$MSTR
Saifedean is a great thinker,
but he’s an ideologue.
And the problem with ideologues
is they model the future based on past patterns,
without accounting for the most disruptive variable of all: changing technology.
Saifedean’s world is one where, under a Bitcoin standard, time preference naturally falls.
People accumulate hard money,
they become patient,
credit disappears,
and humanity converges on a purely equity-based system.
It’s elegant.
But it assumes a version of human rationality
that technology is actively dismantling in real time.
Look around you.
The defining trend of the last decade
has been the opposite of patience.
Instant delivery.
Reels over essays.
Fast food over cooking.
Two-day shipping became same-day.
Same-day became one hour.
The most consumed content format on earth
is a fifteen-second video.
Artificial intelligence is accelerating this further,
removing every remaining friction between want and fulfillment.
The world is not trending towards lower time preference.
It is trending towards zero patience at scale…
What Saylor understood
that Saifedean hasn’t
is that real capital markets require you to look at the world the way it is.
Bitcoin is a long-horizon, zero-yield, maximum-patience asset
living inside a civilization
that is becoming structurally more short-term by the day…
Most people will never hold Bitcoin.
Most of them have rent due,
mortgages to pay,
and no bandwidth to understand monetary debasement.
They need yield now.
They need capital now.
Saylor’s answer to that
has been to build a bridge.
$MSTR pulls in the long-term thinkers
(Institutions, the Bitcoin maximalists with decade-long conviction)
and uses their capital as a foundation
to issue products that meet everyone else where they are.
The most popular of Strategy’s preferred instruments ($STRC)
pays monthly rather than quarterly.
And the demand of late
is pushing it now towards semi-monthly.
This is Saylor reading the market correctly.
$STRC went from zero to $8 billion in under a year,
filling a massive structural gap in the market.
Saifedean is right that Bitcoin changes money.
But he’s wrong that it changes human nature.
As long as there are people with capital
and people who need it,
and technology keeps compressing time horizons,
there will be credit.
There will be yield.
There will be instruments that meet people where they are.
An ideologue dreams of the world he wants.
The capitalist builds for the world that exists.
Saylor is the capitalist.
$BTC $MSTR $STRC
BREAKING: US M2 money supply jumped +4.8% YoY in February, to a record $22.6 trillion, marking the 24th consecutive monthly increase.
Money supply is now ~$700 billion above the March 2022 peak.
Since the 2020 pandemic, M2 has surged +$7.1 trillion, or roughly +$1.2 trillion per year.
Since 2000, money in circulation has grown at an average annual rate of +6.2%.
The US Dollar is losing purchasing power at a historic pace.
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US Federal Repo Facility started printing money Jan 1 2025. They printed $400b.
Blue Line - Reverse Repo
Pink line - Bitcoin
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