To be fair, when investing in bitcoin, we don't need to worry about the future of Coinbase or MicroStrategy, but we will need to pay attention to the future of bitcoin. Because the future of bitcoin has no 1000% guarantee that it will be absolutely safe and always bring us success, and it can be said that everything has risk. But because we hate centralization and when we invest in those companies, our assets will be controlled by others while bitcoin gives us privacy and full control. Therefore, choosing bitcoin will be more correct and safer.

Of course, everyone's investment taste is never the same and we need to respect each other's choices, not criticize other investments just because we don't choose them. Honestly, I'm still more focused on profit than decentralization or privacy because if I don't have the money then decentralization doesn't mean anything to me. But I still bet on bitcoin and believe it will grow better, faster and bring me greater profits than any other investment including stocks of large companies.

Of course I will choose Bitcoin. I'm a crypto lover, I'm not a fan of stocks.
Even MSTR is great, it is not the same as Bitcoin. MSTR can be stock of one of the popular companies in the world, MicroStrategy. But it can't be as flexible as when we invest in Bitcoin. Analyzing the potential of MSTR will be also different from Bitcoin. Honestly, I'm not familiar with stocks, I'm familiar with crypto world. So, no doubt I will prefer BTC over MSTR.

Both have the risks. I don't really know MSTR but I think the risk will be the same as investing on most stocks of common companies. Investing in BTC can be riskier but I can deal with the risk in Bitcoin investment. Meanwhile I don't have an idea to deal with the risk on MSTR investment.

I'm looking at putting my Roth IRA into MSTR.  In general, I like Roth IRA's.  Tax free for my lifetime, plus 10 years for my kids after I push the daisies, and I am alble to HODL BTC in my Roth.   Standard IRA's are terrible, in my opinion.  You'll have RMDs and the "M" is mandatory.  That means that goverment will take a huge chunk of your sats by gun point.

Problem with my lovely stack in my lovely Roth is that I can't put it in cold storage.  It's against the rules. (Note - unchained has a great solution for Roth IRA and cold storage, but they won't take me b/c I do not reside in the US). 

So I'm left with my Roth custodian - DirectedIRA.  Nice enough folks there, but I have to keep my sats on the gemini exchange and also have to pay $400 per year.  Now we've got spot ETF's, so I have that as another "not my keys" option to get financial BTC benefits, if not the autonomy.  I think that the ETF's are less bad than keeping it on gemini.  But now I'm thinking that if I'm using a brokerage account, then I might as well pass on the ETF's and take the ride with guru Saylor.  It's like buying BTC on leverage, but MSTR has access to cheaper capital and it lowers the margin call hazard. 

BTW - I know it doesn't mean anything, but I already dipped my toe in the MSTR waters and it popped 17% in just a couple of weeks. 

Any other thoughts from you guru's?  What do you think about Roth IRA's and if you're using one, how are you pairing it up with BTC?

MSTR will get richer and will have more Bitcoin with my money to invest while owning Bitcoin is going to make me richer if ever Bitcoin shoots a better price and at the same time, I have the full control of my own asset. It sounds good to those that lack of knowledge about investing in Bitcoin and think that having a portfolio manager looks better and will make their portfolios perform better but to be honest with this, there is no difference and so much better when you are the one controlling your own asset, Bitcoin.

It's not that I'm not interested in investing in $MSTR, but after I compare it with the appropriate investment principles, namely full control, not complicated, not involving private parties and also not wanting any tax supervision, of course Bitcoin is still one of the most relevant for me. past until now and in the future, Bitcoin will remain the only investment option that I cannot give up. My wife and I discussed various asset options to choose from but in the end we agreed that Bitcoin fit our desired investment style for a long time. $MSTR is growing because the people behind it fully support bitcoin investment and I'm not necessarily saying it's good investment advice but because it's a matter of taste that can't be forced.

We're on the bitcoin forum, what do you expect when you ask this question, OP? Just like hundreds of previous threads asking about choosing gold, real estate or bitcoin, I have not seen anyone brave enough to say they would choose gold or real estate over bitcoin. I don't know what everyone out there will choose but everyone on this forum will definitely choose bitcoin and bitcoin, nothing more and nothing less.

Everyone has reasons to justify their choices, and for the most part I see people emphasizing that they have full control over their assets when investing in bitcoin. But I personally choose bitcoin because I think its upside potential is better than MSTR.