Strategy Chairman Michael Saylor: Bitcoin is an Open Global Reserve Asset with Absolute Scarcity
Michael Saylor retweeted the Bitcoin price of $76,714.3, stating that Bitcoin is an open global reserve asset with absolute scarcity. He also released an "Investor Guide" covering monetary attributes, investment logic, market structure, portfolio roles, custody, and risks.
The guide is dated September 4 to 7. At that time, the dashboard showed a price of about $79,809, a 200-week moving average of about $64,715, and a premium of about 23.3%; the one-year return was -28.3%, and the ten-year annualized return was about 62.8%, with a market cap of about $1.6 trillion, accounting for about 66%, and ETF holdings of about 1.27 million coins, with a total network hash rate of about 935 EH/s and an implied volatility of about 39.6%. It begins by noting a historical drawdown of 93.1%, rather than a million-dollar target.
Strategy itself holds about 845,050 coins, with an average cost of about $75,412, and the current price is just slightly above the cost, still about 38% lower than the peak in October 2025. From August 24 to 30, the company spent about $369.7 million to buy back 4,603 coins at an average price of about $80,318, ending about ten weeks of buying suspension; from June to August, it sold thousands of coins for preferred stock dividends. The stock has fallen more than half in the past year, reporting a loss of about $12.5 billion in the first quarter.
The guide is targeted at advisors, banks, and asset allocators, with more content devoted to loss paths, custody incidents, and position discipline. The company has rebranded from a business intelligence software firm to Strategy, creating a Bitcoin leverage pipeline on its balance sheet: convertible bonds, public stock issuance based on market value, and adding preferred stock "digital credit." Saylor's first purchase was in May 2020, and the company's first transaction was on August 11 of the same year, buying 21,454 coins for $250 million.
On March 20, 2000, the company’s revenue restatement caused a one-day drop of 62%. He later paid about $8.28 million to regulators to return the earnings and a $350,000 fine, without admitting wrongdoing. The guide frames such crashes as risks that must be acknowledged in advance, rather than marketing appendices.
In market mechanics, buyers are institutional accounts that must comply with narratives to place orders, while sellers are the world's largest corporate Bitcoin vault. This is a re-education driven by events: as prices retract from highs, net asset multiples compress, and selling coins for dividends is questioned, due diligence documents must replace street slogans. If funds re-enter, they must first go through ETF and custody terms, rather than slogan retweets; beneficiaries are platforms that can simultaneously sell coins, stocks, and guides, while pressured are shareholders who bought Strategy stock at a high premium, only to find the coin price is just two points above cost.
Source: Public Information
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Saylor's timing in transforming the software company into a Bitcoin trust coincides with cash being diluted by inflation and stocks stagnating for twenty years. The guide appears in a month when the average cost is nearly matched by the current price; its function is not to encourage leverage but to provide a compliant risk checklist for bank compliance officers, ensuring that the next issuance and preferred stock can still be sold. The financial restatement and fines from 2000 are rewritten as a qualification proof of "we understand drawdowns."
The capital path remains the same: equity and credit exchanged for spot, with the spot then used as collateral for preferred stock narratives. Selling coins for dividends indicates a two-way pipeline, while the guide attempts to explain "selling coins" as portfolio management rather than a faith rupture. Institutions seek sentences about custody, volatility, and historical maximum drawdowns that can be written into investment policy statements; retail investors want the phrase "absolute scarcity." A document serving both types of readers is standard practice for vault companies in bear markets.
A comparison can be made to gold ETF prospectuses: first addressing nationalization of gold mines, custody risks, and a 40% drawdown, then discussing monetary attributes. MicroStrategy's previous software valuation logic has been replaced, with the industry moving from a discovery phase to a control phase—whoever can provide allocators with quotable texts can continue to absorb newly issued paper debt. Followers like Twenty One and Strive lack not slogans but the depth of this risk chapter.
Structural judgment pertains to the transfer of pricing power. The mechanism is: spot prices are determined by ETF and miner supply, while the vault company's stock price is determined by "narrative premium minus leverage discount." The guide frames scarcity as an open reserve to ensure that the premium is higher than the discount again. When there is a 28% drop in a year, those who do not write about risks cannot sell the next preferred stock; those who do write about risks are qualified to continue buying coins.
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Sell slogans at highs, sell prospectuses at drawdowns.
Absolute scarcity must be written into portfolios, first in the risk section.
Text that can be archived by banks is more valuable than sentences that can be retweeted by fans.