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Story: Michael Saylor Sees Bitcoin as the World’s Reserve Asset by 2036

By Dan Saada

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What Saylor Actually Means by "Global Asset". There's a difference between Bitcoin as a store of value — the digital gold argument — and Bitcoin…

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Institutional Momentum Is Real, Even If Slow. Institutional interest in Bitcoin has been building for a while now.

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The Challenges Saylor Can't Fully Dismiss. He's not ignoring the obstacles. Regulatory uncertainty is real and it's not going away quietly.

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Michael Saylor isn't hedging. Strategy's Executive Chairman wants Bitcoin to be the backbone of global finance — not a speculative bet, not a hedge against inflation, but the…

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That's a bold call. Saylor sees Bitcoin transforming over the next decade into what he calls a global digital capital asset, something institutions can park serious money in and…

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There's a difference between Bitcoin as a store of value — the digital gold argument — and Bitcoin as foundational financial infrastructure. Saylor is talking about the second one.

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It's a lot. And it's probably ten years away, minimum, which is exactly what Saylor is saying.

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The logic isn't crazy. Bitcoin's supply is fixed. Its protocol hasn't changed in any meaningful way in years. It runs 24/7 without a central operator.

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Institutional interest in Bitcoin has been building for a while now. It's not uniform, and it's not fast, but it's there.

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Saylor sees that as the early stage of a much longer arc. If Bitcoin does become a reliable institutional collateral asset, the demand picture shifts completely.

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More context: Michael Saylor and Adam Back Push Back Hard on BIP-110 as Ordinals Market Slumps

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It's a chicken-and-egg problem, basically. Bitcoin needs stability to attract institutions, and it needs institutions to get stability.

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Market volatility is the other obvious one. Bitcoin has dropped 50%, 60%, 70% in previous cycles.

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He also sees innovation and institutional engagement as the path through these barriers. Continued dialogue with regulators, better infrastructure, more sophisticated financial…

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