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$MSTR Shocking interview from Channel 4 News. When someone of Michael Saylorâs stature, especially given a busy conference schedule, takes the time to sit with you for an interview, the minimum expectation is that heâs allowed to fully answer questions without constant interruption. A number of these segments gave the impression that thereâs a limited interest in engaging with the underlying thesis of the asset or understanding whatâs actually being built, and instead more focus is placed on the sensational cut. They released a 4 min clip of Michael Saylor that mainly highlighted moments of interruption, which clearly shows him getting frustrated, even though the reporter herself mentioned at the start that they had sat for an hour. This is also a broader pattern that has come up before, including coverage from the Financial Times on Strategy and some of its investors. Despite what were reportedly long and detailed conversations, the final edit often came from a fairly narrow lens. Jeff Walton was portrayed in a way that framed him as irrational rather than actually engaging with why he took the bet in the first place. Hopefully Saylorâs PR team takes note of how some of these networks operate and becomes more selective about where they allocate time going forward, because it often doesnât feel like the goal here is understanding. $BTC $MSTR $STRC
Zaid đ§141,856 views ⢠1 month ago

$MSTR It looks increasingly likely that some Bitcoin has been sold to help fund the upcoming $STRC dividend payment on May 31st. And honestly, if youâve been following the company closely, this shouldnât come as a surprise. Both Saylor and Phong have repeatedly hinted since the earnings call that Bitcoin sales were now part of the companyâs available capital allocation levers. Given that $MSTR hasnât exactly been trading in strength, utilizing some of the unrealized tax losses tied to higher-cost-basis Bitcoin purchases, while that window still exists, actually makes a lot of sense. (Credit to âżitcoin âżeliever whoâs put out extensive work predicting this) Personally, I think itâs a good decision. It shows the evolution of the company and its willingness to actively utilize another lever from its evolving playbook, which ultimately only strengthens its capital market operations over time. That said, if a Bitcoin sale is officially announced next week, shareholders should probably prepare for the narrative that follows. The headlines will inevitably paint it negatively. The bears will claim itâs over. And X will most certainly become a colorful place for a couple weeks. But nothing changes fundamentally. The company is still well on its way to becoming the largest Bitcoin holder on the planet and remains on track to approach the 1 million mark sometime this year. Interesting times ahead. $BTC $MSTR $STRC
Zaid đ§98,646 views ⢠3 months ago

$MSTR âMy investment thesis is you buy technology companies that have a dominant place in their industry that are going to eat everything, and then you just wait.â - Michael Saylor If you embraced Saylorâs bet in 2020, sat through the volatility, and ignored the general advice along the way, youâve achieved an annualized return most investors would dream of. Strategy despite two 70â80% drawdowns, has still compounded at 41% annually since adopting the Bitcoin Standard, outperforming Bitcoin itself over the same period. That bet started with 21,454 BTC acquired for $250 million. Today, it stands at 843,775 BTC, representing 4% of the entire Bitcoin network. If you believe Bitcoin remains the dominant monetary network, Strategy now owns roughly 20Ă more Bitcoin than the worldâs second largest corporate holder. And while Bitcoin has spent much of this year under pressure, Strategy has still accumulated roughly 4Ă the entire treasury of the worldâs second largest corporate holder, through its upgraded capital acquisition engine in $STRC I understand why Michael doesnât spend much time asking for advice. Whether you agree with every decision or not, heâs spent six years executing one thesis with remarkable consistency. Mission Strategy. $BTC $MSTR $STRC
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$MSTR âOccasionally we will take a slight dilution in Bitcoin per share to improve the credit worthiness of the company.â In the past two days, the combined impressions across Saylorâs signal, Phongâs follow up, and Mondayâs announcement crossed 17.5 MILLION! Love it or hate it, the attention Strategy commands is second to none. Post the announcement, skeptics were quick to point out that the acquisition, combined with the replenishment of the USD reserve, was slightly dilutive to Bitcoin per share. Michael Saylor came out today addressing that directly, reminding the market to look at the entire capital stack and not just one KPI in isolation. Those who have followed this company long enough already understand this. The BTC yield quarter to date is 9.7%. Year to date it sits at 12.8%, tracking toward the 22.8% projection by year end. Not a single quarter has produced a negative Bitcoin per share result. So when you look at yesterdayâs transaction in isolation, it tells you very little about the direction this company is actually heading. What it does tell you is that management is doing exactly what it should be doing. Balancing the interests of the credit instruments, the common shareholders, and the long term scaling of $STRC, which remains the most important lever for the companyâs future growth. An occasional dilutive transaction in service of all of that is not something long term shareholders should lose sleep over. The speculation that surrounds moves like this is a net positive too. Every week that Strategy dominates the conversation, more eyes land on the thesis. More skeptics read the dashboards and find themselves having to reckon with what is actually being built here. âAttention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.â - Simone Weil In this space, it is also the most powerful form of validation. $BTC $MSTR $STRC
Zaid đ§47,335 views ⢠2 months ago

