Ah, Michael Saylor, that modern-day Diogenes with a Bitcoin wallet. In a recent tête-à-tête with the estimable Jordan Bernt Peterson – a meeting of minds so profound it surely shook the very foundations of reality – Saylor deigned to explain his journey into the digital rabbit hole. A journey, mind you, paved with the anxieties of a man burdened by a Scrooge McDuckian fortune. 💰
I discuss thermodynamics, theology, and history with @JordanBPeterson — and answer a bunch of personal questions along the way.
— Michael Saylor (@saylor) June 10, 2025
The year was 2020, a vintage year for existential dread and hand sanitizer. Our hero, faced with the daunting task of parking half a billion dollars (a sum so large it could make Croesus blush), sought refuge from the economic storm. US Treasuries? Perish the thought! Saylor wouldn’t touch those IOUs with a ten-foot pole. National debt? As appealing as a tax audit. 🙅♂️
Real estate and stocks beckoned, their prices inflated like a politician’s ego, but Saylor saw through the charade. Art? He couldn’t find enough overpriced Picassos and Monets to satisfy his appetite. And gold? His lawyer, bless his soul, steered him clear of that “dead money,” languishing at a paltry $800 an ounce. Imagine! The horror! 😱
No, Saylor craved something more… *liquid*, *fungible*, an asset to cradle his “economic energy” for eternity. And so, he stumbled upon Bitcoin. Once dismissed as a “scam coin destined for oblivion,” Bitcoin underwent a Saylorian metamorphosis. YouTube tutorials, podcasts, and “The Bitcoin Standard” – the holy scriptures of the crypto faithful – transformed him. From skeptic to zealot, a conversion worthy of Saint Paul himself. 🙏
Bitcoin, according to Saylor, is “the most anti-fragile and indestructible thing in the world.” A bold claim, even for a man who probably wears a Bitcoin-themed suit. He likens it to an “ideology manifested as a protocol.” Even if quantum computers, those silicon-brained behemoths, manage to crack Bitcoin’s passwords (a prospect as terrifying as running out of coffee), they can’t touch the underlying mathematics. 🤓
It’s like hacking an email account, Saylor muses. You might steal some cat pictures, but you can’t destroy the English language. The solution? Upgrade the software, of course! Because in the world of Bitcoin, problems are merely opportunities for technological advancement… and perhaps another interview with Jordan Peterson. 😉
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2025-06-10 15:04