{"id":78317,"date":"2025-05-14T14:47:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T14:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/michael-saylors-40bn-bitcoin-bet-ft-film\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T14:47:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T14:47:27","slug":"michael-saylors-40bn-bitcoin-bet-ft-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/michael-saylors-40bn-bitcoin-bet-ft-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Saylor&#8217;s $40bn bitcoin bet | FT Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crypto evangelist Michael Saylor has transformed Strategy from a loss-making software company into the world&#8217;s largest corporate holder of bitcoin. <!--more--> The FT unpacks what some investors have dubbed Saylor&#8217;s &#8216;infinite money glitch&#8217;, and questions whether it can survive a crypto crash<\/p>\n<p>#michaelsaylor #Strategy #Bitcoin #Crypto<\/p>\n<p>00:00 &#8211; Introduction<br \/>\n02:24 &#8211; The FT stock-picking blunder<br \/>\n03:59 &#8211; The bitcoin proxy explained<br \/>\n06:23 &#8211; Trump-inspired bitcoin bull market<br \/>\n07:27 &#8211; Premium to net asset value explained<br \/>\n08:41 &#8211; Buying on the rip<br \/>\n10:45 &#8211; Accretion not dilution<br \/>\n12:34 &#8211; The infinite money glitch<br \/>\n14:55 &#8211; Reasons for and against bitcoin<br \/>\n17:53 &#8211; Tariff-inspired bitcoin dip<br \/>\n18:35 &#8211; FTX and the recovery<br \/>\n19:51 &#8211; Strategy&#8217;s long-term debt and liquidity<br \/>\n20:55 &#8211; New products, new money<br \/>\n23:01 &#8211; The leap of faith<br \/>\n26:04 &#8211; The upshot<\/p>\n<p>\u25ba Enjoying FT content? Get a daily slice of the very best FT journalism with FT Edit. Free for 30 days then just \u00a34.99 a month<\/p>\n<p>See if you get the FT for free as a student (<a href=\"http:\/\/ft.com\/schoolsarefree\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/ft.com\/schoolsarefree<\/a>) or start a \u00a31 trial: <a href=\"https:\/\/subs.ft.com\/spa3_trial?segmentId=3d4ba81b-96bb-cef0-9ece-29efd6ef2132.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/subs.ft.com\/spa3_trial?segmentId=3d4ba81b-96bb-cef0-9ece-29efd6ef2132.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u25ba Check out our Community tab for more stories: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/<\/a>@FinancialTimes\/community<br \/>\n\u25ba  Listen to our podcasts: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/podcasts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.ft.com\/podcasts<\/a><br \/>\n\u25ba  Follow us on Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/financialtimes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/financialtimes<\/a><br \/>\n\u25ba  Follow us on Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/<\/a>@financialtimes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crypto evangelist Michael Saylor has transformed Strategy from a loss-making software company into the world&#8217;s largest corporate holder of bitcoin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}