$MSTR Kudos to Coffeezilla for actually getting on a live call with Jeff Walton after making his accusations about digital credit products and the Strategy model. And a massive shout out to Jeff for being extraordinarily composed throughout. Thatâs where the credit ends. This conversation is a clear example of what happens when influencers jump on a trend without doing the work. Without running the math. Without approaching the topic with even a baseline level of humility. Coffeezilla has built a remarkable career exposing scams. That is genuinely valuable work, and nobody should take that away from him. But there is a significant difference between digging through documentation to expose bad actors and deciding to go against the thesis of someone who has innovated this entire space and thought about it day and night, and then entering a live unedited conversation with someone who has studied and built upon that very thesis in professional practice. Michael Saylor has been publicly advocating for Bitcoin for over five years. The dashboards are public. The thesis is public. The math is public. The entire capital structure has been laid out in exhaustive detail across hundreds of keynotes, interviews, and earnings calls. To assume that reading into all of that in a day, then doubling down with broad public accusations about the model not being viable, is extremely shortsighted. And for someone with millions of followers, it is irresponsible. What this conversation made evidently clear is that when you go up against people who have built their entire professional lives on math and objective reasoning, opinions are not enough. Strategy is trying to improve the credit market. Trying to give retirees a fighting chance. Trying to innovate in a space where there is no easy alternative path. Doing it transparently, mathematically, and with full confidence in what they have built. That deserves curiosity. Not a camera and a hot take. I am genuinely skeptical this entire video sees the light of day on his channel. Once again, Jeff was exceptional. $BTC $MSTR $STRC
Zaid đ§62,303 views ⢠3 months ago

$MSTR Itâs earnings call day. The slides will be interesting. The Q&A will be interesting. But nothing beats Saylor going off script for five minutes and giving us another legendary quote to remember. The Champions League of corporate earnings calls. Mission: Strategy. $BTC $MSTR $STRC
Zaid đ§16,615 views ⢠27 days ago

$MSTR âI like the fact that people donât understand it, donât agree with it, or are afraid of it. Because I couldnât afford to buy it if they all agreed with me.â âWhen my niece told me she was buying Apple stock in the year 2020⌠Iâm like okay, I think I missed that boat.ââ âMichael Saylor Thereâs a reason why 99.99% of the people in the world arenât billionaires. They simply lack patience and conviction. Most founders eventually sell. Most investors chase the next opportunity. Most people abandon a thesis long before it has time to play out. Michael Saylor has led Strategy since 1989. It took more than 30 years to build the company into roughly a $1 billion business. The next chapter took it from $1 billion to over $50 billion in under six years. People often focus on the acceleration. They rarely appreciate the decades of patience that made it possible. When someone who has spent a lifetime playing the long game tells you heâs willing to wait another 10 years, itâs worth paying attention. Stay focused. Mission Strategy. $BTC $MSTR $STRC
Zaid đ§27,213 views ⢠1 month ago

$MSTR Saifedean is a great thinker, but heâs an ideologue. And the problem with ideologues is they model the future based on past patterns, without accounting for the most disruptive variable of all: changing technology. Saifedeanâs world is one where, under a Bitcoin standard, time preference naturally falls. People accumulate hard money, they become patient, credit disappears, and humanity converges on a purely equity-based system. Itâs elegant. But it assumes a version of human rationality that technology is actively dismantling in real time. Look around you. The defining trend of the last decade has been the opposite of patience. Instant delivery. Reels over essays. Fast food over cooking. Two-day shipping became same-day. Same-day became one hour. The most consumed content format on earth is a fifteen-second video. Artificial intelligence is accelerating this further, removing every remaining friction between want and fulfillment. The world is not trending towards lower time preference. It is trending towards zero patience at scale⌠What Saylor understood that Saifedean hasnât is that real capital markets require you to look at the world the way it is. Bitcoin is a long-horizon, zero-yield, maximum-patience asset living inside a civilization that is becoming structurally more short-term by the day⌠Most people will never hold Bitcoin. Most of them have rent due, mortgages to pay, and no bandwidth to understand monetary debasement. They need yield now. They need capital now. Saylorâs answer to that has been to build a bridge. $MSTR pulls in the long-term thinkers (Institutions, the Bitcoin maximalists with decade-long conviction) and uses their capital as a foundation to issue products that meet everyone else where they are. The most popular of Strategyâs preferred instruments ($STRC) pays monthly rather than quarterly. And the demand of late is pushing it now towards semi-monthly. This is Saylor reading the market correctly. $STRC went from zero to $8 billion in under a year, filling a massive structural gap in the market. Saifedean is right that Bitcoin changes money. But heâs wrong that it changes human nature. As long as there are people with capital and people who need it, and technology keeps compressing time horizons, there will be credit. There will be yield. There will be instruments that meet people where they are. An ideologue dreams of the world he wants. The capitalist builds for the world that exists. Saylor is the capitalist. $BTC $MSTR $STRC
Zaid đ§36,461 views ⢠4 months ago

