Michael Saylor sees bitcoin, the ideal institutional safe haven asset, replacing stock indices.
Michael Saylor, Bitcoin bull and MicroStrategy CEO, spoke on CNBC’s Power Lunch about the future of bitcoin. MicroStrategy just bought $10 million worth of the digital currency, and he was asked about the future of bitcoin.
After BTC Replaces Gold
As a ‘technically superior asset’, Michael Saylor noted, BTC is the ideal institutional safe haven asset. He sees it as replacing gold.
Besides Saylor, Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, Blackrock, and others see BTC as affecting the gold price or replacing gold as an asset. However, Saylor took his prognosis a step further and said that BTC could replace stock indices such as the S&P 500 or the Dow. Cash-rich corporations are “saying that cash is a liability; they have to find an asset that’s going to appreciate faster than the rate of monetary expansion.”
After that occurs, bitcoin will find itself even further integrated into the business world. It will become the monetary index that replaces stock and bond indices such as the S&P 500 and the Dow. “People that want a safe haven store of value…for the next 10 to 30 years are going to be attracted to a digital asset that has no inflation in it.”
People that want a safe haven store of value…for the next 10 to 30 years are going to be attracted to a digital asset that has no inflation in it.
70,784 BTC, +/-
Saylor’s CNBC interview came as MicroStrategy announced that it had bought another 10,000. This takes the company’s total bitcoin holdings in its reserves to about 70,784 BTC. MicroStrategy bought this latest round of 314 bitcoin at an average of $31,808 per coin.
An IT company with a twist
MicroStrategy is still a business intelligence and professional services company. However, Saylor and his team use bitcoin as a store of value for an increasing portion of the corporation’s treasury. As CNBC notes, this results in the company’s stock price tracking bitcoin’s. “It’s almost become a stock market proxy for crypto,” said host Morgan L Brennan.
When Brennan asked Saylor about this, he noted that because companies want to convert the liability of cash into an asset, they will do one of two things. Many will do what MicroStrategy has done. They will directly purchase bitcoin. Others will go the route of Square and Paypal, and will build bitcoin into their product offerings.
Moreover, Saylor noted that the company’s employees are “pretty delighted” with the company’s moves, as they are “pioneers” in terms of utilizing this technology.
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