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Story: Michael Saylor Unveils 953-Hour Reading Program to Understand Bitcoin

By Dan Saada

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38 Books, One Conviction. The program is explicitly aimed at future leaders. Not at casual traders, not at people looking…

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The Obvious Conflict of Interest. Here's where it gets complicated. Saylor is the CEO of a company massively exposed to Bitcoin.

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Michael Saylor has released a list. Not just two or three books. 38 works, 953 hours of reading, a comprehensive curriculum for anyone who truly wants to understand Bitcoin — and…

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The CEO of Strategy, a staunch advocate of BTC for years, has designed this program around a simple idea: one cannot grasp Bitcoin without first understanding the systems that…

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And he truly believes it. Strategy, the company he leads, has become one of the largest institutional holders of Bitcoin in the world. It's not a symbolic position.

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No details yet on how this program will be distributed. It's unclear whether it will be a platform, a PDF, or just a list published online.

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The argument is simple: when you hold as much BTC as Strategy does, you have a direct financial interest in others believing in the thesis.

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And Bitcoin remains volatile. Saylor himself cannot guarantee his predictions. The curriculum, dense as it may be, does not change that.

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But here's what's interesting: even his detractors acknowledge that the approach is different. Most crypto promoters sell dreams in 280 characters.

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The debate about his motivations will continue. He will keep promoting Bitcoin, Strategy will keep buying it, and this program will likely circulate in Bitcoin circles for a while.

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953 hours. That's the entry fee he sets for truly understanding.

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