Michael Saylor: De ce să intri în Bitcoin în august 2010 a fost mișcarea potrivită pentru firma noastră

Într-un interviu recent cu Daniela Cambone, Editor-at-Large și Anchor at Stansberry Research, Michael Saylor, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Nasdaq-listed business intelligence company MicroStrategy Inc. (NASDAQ: MSTR) addressed his critics.

Merită să ne amintim că pe 11 august 2020, MicroStrategy a anunțat prin intermediul a comunicatul de presă că a „cumpărat 21,454 de bitcoin la un preț total de achiziție de 250 de milioane de dolari” pentru a fi folosit ca „activ principal de rezervă de trezorerie”.

Michael Saylor (the company’s Co-Founder, Chairman, and CEO) said at the time:

Decizia noastră de a investi în Bitcoin în acest moment a fost determinată parțial de o confluență de factori macro care afectează peisajul economic și de afaceri, care credem că creează riscuri pe termen lung pentru programul nostru de trezorerie corporativă - riscuri care ar trebui abordate în mod proactiv.

Since then MicroStrategy has continued to accumulate Bitcoin and its CEO has become one of Bitcoin’s most vocal advocates. MicroStrategy’s latest $BTC purchase, which Saylor tweeted about on June 29, means that the firm is now HODLing around 129,699 bitcoins, which were “acquired for ~$3.98 billion at an average price of ~$30,664 per bitcoin.”

During an interview with Cambone that was released on YouTube on Friday (August 12), Saylor said:

Conventional critics and conventional mainstream analysts — they don’t get the crypto economy, they don’t understand Bitcoin, and they hate volatility. And those are the people that would tell you ‘take all your money, put it in a bank account yielding 1% interest, just don’t lose it, and don’t bother us’.

But when we embrace the Bitcoin strategy we did, we knew that if we held our cash in a bank account, it was going to lose 20% of its purchasing power per year, and it has as predicted. The money supply expanded by 40%: single family homes in the U.s. have increased in price by 40%. If you had 500 million dollars, it would have bought you 40% less today than it would have bought you two years ago.

So we had to do something for our shareholders at the time. And that something was buy high quality digital property. And our choice was: we could suffer a non-volatile slow death, or we could get on a bumpy lifeboat — a big orange lifeboat, the Bitcoin lifeboat — and we are going to get tossed around in the ocean, but we’re going to float and we’re going to appreciate over time.

And when I started buying this stuff, Bitcoin was $9,000-$10,000 a coin, and we’ve just been consistently accumulating Bitcoin. We have not sold any Bitcoin. And if you’re a short time horizon person and you want to look at making a trade in the past three months or six months, just about every everything you could have bought in the world in the past six months is a losing trade if you have a short enough time frame, but if you have a two-year time frame, Bitcoin’s winning. It’s winning over four years. It’s winning over six years. It’s winning over eight years. And I just like to be in business more than two years from now. So that’s why we did it.