$MSTR How does Strategy defend the peg on $STRC if a large seller were to dump? The answer was remarkably simple. The instrument defends itself. That is the design. If you want the best takeaway from todayâs call, itâs probably Michael Saylor explaining the mechanics of defending $STRC in the video below. Itâs something I had thought about often. But it is incredible how Saylor manages to simplify it and make it make complete sense. As long as Strategy maintains its consistency and its focus on $STRC as its flagship product, the instrument remains remarkably stable. And the reason is the relationships and the pools of capital that surround it. If a large seller pulls $STRC below the peg on any given day, that creates an opportunity for a hedge fund to step in and capture the move back up, knowing Strategy will deploy its resources to restore it. And all of this happens while retail interest continues to pour in from buyers who are not here to hedge. Every large seller is met with another buyer who sees value. The capital base only grows wider over time. This should tell Strategy investors exactly why the company has placed $STRC at the front of everything it does. It now understands just how rigid and stable this instrument is built to be. The more you understand the design, the harder it is to bet against it. $BTC $MSTR $STRC
Zaid đ§27,390 views ⢠3 months ago

$MSTR âI have an idea for $30 trillion.â âWe have $60 billion of capital. We could buy anything.â - Michael Saylor $STRC is the multi-trillion-dollar idea. Itâs the product Strategy is here to build. Itâs also why investing in this company requires a genuinely long time horizon. $STRC has already attracted over $10 billion of capital, but if management is right, itâs still in the very early stages of its journey. Each year of consistent execution, each expansion into the credit markets, and each disciplined capital allocation decision strengthens the structure. As long as the company remains focused on accumulating Bitcoin and strengthening digital credit, I donât believe there is a more compelling idea for management to pursue. This is the strategy. This is the multi-trillion-dollar bet. This is what youâre ultimately investing in. Mission Strategy. $BTC $MSTR $STRC
Zaid đ§16,422 views ⢠1 month ago

$MSTR Itâs been four years since Saylor stood on that stage at the Atlas Society and said: âBuild the bridge, go stand out in the middle of the bridge, show people itâs not going to break. If itâs good for $100M, itâs good for a Billion ⌠and if itâs good for a billion, we might as well go for 4 billionâ Since then⌠they didnât just stand on the bridge-theyâve kept building it. Tens of billions raised. Multiple cycles endured. The company is still standing. The bridge is as strong as ever. This morning, another $42B plan has been announced. At some point, youâve got to wake up and see this isnât an experiment anymore. This is execution. This is a man on a mission thatâs turning his conviction into reality. Keep fading him⌠or go stand on the bridge yourself.. #BTC #STRC #MSTR
Zaid đ§38,112 views ⢠5 months ago

$MSTR With the current weakness across Strategyâs securities and Bitcoin itself, now might be a good time to revisit how management is likely thinking through the coming weeks. A few things stand out. ⢠The June 30th $STRC dividend obligation is coming up. ⢠While $STRC remains well below the $100 mark, management will likely be working on ways to strengthen the instrument while building on the USD reserve, as theyâve discussed. ⢠With $MSTR currently trading at roughly 0.98x mNAV and $STRC unavailable as a capital raising tool, management has an important set of decisions to make around the BTC reserves. Whatâs most interesting to me isnât necessarily which lever gets pulled. Itâs how those decisions are prioritized. Operationally, certain actions may make perfect sense while simultaneously creating a very different reaction from the market. The sale of the 32 BTC was enough to trigger widespread discussion and panic. Thatâs the reality of being one of the largest holders of the hardest asset on the planet. Every capital allocation decision becomes part of the broader market conversation. Some very interesting weeks lie ahead. Letâs see what the Strategy is. $BTC $MSTR $STRC
Zaid đ§15,329 views ⢠2 months ago

All-in on $MSTR. People call it concentration risk. I call it concentration. $BTC $MSTR $STRC
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$MSTR Saylorâs response to the Bitcoin monetization framework: âI donât think thereâs a conflict between doing the right thing for Bitcoin, doing the right thing for the equity, doing the right thing for the credit. I think those are all in a dynamic harmony with each other.â Strategy has spent years building its 847,363 BTC balance sheet. That stack exists to create optionality. When the companyâs securities become materially mispriced, Bitcoin itself becomes another capital allocation tool. $STRC shareholders donât measure success by how many Bitcoin the company buys next week. They measure managementâs ability to protect the structure, maintain confidence, and continue servicing the product over the long term. $MSTR shareholders understand something equally important. The faster Strategy can rely on $STRC as its primary capital engine, the less dependent it becomes on common equity issuance, making future Bitcoin accumulation increasingly accretive over time. These arenât competing objectives. Protecting Digital Credit protects access to capital. Access to capital grows the Bitcoin treasury. And a larger Bitcoin treasury gives management even greater flexibility to defend the structure whenever the market misprices it. Thatâs the dynamic I donât expect speculators to fully understand. Thatâs the dynamic that can take this company to a trillion. Mission Strategy. $BTC $MSTR $STRC
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