Today, MicroStrategy is the largest holder of bitcoins among publicly traded companies. The giant now owns 386,700 coins with $21.9 billion invested.

As of now, the amount is estimated at 36.7 billion, and it is more than the total result of all other companies.

Ranking of public companies by the number of accumulated bitcoins

Michael Saylor himself reported in early August that he personally owns more than a billion dollars worth of BTC. Accordingly, due to the growth of the cryptocurrency’s rate in recent weeks, this amount has increased significantly.

The above arguments quite explain why exactly Saylor decided to address the Microsoft management.

MicroStrategy co-founder Michael Saylor

Firstly, he believes in the future of Bitcoin and knows the benefits of cryptocurrency in practice. Secondly, MicroStrategy’s tens of billions of dollars invested in BTC has proven to be an extremely successful investment.

But how exactly did Saylor describe the benefits of investing in crypto?

Why you should buy Bitcoin

Michael made his presentation to Microsoft’s board of directors and CEO Satya Nadella. Accordingly, everything was conducted at the highest level.

Michael Saylor is a former MicroStrategy executive

Saylor began his presentation with the assertion that “Microsoft can’t afford to miss the next wave of technology development.”

As you can see from the first slide of the presentation, Michael sees Bitcoin as the seventh such phenomenon after personal computing, graphical user interface, the internet, mobile and cloud computing, and artificial intelligence.

The first slide of Michael Saylor’s presentation to Microsoft executives

The MicroStrategy representative called Bitcoin a “2 trillion dollar force” and the seventh largest asset in the world. At the same time, it has already made history as the fastest growing asset.

The entrepreneur believes that the biggest transformation of the 21st century is the transformation of capital, and Bitcoin represents digital capital.

Here is Michael’s full presentation. We recommend watching it to better understand what’s going on.

Saylor called on Microsoft executives to convert the giant’s cash flow, dividend payments, and share and debt buybacks into Bitcoin. Here’s his rejoinder, as quoted by Cointelegraph.

If you do that, the share price will go up hundreds of dollars. You will be able to create trillions of dollars of market value for the company. You will eliminate risk to your shareholders.


Note that today MSFT shares are valued at $423, while the company's market capitalisation is $3.18 trillion. That is, Saylor expects the listed figures to grow by tens of per cent if the giant switches to the Bitcoin standard.

Microsoft’s stock price changes in 2024

Why should Microsoft buy and hold bitcoins instead of buying back its own stocks and bonds? Here’s Sailor’s rejoinder on the subject from The Block.

Over the past five years, you’ve lost hundreds of billions of dollars in capital and only increased the risks your shareholders face. If you want to break that cycle, you need an asset with no counterparty risk.

According to Saylor, public and political support for Bitcoin is only growing now. What’s next is a period of so-called cryptocurrency renaissance, i.e. niche revival.

The reason for this is the recent victory of Donald Trump in the US presidential election, who has repeatedly promised to approve adequate regulation of digital assets and turn America into the cryptocurrency capital of the world.

Newly elected US President Donald Trump at a Pubkey bar

What is especially important, the majority in Congress will be occupied by Republicans, who are characterised by a positive attitude towards digital assets against the background of Democrats. Which means the chances of approving adequate bills in relation to the crypto market will actually become greater.

As a result, Saylor urged Microsoft representatives to invest $100 billion in Bitcoin annually. According to him, it makes much more sense to buy Bitcoin instead of your own stocks, and to hold cryptocurrency instead of bonds. Here’s his quote.

What if you could buy a $100 billion company that’s growing faster than Microsoft for just one year’s revenue? And what if you could do that every year?

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella

Sailor ended his speech with the following sentence.

It’s time for Microsoft to consider its strategic options for BTC. Do the right thing for the world – embrace Bitcoin.

Note that now Bitcoin looks more attractive than ever. Still, at the end of November 2024, the cryptocurrency has grown in value by 37 per cent.

Changes in the value of Bitcoin by month

Well, in the dollar equivalent, the growth was 26 thousand, which was the best result of the cryptocurrency on the scale of the month. In other words, it has never grown so sharply before.

That being said, MicroStrategy is sure to continue buying bitcoins even further. Over the weekend, Michael Saylor published a chart of the BTC giant’s BTC purchases and stated that it shows an imbalance between blue and green colours.

Thus, he hints at the need to increase the number of green dots, which are used to mark the crypto’s acquisitions.

MicroStrategy’s bitcoin purchases on the graph


Michael Saylor's presentation was short and to the point, well, the arguments for bitcoin purchases seem convincing. However, this doesn't mean that Microsoft will start investing huge sums in BTC. However, the board of directors has already been recommended to reject the proposal, and crypto is still perceived as a volatile asset necessary to break the law because of its active criticism in the past. Therefore, success here is not guaranteed.

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