On average, the currency collapses every 30 to 40 years in most political jurisdictions for all of human history.

Your storehouse of value, whatever it is, is going to be deflated terribly during your lifetime.

The best currency of the last hundred years is the dollar.

The winning currency of the 20th century the best currency in the world

lost 99.9% of its value that's a winner okay now you come across bitcoin and you talked about it as if

it was abstracted gold if god's not going to set up divine bank and solve all your monetary problem

what's the second best idea we We don't trust the government.

We don't trust a local bank. We don't trust each other. And we want the bank to last for a thousand

years. Let's go ahead and build out this Bitcoin network. My guest today, Michael Saylor started a number of successful companies, successful by almost every standard.

It wasn't sufficient to expand out the full scope of his ambition,

and I would say that in the most positive sense.

He became deeply interested in 2020 in Bitcoin in consequence

and has been at the forefront of a revolution in finance.

His company now owns 3% of the Bitcoin in circulation and the successful company that he built

with blood, sweat and tears, let's say 10 years ago, has become a hyper-successful company

in consequence. He's been an evangelist for Bitcoin.

He's used religious symbolism and terminology to describe it.

He's on fire for Bitcoin.

And we talked about things you really need to know today.

You need to know who Michael Saylor is, where he got his ambition,

how his grounding in fantasy and science fiction allied with the encouragement of his parents

to produce the ambition in him that has culminated in this consequence. You need to know that

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