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Michael Saylor

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PBD Podcast
MicroStrategy's Michael Saylor: Bitcoin To $13M? MicroStrategy's $4B Bitcoin Bet | PBD Podcast | Ep. 508

The people with a strong corporate view and a healthy company and a strong conviction in their company, they don't have an open mind to a profound paradigm shift. They don't want to embrace that idea.

PBD Podcast
MicroStrategy's Michael Saylor: Bitcoin To $13M? MicroStrategy's $4B Bitcoin Bet | PBD Podcast | Ep. 508

Maybe the call to Buffett could be seen as a public service and you want to be a public servant. So if you were to make that public service phone call and you guys sat down and spoke and you went to Omaha and all of a sudden he comes out and says, you know, we've made a decision to buy $100 billion of Bitcoin after my conversation with Michael Saylor. I think that's a public service.

PBD Podcast
MicroStrategy's Michael Saylor: Bitcoin To $13M? MicroStrategy's $4B Bitcoin Bet | PBD Podcast | Ep. 508

Maybe the call to Buffett could be seen as a public service and you want to be a public servant. So if you were to make that public service phone call and you guys sat down and spoke and you went to Omaha and all of a sudden he comes out and says, you know, we've made a decision to buy $100 billion of Bitcoin after my conversation with Michael Saylor. I think that's a public service.

PBD Podcast
MicroStrategy's Michael Saylor: Bitcoin To $13M? MicroStrategy's $4B Bitcoin Bet | PBD Podcast | Ep. 508

I will say for the record, I'm happy to go visit anybody that has $100 billion of cash that's sitting and burning $10 billion of shareholder value a year. I will go visit you and I will provide you with all of the information you need in order to be convinced that you should flip to the Bitcoin standard.

PBD Podcast
MicroStrategy's Michael Saylor: Bitcoin To $13M? MicroStrategy's $4B Bitcoin Bet | PBD Podcast | Ep. 508

I will say for the record, I'm happy to go visit anybody that has $100 billion of cash that's sitting and burning $10 billion of shareholder value a year. I will go visit you and I will provide you with all of the information you need in order to be convinced that you should flip to the Bitcoin standard.

PBD Podcast
MicroStrategy's Michael Saylor: Bitcoin To $13M? MicroStrategy's $4B Bitcoin Bet | PBD Podcast | Ep. 508

He's got $325 billion of it. But by the way, when I looked at the numbers with you guys, you got roughly what? Is it $331,000 if I'm not mistaken? Is that how many it is? 331,200 Bitcoins, right?

PBD Podcast
MicroStrategy's Michael Saylor: Bitcoin To $13M? MicroStrategy's $4B Bitcoin Bet | PBD Podcast | Ep. 508

He's got $325 billion of it. But by the way, when I looked at the numbers with you guys, you got roughly what? Is it $331,000 if I'm not mistaken? Is that how many it is? 331,200 Bitcoins, right?

PBD Podcast
MicroStrategy's Michael Saylor: Bitcoin To $13M? MicroStrategy's $4B Bitcoin Bet | PBD Podcast | Ep. 508

Yeah, as of this morning.

PBD Podcast
MicroStrategy's Michael Saylor: Bitcoin To $13M? MicroStrategy's $4B Bitcoin Bet | PBD Podcast | Ep. 508

Yeah, as of this morning.

PBD Podcast
MicroStrategy's Michael Saylor: Bitcoin To $13M? MicroStrategy's $4B Bitcoin Bet | PBD Podcast | Ep. 508

And I saw that BlackRock, their Bitcoin trust, the iBit iShare, has roughly 471,328 as of November 15, which is 2.2%. Yeah, they're ahead of us. I'm jealous. But here's the question I'm asking.

PBD Podcast
MicroStrategy's Michael Saylor: Bitcoin To $13M? MicroStrategy's $4B Bitcoin Bet | PBD Podcast | Ep. 508

And I saw that BlackRock, their Bitcoin trust, the iBit iShare, has roughly 471,328 as of November 15, which is 2.2%. Yeah, they're ahead of us. I'm jealous. But here's the question I'm asking.

