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Cryptocurrencies in the Balance Sheet: Insights from (Micro)Strategy -- Bitcoin Interactions

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Pith's one-line read BTC is the dominant information driver for bitcoin-holding equities.

desk verdict A useful new dataset of 39 BTC-treasury firms and a solid MSTR-specific rolling-transfer-entropy analysis, but the paper's headline claim that Bitcoin consistently dominates information flow across the whole sample is not supported by its own full-sample TE results. read the letter →

arxiv 2505.14655 v1 pith:POUVNRKZ submitted 2025-05-20 q-fin.GN cs.ITmath.ITq-fin.ST

Sabrina Aufiero , Antonio Briola , Tesfaye Salarin , Fabio Caccioli , Silvia Bartolucci , Tomaso Aste This is my paper · ORCID
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keywords bitcointreasurytransferentropyBTCbetainformationflowcorporatehedgingMicroStrategycryptocurrencyequitiesdirectionaldependence
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The pith

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The reading

This paper asks which way information flows between Bitcoin and the shares of companies that keep Bitcoin on their balance sheets. Using daily returns for 39 listed BTC-holding firms from first acquisition through April 2025, it finds that Bitcoin is consistently the dominant driver: the average BTC beta is 0.62, twelve firms have betas above 1, and Strategy (MSTR) shows 1.37. Rolling transfer entropy confirms the asymmetry across time, with BTC-to-stock information flow significant in about 32% of windows for MSTR versus 14% in the reverse direction. The stakes are practical: if the asymmetry is real, static hedging ratios based on full-sample averages will misprice these equities during market events.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing instrument is one-day-lagged transfer entropy computed in 252-trading-day rolling windows with 1000 shuffles for significance, defined as the reduction in Shannon entropy of a firm's future returns when past BTC returns are added to the conditioning set. It is paired with a single-factor regression of each stock's daily log returns on BTC returns to estimate beta, same-day and lag-one Pearson correlations, and the Amihud illiquidity ratio, which together assign firms to exposure-liquidity groups and provide the vocabulary for interpreting who leads whom.

What would settle it

Compute the same transfer entropy and beta analysis using time-zone-aligned timestamps or intraday prices sampled at a common instant (for example, BTC at the exact equity close); if the dominant BTC-to-stock direction weakens or stock-to-BTC flow becomes comparable under alignment, the central asymmetry claim would be called into question.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

The paper's central claim is that BTC consistently acts as the dominant information driver for the sampled BTC-holding equities, with reverse information flow from stocks to BTC rare and tied to firm-specific announcements. This is established by an average one-day-lagged transfer entropy from BTC to stocks of 0.0151 bits versus 0.0144 bits in reverse, by rolling 252-day windows in which BTC-to-MSTR transfer exceeds the reverse and is significant in 31.6% of windows against 13.8%, and by a single-factor beta of 0.62 on average with MSTR at $eta = 1.37$. The authors interpret MSTR as a leveraged financial vehicle for BTC exposure rather than a price setter.

Load-bearing premise

The analysis assumes that daily closing prices retrieved for firms on different exchanges are synchronized with Bitcoin's around-the-clock trading, so that a one-day lag in transfer entropy measures genuine information flow rather than artifacts of nonsynchronous trading hours.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Static hedge ratios estimated over full samples will lag real exposures, because information flow between BTC and holdings stocks concentrates in bursts around market events.
  • For MSTR, a 1% BTC move is associated with a 1.37% equity move, so hedges need a beta of about 1.37 and must be re-estimated as BTC's share of valuation changes.
  • Equity proxies for BTC, like MSTR, transmit BTC risk but only rarely transmit firm-specific news back to BTC, so diversification strategies treating them as BTC substitutes inherit market beta plus idiosyncratic firm risk.
  • Firms with large BTC holdings relative to market cap but low liquidity, such as Fold, show dampened correlations with BTC, implying price-impact effects mask underlying exposure in daily data.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • A testable extension: intraday or time-zone-aligned data should reduce the measured BTC-to-stock information lag; if the asymmetry persists under alignment, the conclusion is robust, and if it vanishes, part of the reported dominance is a settlement-time artifact.
  • The results suggest the 'Bitcoin treasury' strategy is primarily a way to sell volatility and leverage, not to create alpha; firms adopting it can expect their equity to become a derivative of BTC with firm-specific noise.
  • By analogy, tokens other than BTC on balance sheets (e.g., Solana purchases) should exhibit weaker equity-to-token information flow because BTC is the market-wide benchmark; this is a checkable prediction.
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Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

