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Pietre | 1 months ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +1 
 How can it be that Microstrategy's stock performance has been so much better than Bitcoin itself, being that they are basically a company that just accumulates bitcoin and continuously issue more debt to buy even more bitcoin? #asknostr
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Jose Sammut | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I think when FTX was going bust, people didn't want anything to do with Bitcoin Proxies. And since then it's recovered. 

Also they have leverage.
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StellarStoic | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 They do software also. Not just accumulation of Bitcoin. 


Stolen from #YahooFinance


Description

MicroStrategy Incorporated provides artificial intelligence-powered enterprise analytics software and services in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and internationally. It offers MicroStrategy ONE, which provides non-technical users with the ability to directly access novel and actionable insights for decision-making; and MicroStrategy Cloud for Government service, which offers always-on threat monitoring that meets the rigorous technical and regulatory needs of governments and financial institutions. The company also provides MicroStrategy Support that helps customers achieve their system availability and usage goals through highly responsive troubleshooting and assistance; MicroStrategy Consulting, which provides architecture and implementation services to help customers realize their desired results; and MicroStrategy Education that offers free and paid learning options. In addition, it engages in the development of bitcoin. The company offers its services through direct sales force and channel partners. It serves the U.S. government, state and local governments, and government agencies, as well as a range of industries, including retail, banking, technology, manufacturing, insurance, consulting, healthcare, telecommunications, and the public sector. The company was incorporated in 1989 and is headquartered in Tysons Corner, Virginia.
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furio | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Somehow they increase the “sats per share” metric, so maybe the speculation is that this will continue.

Also there are investors that don’t trust the corn, but are ok investing in a “company.”
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techjunkie | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Because Saylor found a crack in the fiat matrix