Michael Saylor Kicks Back at ‘Creative Journalism,’ Says He’s Not Dumping BTC

Saylor has since called out what he describes as “creative journalism.” Indeed, according to his most recent tweets, the overnight BTC-legend still appears completely convinced of Bitcoin’s future relevance.

Forget What You Heard, Saylor’s No Plans to Liquid BTC Holdings

The suggestion that MicroStrategy’s Saylor would dump his recent Bitcoin holdings appears to originate with a Bloomberg article. It states that Saylor is “not a crypto diehard” and that he’d sell his position “if bond yields jump.” Subsequently, cryptocurrency news publications picked up the story. This caused something of a backlash against Saylor:

Damn… what happened to HODLing for 100 years? You still in love with this guy?

‘We can liquidate it any day of the week, any hour of the day,’ said Michael Saylor. https://t.co/NCK1ou7I3N

— 𝕄𝕚𝕜𝕖 ₿𝕦𝕝𝕝 ₿𝕦𝕝𝕝 ₿𝕦𝕝𝕝 (@mikeinspace) September 23, 2020

The stories came as quite a shock to the cryptocurrency industry. Recently, Saylor became an instant legend thanks to his bold investment play. Appearances on a huge number of podcasts since news of MicroStrategy’s BTC buying broke suggested to cryptocurrency proponents that Saylor had indeed done his homework. Starting with Anthony Pompliano, the CEO told various podcasters that he’s in Bitcoin for the long haul. In fact, entrepreneur and consultant Brandon Quittem put together a Twitter thread of highlights from some of the interviews:

“Who are these people that are selling [bitcoin] to me. I can’t believe someone is willing to sell it to me.”

—Michael Saylor

— Brandon Quittem (@Bquittem) September 19, 2020

Subsequent tweets from Saylor himself seemed to confirm that the CEO has well and truly fallen down the proverbial rabbit hole:

#Bitcoin is a swarm of cyber hornets serving the goddess of wisdom, feeding on the fire of truth, exponentially growing ever smarter, faster, and stronger behind a wall of encrypted energy.

— Michael Saylor (@michael_saylor) September 18, 2020

Given Saylor’s ascent from being outside of cryptocurrency to overnight legendary status, “news” that he isn’t as committed to BTC as he claims initially shocked the industry. However, the stories prompted a response from the CEO: In the following tweet, Saylor states that there’s “no truth” behind the recent headlines. He goes on to call the accusations “creative journalism.”

There is no truth to the stories currently circulating that speculate "he would not hesitate to dump MicroStrategy’s 38,250 Bitcoin (BTC) at a moment’s notice if an alternative asset’s yields were to jump." This is creative journalism.

— Michael Saylor (@michael_saylor) September 23, 2020

As if to hammer home his point, Saylor then tweeted about Bitcoin’s security versus gold’s. In last numerous podcast appearances, he made it clear that he believes BTC is superior to the precious metal thanks to both assets’ relative scarcity. Referring to Bitcoin’s ever-growing hash rate, Saylor made the point that BTC is almost 20 trillion times more secure than it was in 2010. He juxtaposed this with gold’s own security history: https://twitter.com/michael_saylor/status/1308766268674187264