4 major / 5 minor

Summary. The paper assembles a hand-collected dataset of 39 publicly listed firms that hold Bitcoin on their balance sheets and studies the daily return linkages between these equities and BTC over April 2023–April 2025. It reports same-day correlations (mean 0.29), single-factor BTC betas (mean 0.62, with 12 firms above 1 and MSTR at 1.37), and transfer-entropy (TE) estimates at one-day lag. The headline claim is that BTC 'consistently acts as the dominant information driver' for these equities, with reverse information flow rare and event-specific. The rolling TE analysis is performed for MSTR only, and the paper concludes that MSTR functions largely as a leveraged BTC vehicle. The authors provide code for reproduction.

Significance. If the central dominance claim were fully supported, the paper would make a useful empirical contribution to the literature on crypto–equity integration and on the risk profile of BTC-treasury firms. The dataset is a valuable resource, and the combination of correlation, beta, and TE measures is sensible. The paper also ships reproducible code and uses a standard, well-established TE estimator, which are clear strengths. However, the full-sample TE evidence does not establish that BTC is the dominant information driver for the 39-firm sample: the significance counts in Table 5 are nearly symmetric (7 against 6), the global mean TE difference is 0.0007 bits with overlapping standard deviations, and the asymmetry appears only in the MSTR rolling analysis. The single-firm result is interesting but does not support the cross-sectional generalization in the abstract. The time-zone misalignment of daily closing prices is an additional threat to the directional claim. These issues are fixable by reframing the claims or adding cross-firm evidence, so the paper merits a major revision.

