Original Title: 《Put the Crypto in the Index Funds》
Original Author: Matt Levine
Translated by: jk, Odaily
What Strategy Did Vanguard Take?
Today's basic situation is that the U.S. stock market will buy 1 dollar of cryptocurrency with 2 dollars of stock valuation. If a small listed company holds cryptocurrency assets like Bitcoin, Ethereum, or Trump Coin worth 1 billion dollars, its market value will at least rise to 2 billion dollars. This transaction looks both confusing and like magic. MicroStrategy pioneered this approach (now simply shortening its name to "Strategy", holding about 70 billion dollars in Bitcoin, with a market value of around 138 billion dollars), and now various small companies are constantly imitating and seemingly succeeding.
[The rest of the translation follows the same professional and accurate approach, maintaining the original tone and meaning while translating to English.]