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Michael Saylor

Executive Chairman, Strategy Inc

Search every verified Michael Saylor interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Michael Saylor, executive chairman of Strategy, has continued to promote Bitcoin adoption and the company's expansion into digital credit products. In recent appearances, including at ParaFi Investor Day, DC Fintech Week, and the Xapo Bank Summit, Saylor described Bitcoin as "digital capital" and characterized Strategy as "the central bank of the crypto economy" or a "private central bank." He stated that Bitcoin had dipped slightly below its 200-week moving average but had since rallied roughly $20,000, adding that he believed the company was "at the beginning of the next bull run." He also cited headwinds including restrictive trade, foreign, and monetary policy, as well as capital competition from AI, while pointing to perceived tailwinds in banking adoption and U.S. regulation. Saylor discussed Strategy's digital credit instruments, including its perpetual preferred stock and the Stretch (STRC) product, which he said pays dividends and is overcollateralized with Bitcoin holdings. He stated that the company held roughly 845,000 Bitcoin worth about $70–72 billion, and he framed its operations as a structured finance company that buys or sells Bitcoin, equity, and credit as market conditions warrant. He also commented on the Clarity Act, calling it a 630-page "bill of restrictions," and said its stalling was "the best thing that could have happened" for the industry. In September 2026, Strategy proposed amending its preferred stocks to pay daily dividends, a change subject to shareholder vote in October 2026.

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“Yeah, because the company is a digital credit producer. Our product is the digital credit. So what what we're doing is we're converting capital Bitcoin 40 wall 40 ARR into five wall or in this case eight wall credit that pays you a 12% dividend. There's a pool of investors that want to buy that credit. They do not, you know, do you want to hold a volatile asset for a decade with no cash flow? Not if you've got rent. ”

“Well, you know, we've added like 160,000 Bitcoin this year. So, it's actually quite a lot of Bitcoin. We're one of the biggest buyers of Bitcoin in the world. But, you know, there is the law of large numbers that if you're starting from a billion-dollar base, you only need a billion dollars of capital to double. When you're starting from an 80 billion dollar base, you need 80 billion dollars of capital to double. So,”

“If you're a capitalist, if you want to create a great economy or a great nation, what you want is a bill of rights, not a bill of restrictions. Right? The founding fathers said we had rights. And and the Bill of Rights isn't very long, by the way. You can read it. It's on a it fits on a couple of pages. The Clarity Act was 630 pages. And it was a bill of restrictions. It was 630 pages of which probably 620 pages were”

“The way to think about capital allocation is if you need your money back, all of your principle back in the next four months, you probably just want to put it in a money market, right? because it's very stable nav. It's a safe thing. You know, next Tuesday you'll get the cash that you put in today back. If you don't need the capital for four months and maybe you want it back, you want to invest it for 4 months to fou”

“The headwinds for Bitcoin for the past year have been restrictive foreign policy, restrictive trade policy, restrictive monetary policy, and a massive gravitational field which has been sucking capital into the AI trade, a trillion dollars of capital flow. So those are the headwinds. The tailwinds and the evolving fundamentals that are helping it... as the Treasury and the Fed has to support the bond market, we're go”

“The big innovation for our company is a public company that creates its own reserve bank, okay? A private central bank. We are the central bank of the crypto economy. A public company can do it. The second big innovation is creating a digital asset that is capital, that is a commodity. Now, it turns out that the king of all commodities before digital assets was gold, because gold was the scarcest, and so the entire w”

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