{"id":621798,"date":"2024-06-09T18:58:45","date_gmt":"2024-06-09T22:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=621798"},"modified":"2024-06-09T18:59:45","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T22:59:45","slug":"michael-saylor-interview-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/09\/michael-saylor-interview-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Saylor Interview Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you think about this really deeply, you don&#8217;t really want to buy a Tesla with a Bitcoin, because Bitcoin&#8217;s going to $1 million and the Tesla&#8217;s going to zero. What you want to do is borrow $50,000 in dollars at 4% interest to buy the Tesla, and then in ten years you&#8217;ll have the $1 million and you&#8217;ll be able to buy another Tesla, and then you&#8217;ll have $10 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">financing the property to the currency<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If what you want is to construct a system that makes you wealthy and keeps you wealthy and keeps all the gears of commerce spinning, the system that works best is everybody holds a digital currency and they hold a digital property, or a digital asset; they&#8217;re both technically assets, which is why I distinguish one as property and one as currency. And then the strategy long term is you keep financing the property to the currency. And it&#8217;s actually of benefit to you.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Revolution vs evolution<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Apolitical<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The evolutionary view is, &#8220;I invented oil and steel and electricity and Isaac Newton invented engineering maths. Is the world a better place with calculus, oil, steel and electricity, and should we introduce it?&#8221; The evolutionary view is apolitical. It&#8217;s constructive and it&#8217;s also cooperative.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Change the money keep the bank<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The path of least resistance is the strategy of most likely success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bitcoin over gold<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">as long as the US dollar is losing 15% of its value a year, every single person in the United States can borrow money at less than 15% interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you&#8217;re borrowing money at 2%, 3%, 4%, 5% interest, everybody has a positive 10% arbitrage just off of the currency weakening, which means that if you don&#8217;t have debt in the weakening currency, then your portfolio is half as big as it would otherwise be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">**<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the world&#8217;s $1,000 trillion, I think that digital energy is $500 trillion. We can call that money, the money is $500 trillion, however you want to deal with it. We have a solution to half of everything, but we don&#8217;t have a solution to the other half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">before you change the world, get the money.***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">**<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And if you&#8217;re 100% invested, I want you to understand it well enough to say, &#8220;Well, maybe I really can take out a 3% 15-year loan and be 200% invested&#8221;. Why not?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you think about this really deeply, you don&#8217;t really want to buy a Tesla with a Bitcoin, because Bitcoin&#8217;s going to $1 million and the Tesla&#8217;s going to zero. 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