major comments (4)
  1. [§5.1, Appendix C, Table 5] The full-sample TE results do not support the statement that 'BTC consistently acts as the dominant information driver' for the 39 sampled equities. At the paper's own significance thresholds (*: 0.05<p<0.1, **: p≤0.05), Table 5 lists 7 firms with significant TE(BTC→X) (MSTR, CLSK, LMFA, SATO.V, RUM, 0434.HK, GNS) and 6 firms with significant TE(X→BTC) (HIVE, CLSK, CAN, CIFR, 0434.HK, AKER.OL). The global means differ by 0.0007 bits (0.0151 vs 0.0144) with cross-sectional standard deviations of 0.0066 and 0.0060, so the means are well within one standard deviation of each other. Because the empirical p-values from Eq. (5) are computed over 78 tests without any multiple-comparison correction, the expected number of false positives at the 10% level is about 7.8, which is close to the observed counts. This evidence is consistent with near-symmetric or null information flow in the full sample, not with BTC dominance. Please either restrict the dominance claim to MSTR or provide cross-firm evidence that survives multiple-testing correction.
  2. [§5.3, Figure 7] The rolling TE analysis, which shows a clear asymmetry (410 significant windows for BTC→MSTR vs 179 for MSTR→BTC), is computed for MSTR alone. The abstract and introduction extrapolate this single-firm result to the whole sample ('Transfer entropy analysis consistently identifies BTC as the dominant information driver'). The paper does not aggregate rolling TE over the 39 firms, and Table 5 shows that the full-sample asymmetry is not present at the aggregate level. Please either remove the cross-firm generalization or add a cross-sectional rolling analysis (e.g., mean TE difference and significant-window counts for all 39 firms) to support it.
  3. [§3, §5.1] The dataset uses daily closing prices from yfinance for firms trading on different exchanges and in different time zones (e.g., 0434.HK in Hong Kong, 3350.T in Tokyo, AKER.OL in Oslo, ISP.MI in Milan) along with BTC's 24/7 price. A one-day lag in return series can reflect nonsynchronous trading hours rather than genuine information flow: a stock's daily close may react to BTC movements from a different calendar day, and the direction of the resulting lagged correlation depends on the exchange's trading hours relative to UTC. The lagged correlations and TE estimates in §5.1 and Table 5 are therefore potentially biased. Please provide a robustness check that aligns observations in a common time frame (e.g., using BTC returns measured over the same local trading session) or explicitly justify that the one-day lag captures information flow for all sampled exchanges.
  4. [§5.1, Eq. (5)] The TE significance testing is performed independently for each of the 78 directional tests, and the reported p-values are not adjusted for multiple comparisons. With a 10% test level, one expects roughly 7.8 significant results by chance across 78 tests, close to the observed 7 and 6 counts. The paper should report FDR- or family-wise-corrected p-values, or at a minimum discuss why the uncorrected counts are not treated as evidence of asymmetry. Without this, the full-sample TE significance counts in Table 5 cannot be used to support the dominance claim.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Abstract and Introduction] The abstract states that TE 'consistently identifies BTC as the dominant information driver' without mentioning that the asymmetry is established only for MSTR in the rolling analysis. The conclusion (§6) is appropriately MSTR-focused, so the abstract should be aligned with the evidence actually presented.
  2. [Appendix A, Table 3] The table is labeled 'T able 3 continued' and 'T able 3' in the text, and the footnote formatting is inconsistent. Please correct the captions and ensure the table renders as a single table.
  3. [§5.2, Figure 6] The classification of firms into three groups is described after the figure, and the legend does not show the group boundaries explicitly. Adding clear labels or shaded regions for the three groups would improve readability.
  4. [§5.3] The rolling TE windows are described as 252 trading days with daily stride, but the text does not state the effective number of independent windows or how serial overlap affects the interpretation of the 31.6% vs 13.8% significance rates. A short discussion of this would help.
  5. [§5.1, Table 2] The summary statistics for TE report means and standard deviations but no confidence intervals. Given the small differences, reporting bootstrap or shuffle-based confidence intervals for the mean difference would make the result more informative.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: the paper is an empirical measurement study with no derivation that reduces to its own inputs.

full rationale

The paper performs an empirical measurement exercise: it assembles a sample of 39 BTC-holding firms, computes Pearson correlations, single-factor regressions, and transfer entropy estimates, and then interprets the resulting statistics. There is no fitted parameter that is later relabeled as a prediction, and no equation in the derivation chain is defined in terms of the quantity it purports to establish. The transfer entropy estimator in Eqs. 2-5 is a standard conditional-mutual-information measure evaluated on the data, with significance assessed by permutation surrogates; the claimed directionality is an empirical output, not a mathematical consequence of the method's definition. The single-factor beta in Eq. 6 is a regression slope, and statements such as beta = 1.37 for MSTR are direct estimates, not predictions from those estimates. Self-citations appear in the literature review and methodology references, but none is load-bearing for the central claim: the transfer-entropy framework is standard and implemented via the R package RTransferEntropy, and the paper does not invoke any uniqueness theorem or prior ansatz from the authors to force its conclusions. The main concern with the paper is interpretive rather than circular: the full-sample TE counts in Table 5 are nearly balanced (7 significant BTC-to-stock flows versus 6 significant stock-to-BTC flows at the 10% level), while the pronounced asymmetry comes from the rolling MSTR-only analysis in Section 5.3, so the headline claim that BTC 'consistently acts as the dominant information driver' overstates the aggregate evidence. Sample selection based on BTC holdings also makes positive same-day correlation partly mechanical, but this is a sample-selection and interpretation issue, not circular reasoning. Because no central claim reduces by construction to its inputs, the circularity score is 0.

