# Michael Terpin’s Supercycle Finance Wants a Bitcoin Treasury That Knows When to Sell

> Michael Terpin’s Supercycle Finance acquires Presearch and Hypavolt, pairing an active bitcoin treasury strategy with plans to relaunch private search.

By Lidia Yadlos · September 28, 2026

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Bitcoin treasury companies have made buying and holding a familiar corporate strategy. [Michael Terpin’s](https://michaelterpin.com/) Supercycle Finance is proposing something different: accumulate during market weakness, reduce exposure during strength and earn interest while waiting for the next opportunity.

The company announced on September 28 that it has fully acquired Presearch, including its privacy-focused search engine and peer-to-peer compute platform, Hypavolt. Alongside the acquisition, Supercycle outlined a planned bitcoin treasury strategy based on the “Four Seasons” framework in Terpin’s book, _[Bitcoin Supercycle](https://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/9781510782174/bitcoin-supercycle/)_[.](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D3FHPTP2?lv=shuf&channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallback)

The combination gives the company two ambitions: manage bitcoin through market cycles and rebuild an operating business around private search and distributed computing.

[Post from @michaelterpin on X](https://twitter.com/michaelterpin/status/1874605630704492926?s=20)

## A Bitcoin Treasury Built to Adjust

Supercycle’s proposed approach moves between bitcoin and assets such as U.S. Treasury bills, rather than maintaining the same bitcoin exposure through every market condition.

> “Most treasury companies only focus on accumulating bitcoin. We are building one that adjusts its exposure through the cycle,” said Terpin, Supercycle’s co-founder and CEO, who is scheduled to present at the Bitcoin Treasuries conference.

During weaker markets, the company plans to accumulate bitcoin. During stronger periods, it intends to reduce exposure. Between allocations, it would hold Treasury bills and other stable, interest-bearing assets.

For investors, the distinction is straightforward: the strategy’s success depends on decisions about when to buy and sell, as well as bitcoin’s longer-term performance.

[Michael Terpin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelterpin/) says the approach is designed to outperform buying bitcoin and never selling. That is an objective, not an established result. The announcement provides no performance record, allocation thresholds or detailed rules for identifying a change in market conditions.

Supercycle also acknowledges that historical bitcoin cycles may not repeat and that its strategy could underperform holding bitcoin.

## Presearch Gets a Planned Relaunch

The acquisition brings an existing search platform and community into the business. Launched in 2017, [Presearch](https://docs.presearch.io/) was designed to protect user privacy, route searches through independently operated nodes and reward participants with PRE tokens.

Supercycle plans to relaunch the service and evaluate improvements in AI-assisted search and discovery. It has not announced a relaunch date or specified which features will be available.

> “Presearch was built around a simple but powerful idea: users should have greater choice and participation in how they access information online,” said Tim Enneking, CEO of Presearch, Inc.

For existing users, the practical questions are what the relaunched service will offer and how participation will work. The announcement does not detail changes to PRE token rewards or node operations.

## Distributed Compute Is Part of the Deal

The acquisition also includes [Hypavolt](https://hypavolt.com/), a peer-to-peer CPU and GPU compute platform for AI inference—the computing involved in running AI models to produce responses.

That places search, AI discovery and distributed computing under the same ownership. The announcement does not explain how those services will be integrated or how the operating businesses will interact financially with the [bitcoin treasury.](https://bitcointreasuries.net/conference)

Co-founder and CFO Eli Ansari said Presearch gives Supercycle an established platform and community to build on. The founding team also includes chairman Keith Moore, COO Ismael Malik and CMO Jasmine Shih.

[Post from @michaelterpin on X](https://twitter.com/michaelterpin/status/2104633365051719946?s=20)

## Two Different Tests Ahead

Supercycle Finance, the operating name of Nevada-based BTC Max, LLC, is pairing an active bitcoin strategy with a search-and-compute business.

Each has a separate test. The treasury must demonstrate that adjusting exposure can justify the risk of missing a rally. Presearch must give people a reason to return to the service.

The acquisition establishes the direction. Trading results, a working relaunch and clearer operating details will show how it translates into a business.