April 26, 2026: Metaplanet lights up the Las Vegas Sphere with "Secure the Future with Bitcoin" — ~$450K/day for premium US institutional visibility. dlnews.com/articles/marke… → April 27, 2026: High-tier sponsor of Bitcoin for Corporations at Bitcoin 2026 Conference (Venetian, Las Vegas) → May 7–13, 2026: Boston (and potentially other US cities) week-long institutional roadshow. Full senior team: Simon Gerovich (CEO), Dylan LeClair (Head of BTC Strategy), Yoshimi Abe (COO), Shinpei (IR). → May 13, 2026: Q1 FY2026 results filed. Same day, coordinated messaging: • Simon: Japan prefs listing "has taken longer than we initially anticipated… we appreciate that this has created uncertainty" — explicit admission of delay. Flagged monthly dividends as a structural feature that would also take time to build. x.com/gerovich/statu… • Dylan: "Transforming capital markets is patient work. We will continue diligently, tirelessly, and without compromise, in Japan and abroad." The "and abroad" is not a slip. Shoutout to @swissBTCmaxi for catching that x.com/swissBTCmaxi/s… Five US legal entities. Sponsored ADR with a major Wall Street depositary. Million-dollar Sphere/conference spend. CEO + COO + Head of Bitcoin Strategy + IR on a senior-roadshow tour. Coordinated same-day messaging. The fee-waiver window is not a coincidence Look at the calendar. The fee-free $MTPLF→$MPJPY conversion window runs Apr 13 to June 12, 2026. My projected announcement window for a US perpetual preferred (144A path) is mid-June to mid-July (more on this below). The waiver expires almost exactly when the announcement is expected to land. This isn't coincidence. Before issuing a USD-denominated perpetual preferred under the same parent, you want the sponsored ADR — Deutsche Bank-backed MPJPY — trading with consolidated, deep, institutionally-clean float. So management compressed the MTPLF→MPJPY migration into a 60-day sprint that ends right as the new product needs the ADR liquidity to launch on top of it. The pricing reality A 5-6% rate works in Japan because Japan is yield-starved. It does not work in the US, where the comparable BTC-treasury perpetual prefs already clear at much higher yields - let’s just call it anywhere between 10-14% depending on the instrument and issuer. If Metaplanet issues a USD perpetual preferred to clear at scale ($200–500M), the coupon almost certainly needs to be 12%+. The EDGAR reality check I went to SEC EDGAR to red-team this. Here's what I found: → Metaplanet Inc. (CIK 0002100603) has only TWO filings ever: the F-6 ADR registration and its EFFECT notice — both from December 2025. Zero filings in 2026. → Metaplanet Asset Management — no EDGAR registration. Not a filer. → Metaplanet Income Corp — no EDGAR registration. Not a filer. → Metaplanet Treasury Corporation — no EDGAR registration. Not a filer. → (Note: "Metaplanet AI Fund I, LP" exists on EDGAR with Estonian principals and AI focus — completely unrelated, just a name coincidence.) This rules out an imminent NYSE/Nasdaq listing or fully SEC-registered F-1 IPO — those require scaffolding that we'd already see by now. But it strongly supports a Reg S / 144A private placement path: 144A placements sell to qualified institutional buyers (QIBs) only Don't require SEC pre-registration Allow public marketing without quiet period (which is exactly what we're observing) Can close in 4–12 weeks from pre-marketing This is the same mechanism Strategy used for $STRC/$STRD/$STRF — initial 144A placement, eventual broader registration The most likely scenarios, ranked 1. US 144A perpetual preferred. Issued by Metaplanet Inc. or Metaplanet Asset Management, structured like a $STRC clone (or possibly convertible like MERCURY). Sized $200–500M. Targets QIBs initially; broader exchange listing later. 2. Metaplanet Asset Management product launch. Could be a US-domiciled BTC treasury fund or managed strategy that institutional allocators buy into. Distinct from issuing securities directly. Fees on AUM become a revenue line. 3. $MPJPY upgraded from Level 1 to Level II/III ADR. Common stock dual listing on Nasdaq. Simpler, faster, no new instrument. But EDGAR shows no F-3 yet, so this would push to Q4 2026 at earliest. Some of the scenarios may not be mutually exclusive. Timeline If 144A path (most likely): Roadshow start: May 7 ✓ Anchoring institutional orders: 3–6 weeks Announcement window: mid-June to mid-July 2026 Pricing and close: 2–4 weeks post-announcement 144A listing / QIB trading start: late July to early August 2026 Closing thoughts @Strategy is running the best capital markets playbook in financial history. @Strive is doing a fantastic job and punching above its weight. But the loudest stories aren't always the biggest ones. Metaplanet is building something none of the others have. Don't write off the dark horse just because there is a new flavor of the month. They've been training. And they're ready to sprint.
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