PBD Podcast
MicroStrategy's Michael Saylor: Bitcoin To $13M? MicroStrategy's $4B Bitcoin Bet | PBD Podcast | Ep. 508

If they have 471, which is roughly 2.2% of all Bitcoin,

PBD Podcast
MicroStrategy's Michael Saylor: Bitcoin To $13M? MicroStrategy's $4B Bitcoin Bet | PBD Podcast | Ep. 508

If they have 471, which is roughly 2.2% of all Bitcoin,

PBD Podcast
MicroStrategy's Michael Saylor: Bitcoin To $13M? MicroStrategy's $4B Bitcoin Bet | PBD Podcast | Ep. 508

You got 331, which is roughly 1.5% of all Bitcoin, right? Neither one of you guys are selling. So 4% is gone, okay? Of the 21 million shares, many times you'll hear that 3 million of it people are not going to get access to, right? Whatever reason, 18 and a half million, give or take. So let's just say 18 million. So there's another 3 million gone there. So you have yours, they have theirs.

PBD Podcast
MicroStrategy's Michael Saylor: Bitcoin To $13M? MicroStrategy's $4B Bitcoin Bet | PBD Podcast | Ep. 508

You got 331, which is roughly 1.5% of all Bitcoin, right? Neither one of you guys are selling. So 4% is gone, okay? Of the 21 million shares, many times you'll hear that 3 million of it people are not going to get access to, right? Whatever reason, 18 and a half million, give or take. So let's just say 18 million. So there's another 3 million gone there. So you have yours, they have theirs.

PBD Podcast
MicroStrategy's Michael Saylor: Bitcoin To $13M? MicroStrategy's $4B Bitcoin Bet | PBD Podcast | Ep. 508

So let's just say 3, 17 million. And then you've also brought up the idea, I think the U.S. government right now, if I'm not mistaken, holds 183,000 Bitcoins at $12 billion, right? If I'm not mistaken. 183,000 Bitcoins at $12 billion. I think you've proposed the president to buy a million shares of Bitcoin, a million Bitcoins, which would be roughly $90 billion.

PBD Podcast
MicroStrategy's Michael Saylor: Bitcoin To $13M? MicroStrategy's $4B Bitcoin Bet | PBD Podcast | Ep. 508

So let's just say 3, 17 million. And then you've also brought up the idea, I think the U.S. government right now, if I'm not mistaken, holds 183,000 Bitcoins at $12 billion, right? If I'm not mistaken. 183,000 Bitcoins at $12 billion. I think you've proposed the president to buy a million shares of Bitcoin, a million Bitcoins, which would be roughly $90 billion.

PBD Podcast
MicroStrategy's Michael Saylor: Bitcoin To $13M? MicroStrategy's $4B Bitcoin Bet | PBD Podcast | Ep. 508

And if they wanted to go to the highest level, if they were to buy $6 million of it, which would be roughly half a trillion dollars, At that point, if that happens, and typically it's a buy and hold situation, if it gets to a point that most of it is locked up, what happens to the store value?

PBD Podcast
MicroStrategy's Michael Saylor: Bitcoin To $13M? MicroStrategy's $4B Bitcoin Bet | PBD Podcast | Ep. 508

And if they wanted to go to the highest level, if they were to buy $6 million of it, which would be roughly half a trillion dollars, At that point, if that happens, and typically it's a buy and hold situation, if it gets to a point that most of it is locked up, what happens to the store value?

PBD Podcast
MicroStrategy's Michael Saylor: Bitcoin To $13M? MicroStrategy's $4B Bitcoin Bet | PBD Podcast | Ep. 508

Can you put up the slide with the Bitcoin strategic reserve and the different plans there that's in that presentation? So, I mean, first of all, it's Senator Lummis, Cynthia Lummis, has put forth a proposal that the United States establish a strategic Bitcoin reserve, and it's a... It's a brilliant idea that she's presented to the Senate.