MicroStrategy Didn’t Adopt Bitcoin — Bitcoin Swallowed MicroStrategy
TL;DR
BTC swallowed $MSTR, now Michael Saylor’s BTC strategy is either going to be one of the greatest triumphs or failures in investing history (our guess is the former).
Full Story
Body Snatchers (1993):
A teenage girl and her father discover alien clones are replacing humans on a remote U.S. military base in Alabama.
Body Snatchers (2024):
A 59 year old man and his software company discover Bitcoin, which then swallows his entire business model, in a remote town in Virginia.
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MicroStrategy ($MSTR) is in a weird spot.
Sure, it’s technically a software company — but a large portion of its market cap is thanks to the fact that it owns ~190,000 Bitcoin (~$9.74B).
So much so that the narrative around the stock is “buy $MSTR to get exposure to Bitcoin” — instead of “buy $MSTR to gain exposure to the profits of its software business.”
Just look at the correlation between $MSTR’s stock price, and Bitcoin:
Here’s what defines the ‘weird spot’ the company is in:
If Bitcoin goes up, MicroStrategy stock goes up ✅
If Bitcoin goes down, MicroStrategy stock goes down ❌
If MicroStrategy sells any of its Bitcoin, the stock goes down ❌
(See how the reward v. risk is asymmetric?)
The fun part of it all, is this:
With this level of correlation, Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin strategy is either going to be one of the greatest triumphs, or failures in investing history.
(We have a feeling it’s going to be the former).