I guess it is still 50/50, for us Bitcoin enthusiast, we see him as one of the most popular personalities that we have in recent years, after let's say John McAfee (RIP), although John has a total different aura and personality that Michael Saylor himself.

On the contrary, those who hate or vilified by some Bitcoiners might be because he is buying everything and we are left with some dust amount that we have to divide ourselves, making it very difficult to buy Bitcoin specially at the rate of the current price as it could still go up next year 2025. But in overall, Michael Saylor has made a good decision to make a U-turn and be a Bitcoin maximalist.

You can also find plenty of Saylor-haters on Nostr, Stacker News, and even on X/Twitter.


Not misinformation mate. There are cypherpunks and even ex-bitcoin developers out there who don't like him (that does not include me by the way. Personally I couldn't care less about it but I brought this up because we're seeing a divide in people's opinions on whether Bitcoin should be used as P2P money or as an investment vehicle).

There are certainly more reasons why some do not approve of what Saylor and his company are doing. One of the reasons may be that he only accumulates BTC, which is contrary to what BTC was created for in the first place. Another thing that some still haven't forgotten about him concerns his statements in the past, which turned out to be completely meaningless and misguided.

Some people may not like him because he is from the US, and when we look at what is happening there, we get the impression that BTC is somehow becoming too dependent on one country and a few people who buy large amounts of BTC.

I do not vilify him but to be fair, I am not a huge fan of him because he plans to buy Bitcoins indefinitely and hold them forever. As I've said many times, there are billions of people on planet Earth and if we want to do good for Bitcoin, we shouldn't hold it forever, instead, we should promote Bitcoin usage. HODLed Bitcoins are lost Bitcoins, especially when Saylor says that he plans to hold them forever like Satoshi and doesn't plan to give them to the next generation. I believe that Bitcoin has to be in circulation to create new things, to create new jobs, improve the economy, improve Bitcoin adoption and popularize its usage. HODLing, especially HODLing of 1% of total Bitcoins forever and not giving them to people is not the best job in my mind.

1.8% of bitcoin's total supply, which the company holds already, is enough to put fear in people's bodies even if they don't accumulate more, which we all know they still are not ready to stop.
 
They will still be able to make some shakes in the market, because just an announcement of saying, "We will likely sell off some of our holdings on a certain date," that alone without any action can put the market in panic mode, but that's not something people should be worried about.
 
The company is busy doing what they know will work well for them; those hating are busy doing their things, and at the end of the day, there will be only one winner and many losers.

I guess I’ve not see any lack of support for him pretty much so maybe I’ve just not seen the negative or perhaps I Ive just seen all positive and no negative sentiments towards him. He is certainly buying up quite the amount of Bitcoin! I suppose it’s better having him on the BTC team though, so many folks are against Bitcoin like Peter Schiff for example.

He is not someone who could harm BTC even if he talks negatively about it - because if a man invests $12 billion in BTC in two weeks and it does not have any impact on the price, then it is completely clear that for the majority it does not matter at all. The market is of course free and everyone can buy (for now) as much BTC as they can afford - but I don't think it's positive to go towards the fact that in a few years some individuals/companies will have millions of BTC in their possession - which is not only a security issue a risk, but also a risk for the price when one day one of them decides to sell everything he has accumulated over the years.

This means that one day in the future we may experience what it's like when someone dumps a million BTC on the market - and it won't be Satoshi.


I doubt that, because in that case he would admit that he was wrong all along - and given that he is up to his neck in gold, such an admission would be bad for his job.

I don't see people "vilifying" MSTR, but it's a really, really stupid investment when MSTR is trading at a 3x premium over their Bitcoin holdings. MSTR is 100% tied to Bitcoin going up in price, and if it drops a little MSTR will probably crash.

You don't have to get personal about Saylor and Microstrategy in order to make a case against buying the MSTR stock: it's just the numbers.

Yes, it didn't go out of business, but the stock went up and down with Bitcoin's price.

If you believe in Bitcoin, then just buy Bitcoin. Buying MSTR is like buying Bitcoin at a 300% premium. It's not very smart.