In this latest episode featuring Michael Saylor, Executive Chairman of MicroStrategy, we discuss:
– The impact of the election on the future of Bitcoin and the broader crypto industry
– Michael vision for digital assets and regulation: Cryptocurrencies, Stablecoins, Tokens
– America’s Manifest Destiny: Expanding dominance to cyberspace via a U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve
– The success of MicroStrategy as a Bitcoin Treasury Company and $MSTR Stock outperforming everything
– Bitcoin as Digital Capital vs. a Digital Currency
– Lightning Round: What does Michael wish he knew more about? His earliest memory? What’s misunderstood about him?

Interview shot by @ZIMO Media

Bio: Michael Saylor is an American entrepreneur, executive, inventor, author, and philanthropist. He is co-founder and Executive Chairman of MicroStrategy (MSTR), a publicly traded business intelligence firm founded in 1989. Michael is an advocate for the Bitcoin Standard www.hope.com and is the first CEO of a publicly listed company to make a long-term investment in Bitcoin. He founded and serves as the trustee for the Saylor Academy www.saylor.org — a non-profit providing free education around the world.

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🗒️ IN THIS EPISODE:
00:00 Bitcoin price jump, Red Wave
2:57 Trump on Bitcoin
9:13 Bitdeer Technologies Group
10:08 Saylor’s message to Democrats
11:45 US Strategic Bitcoin Reserve
28:03 Digital capital vs. digital currency
39:45 Casa, Speed Wallet
40:39 Coinkite, The Bitcoin Way
41:24 Crypto Renaissance
58:52 Empowerment through Bitcoin
1:00:09 MicroStrategy
1:13:36 “You can’t buy Bitcoin fast enough.”
1:27:37 Learning about genetics, life
1:30:33 Michael Saylor is an engineer
1:32:44 Michael Saylor’s earliest memory
1:34:46 Not everyone will win with Bitcoin

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