Michael Saylor's $200 Trillion Strategy: US Bitcoin Strategic Reserve and Immortality

Michael Saylor's $200 Trillion Bitcoin Strategy: BTC Dominance and Immortality in the US

Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor shares his thoughts on the US Bitcoin Strategic Reserve, why bondholders are haunted by it, and his own economic immortality.

Author: Christine Lee | Edited by: Benjamin Schiller, Steven Alpher Updated: Mar 25, 2025 14:59 UTC Published: Mar 25, 2025 14:56 UTC

What you need to know:

• Strategy Committee Chairman Michael Saylor sees Bitcoin as an asset class that could reach a value of $200 trillion by 2045, making it the global currency of exchange for the AI-driven Internet age. He believes that adopting Bitcoin as a strategic reserve in the U.S. would cement its dominance and drive global adoption.
• Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) has raised $33 billion to accumulate over 500,000 bitcoins, using innovative financial instruments such as convertible bonds and preferred stocks to grow its corporate bitcoin reserve and create a self-sustaining cycle of price appreciation.
• Saylor suggests that burning his Bitcoin savings will give him “economic immortality.”

The year is 2045. Digital assets are moving at incredible speeds. Artificial agents interact millions of times per second using Bitcoin as their primary currency. Bitcoin is now a $200 trillion asset class, serving as the basis of calculation for the AI era of the internet.

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That’s the vision of the future being built by bitcoin evangelist Michael Saylor, executive chairman of Strategy (MSTR). Saylor pioneered the field of bitcoin corporate treasury, turning his small software firm into a Nasdaq juggernaut with $85 billion in leverage.

CoinDesk recently sat down with Saylor, a staunch Bitcoin maximalist, for a two-hour interview where he shared his views on Bitcoin's global domination.

Since Donald Trump’s election as US President, Bitcoin has surged 26%, reaching a peak market cap of $2.1 trillion and an all-time high of $109,000 in January. Strategy, a Wall Street Bitcoin indicator, continues to show strength with gains of around 50%, despite falling around 30% from November highs amid a broad decline in US stocks, 10-year Treasury yields and oil prices.

The United States has changed its approach to cryptocurrency regulation, combining enforcement and stealth debanking of digital asset companies in what the industry has dubbed “Operation Chokepoint 2.0,” with the announcement that the U.S. will become a Bitcoin superpower and the crypto capital of the world. For Saylor, these dramatic changes mean that previously closed doors are opening. Governments and traditional institutional investors around the world that previously shunned digital assets are now showing interest.

Saylor mentioned that he gets invited to speak at all sorts of prestigious events: the 100 richest families in South America, Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds, Morgan Stanley's famous tech conference, CPAC, and the White House. He's gone from encouraging corporations to adopt Bitcoin as a treasury to consulting for national governments on creating Bitcoin strategic reserves.

According to him, Bitcoin has reached “space velocity”, because once the US government starts actively acquiring it, the US will become the beneficiary, forcing other countries to accept Bitcoin as global capital.

“It will be a fait accompli,” Saylor said. “It's one of those geopolitical maneuvers where when you adopt a network, you force your allies to adopt it, and then all your opponents to adopt it.”

US Bitcoin Strategic Reserve

President Trump's executive order to create the U.S. Bitcoin Strategic Reserve is a major milestone in realizing the intended purpose of Bitcoin. At one point, the U.S. owned about 400,000 Bitcoins, but sold half of them for $366 million. Trump cryptocurrency adviser David Sachs lamented that the premature sale of that Bitcoin cost U.S. taxpayers $17 billion at current

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