{"id":40557,"date":"2025-08-05T15:31:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T15:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=40557"},"modified":"2025-08-05T15:31:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T15:31:40","slug":"fundstrats-tom-lee-owning-bitcoin-is-like-owning-land-under-a-mcdonalds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=40557","title":{"rendered":"Fundstrat&#8217;s Tom Lee: Owning Bitcoin Is Like Owning Land Under A McDonald&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Bitcoin <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) is undergoing a reframing in how institutions may treat it, not as a volatile asset, but as digital infrastructure <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/commodities\/25\/06\/45930322\/gold-vs-bitcoin-we-now-know-which-is-the-real-safe-haven\">akin to real estate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened: Fundstrat<\/strong> co-founder and <strong>Bitmine<\/strong> (AMEX:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/BMNR#AMEX\">BMNR<\/a>) chairman <strong>Tom Lee<\/strong> drew a sharp analogy in an <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BitwiseInvest\/status\/1952717441206812997\">conversation<\/a> with <strong>Bitwise<\/strong>, saying Bitcoin as a treasury asset is like owning the land underneath a <strong>McDonald&#8217;s<\/strong> franchise, not running the business.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s better to be the landowner of a McDonald&#8217;s franchise than the operator,&#8221; Lee said, explaining that corporations may begin viewing Bitcoin as a foundational asset \u2014 one that provides long-term capital leverage much like commercial real estate &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/25\/08\/46861936\/fundstrats-tom-lee-owning-bitcoin-is-like-owning-land-under-a-mcdonalds\" alt=\"Fundstrat's\" tom lee: owning bitcoin is like land under a mcdonald>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) is undergoing a reframing in how institutions may treat it, not as a volatile asset, but as digital infrastructure akin to real estate. What Happened: Fundstrat co-founder and Bitmine (AMEX:BMNR) chairman Tom Lee drew a sharp analogy in an conversation with Bitwise, saying Bitcoin as a treasury asset is like owning the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-40557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}