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"We're The Biggest Buyer of Bitcoin in the World": Michael Saylor's Infinite Vision

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4.7698 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2026

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

In a CoinDesk interview following Consensus Miami 2026, Strategy Founder, Michael Saylor, discusses being the world’s largest bitcoin buyer with $62B purchased. In this interview, Saylor describes the convergence of TradFi and DeFi via their digital credit product Stretch (STRC), which has rapidly grown and helps fund bitcoin accumulation.

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0:00.0

You know, we bought $62 billion of Bitcoin, we're the biggest buyer of Bitcoin in the world.

0:04.7

We will probably be, continue to be, add infinitum, the biggest buyer of Bitcoin in the world.

0:17.1

Thank you, Michael, for having CoinDesk interview you.

0:23.7

How's everything going? I think it's awesome.

0:34.3

I mean, it's been a 2026 is, I think, a great year. It's really exciting. Our digital credit product stretch has exploded in popularity. And I just finished speaking and meeting with a bunch of people at consensus down here in

0:44.0

Miami.

0:44.7

And it was my first time at consensus.

0:46.7

I think you could summarize what's going on here is the convergence of tradfi and

0:53.7

defy through digital credit and the convergence of tradfi and defy through digital credit and the convergence

0:56.4

of Bitcoin interest and crypto interest through digital credit. So I think that the industry's

1:02.8

moving together with more enthusiasm than any time I can remember. I couldn't agree more um i kind of want to go back to your

1:14.1

earnings call and do if we could decipher like a two minute or uh if you could shrink it from a two

1:20.5

hour to two minute but how i would decipher it is um you the as an operating company you're now more as a

1:27.4

i'd say a hedge fund, quote unquote.

1:29.3

So it's selling high cost basis Bitcoin.

1:33.3

I think there was, well, $14 billion cost basis above 100,000 Bitcoin.

1:39.3

You've got your tax loss harvesting.

1:42.3

And then once you book profits, you then have the

1:46.3

optionality to then go into common stock, retiring your convert, issuing digital credit, or buying

1:54.8

Bitcoin. Is that a fair synopsis of a shorter?

2:13.3

Yeah, I think the summary of the call is that the company has lots of different treasury operations that it can engage in, and many, many assets to manage.

2:19.6

And we were working to communicate all the various trades and all the various capital markets activities that we thought were rational in the best interest of the shareholders.

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