There's no perfect way to custody your Bitcoin. Anyone that says otherwise is probably trying to sell you something (he's kinda got a point here). Some of those things are also really useful depending on your risk model.

When Saylor speaks he's acutely aware of his own risk model. This influences both his stated preferred custody solution & the narrative he's weaving on a broader level. He's aggressively shorting the USD with a publicly traded company. He has to tread carefully in public.

Sailor's good for Bitcoin. 

MSTR is good for Bitcoin. 

Neither are getting my sats if I can help it & I don't have to trust either of them at all.


 

 Rational take.

I have wondered for a long time if he's been playing a role to disguise what he is doing or if he's actually unaware of the fact that what he is doing is going to break the currency.

We can read between the lines and see that he's walking the Trojan horse into the castle and telling the guys inside to stay quiet.

Or he thinks he can control what is happening and steer the narrative towards his own ideological outcome. Time will tell.

Either way the outcome is similar. He doesn't have to understand what he's doing to play his role.