Peter Schiff: Short sellers could force Strategy to sell BTC to repurchase shares—or trigger a “death spiral”

Economist and crypto skeptic Peter Schiff posted that market optimism toward Bitcoin is “excessively complacent.” While Strategy’s other end is connected to Wall Street, it is currently under clear pressure: its stock price has fallen roughly 80% from its peak, and dropped another ~20% within just five days; its flagship preferred stock STRC also declined approximately 13%. If short-selling pressure continues to depress Strategy’s stock price, it could trigger an extreme scenario—Strategy may be forced to betray its commitment and sell Bitcoin to repurchase shares. Yet this move may fail to lift the stock price and instead trigger further Bitcoin price declines, creating a negative-feedback death spiral—the very situation that Strategy’s own strategic structure has “trapped Michael Saylor in.”