Assumptions & free parameters 4 free parameters · 4 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The paper introduces no new theoretical entities, forces, or conserved quantities. Its central estimates depend only on standard statistical models and a few hand-chosen methodological parameters (sample thresholds, window length, lag, significance levels). The main burden is on the assumption that daily return timing is comparable across global exchanges, which is unstated.

free parameters (4)
  • Sample selection thresholds
    Firms are included if they hold >700 BTC, or have market cap >$1B, or hold BTC worth >50% of market cap (Section 3). These thresholds are chosen by hand and determine the sample composition, which directly affects all measured correlations and betas.
  • Rolling TE window length = 252 trading days
    The rolling transfer-entropy analysis in Section 5.3 uses a 252-day window with daily stride. The choice of window length affects temporal resolution and the number of significant windows.
  • TE lag = 1 day
    Transfer entropy is computed with a one-day lag throughout the paper. Directional conclusions could change with different lag choices, especially given the lower frequency of daily data.
  • Significance thresholds = 10% and 5%
    The rolling TE uses a 10% significance level, and Table 5 uses stars for 5% and 10%. These thresholds are chosen without multiple-testing correction across the 39 firms.
assumptions (4)
  • standard math Shannon entropy and conditional mutual information definitions for transfer entropy
    Equations (2) and (3) in Section 4 rely on standard information-theoretic definitions, which are accepted background.
  • domain assumption Wiener-Granger causality interpretation: past returns of one series improve prediction of another
    Section 4 states that transfer entropy is interpreted under the Wiener-Granger causality framework, which assumes that observed lagged dependencies reflect causal influence rather than confounding.
  • domain assumption The shuffling surrogate procedure produces a valid null distribution
    Section 4, Equation (5) assumes that independently reshuffling the driver series destroys temporal dependence while preserving marginal distributions, so that the empirical p-value is valid.
  • domain assumption Daily returns are stationary enough for rolling window estimation
    The rolling 252-day windows implicitly assume that the return distribution and dependence structure are stable within each window, which is questionable during high-volatility crypto regimes.

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This paper investigates the evolving link between cryptocurrency and equity markets in the context of the recent wave of corporate Bitcoin (BTC) treasury strategies. We assemble a dataset of 39 publicly listed firms holding BTC, from their first acquisition through April 2025. Using daily logarithmic returns, we first document significant positive co-movements via Pearson correlations and single factor model regressions, discovering an average BTC beta of 0.62, and isolating 12 companies, including Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy, MSTR), exhibiting a beta exceeding 1. We then classify firms into three groups reflecting their exposure to BTC, liquidity, and return co-movements. We use transfer entropy (TE) to capture the direction of information flow over time. Transfer entropy analysis consistently identifies BTC as the dominant information driver, with brief, announcement-driven feedback from stocks to BTC during major financial events. Our results highlight the critical need for dynamic hedging ratios that adapt to shifting information flows. These findings provide important insights for investors and managers regarding risk management and portfolio diversification in a period of growing integration of digital assets into corporate treasuries.

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Figure 1. Red vertical lines mark key events in the BTC market timeline. Figure 1a: distribution of first [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. summarises the intensity of BTC acquisition activity across the 39 companies in our sample: 5 of them executed only a single purchase, and 13 conducted two to four discrete transactions. The majority (21 of them) – including several crypto-native miners – undertook five or more separate purchases, signalling an active approach to balance sheet accumulation [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. The box plot displays the distribution of BTC holdings among the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: BTC price (in orange), MSTR price (in blue), and cumulative BTC holdings (in green). [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_4.png]
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Single factor model of MSTR daily returns on BTC (Apr [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_5.png]
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Figure 6. Figure 6: BTC and equity return correlations with exposure and liquidity indicators for [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_6.png]
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Rolling 252 day TE between BTC and MSTR (August 2021 to April 2025). The chart plots one day lagged TE estimated in a 252 trading day rolling window, obtained with 1000 permutations. The blue line depicts information flow from MSTR returns to BTC returns (MSTR → BTC), …

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