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Parasites_6102 | 7 months ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +2 
 Saylor can go on news interviews and use fancy words there. He can also use accounting tricks to manipulate his stock price for short run, which I don’t think is gonna end well. But the fact of the matter is that his business model has already been destroyed by the ETF’s.
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Eye Reply. | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I'm no Saylor fanboi but what makes you think that, re the ETF's🤔??
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William B Travis | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 How has his business model been destroyed by the ETFs? He uses his corporate value to buy bitcoin, which increases his corporate value. In all likelihood, MSTR will become the most valuable company in the world when bitcoin hits $1m based entirely on its bitcoin holdings.
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Parasites_6102 | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 MSTR is issuing stocks and debt to buy bitcoin, which means that those bitcoin belongs to MSTR stock and bond holders. Before ETF’s it was a proxy to get access to bitcoin so his model worked. 
Now there is no point in buying or holding MSTR as ETF’s are much more superior than a company stocks. It’s more better collateral than a company’s stock. 
Saylors infinite money glitch model only works if people keeps on buying his stocks and bonds, that’s the reason he keeps on shilling his company on news interviews. I haven’t seen any billionaire going on news interview that much.
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William B Travis | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 There is no maintenance cost with his stock vs the ETFs fees. I'd rather buy and hold bitcoin myself, but I'm far more interested in the example Saylor is setting for companies than the ETFs, which are yield harvest structures for the companies selling them.