Is Michael Saylor the best Bitcoin Ambassador we can have nowadays?

[Poker Player]

It's not that I'm proposing him to be such, it's just a figure of speech  .

I remember I got interested in Bitcoin in June 2016. At the time, the character who came out the most was John McAfee, saying things like he was going to eat his dick on national TV if Bitcoin didn't reach $500K by the end of 2020. A bit afterwards he upped the bet and said 1 million. He openly acknowledged using drugs and prostitutes, but that is only what he acknowledged. At least there were allegations of him being linked to bribery, underage prostitution, rape, and murder.

Another person who has done a lot to spread awareness of bitcoin has been Andreas Antonopoulos. But I think in his case his influence has been more on  people who already had a certain interest in bitcoin, among retail Bitcoin investors or potential ones.

Instead, I think Michael Saylor is giving institutional adoption a major push. His company recently held a Summit on Bitcoin for Corporations attended by thousands of companies representatives.

When I listen to him, I hear a well-educated, calm person giving a thousand and one arguments why bitcoin is the best store of value in the world, why its value in fiat terms will continue to rise and why companies should buy it. He doesn't look like a drug addict with compulsion problems like McAfee or someone overly technical like Andreas.

All in all I hear a good salesman and I think he's going to give institutional adoption the boost it's been missing.

[franky1]

im watching the 'bitcoin macro strategy with ross"
seems micheal isnt doing any talking and at many points he said 'i didnt realise' 'i never thought about it that way'
the people he interviews do most the talking and seem to be more informed

ross mentioned bitcoin mining and the whole electric purchase which can help grow renewables.. micheal seems dumstruck and said 'maybe in 10 years bitcoin miners will learn this'

reality is bitcoin mining farms learned this 7 years ago.
they have been buying up the 'excess' electric capacity. and electric companies love them for it

micheal seems a lil outdated, but willing to learn. its his interviewees that seem the better 'salesmen'
one thing with that Ross guy in that video ..
he is a saleman not a fact presenter.

he mentions an example of 'chapter2' of bitcoin as using 'the network' but then goes on a salespitch about how another network that doesnt use bitcoin confirmations or blockchains. to shift value in milliseconds (LN)

seems he doesnt know the different networks are different networks

from that video alone. id rate:
michael 5/10
ross 8/10

[Poker Player]

I'm going to bring up a quote from suchmoon because he's made me think that there is something fishy about Saylor:

I know it's tempting to idolize Bitcoin evangelists (anyone remember Roger "Jesus" Ver?) but Saylor has a history of financial fraud and his business hasn't been doing well until he decided to pump Bitcoin. So yeah to me he seems like a corporate crook who decided to blow OPM on something that I happen to have an interest in but that doesn't mean I should start praising him for that. I'll be happy to eat my words if 10 years from now he truly turns out to be the second coming of Satoshi.

It's good to know this. I've googled "Michael Saylor fraud" and I am going to quote one of the articles (from the NYT): MicroStrategy Chairman Accused of Fraud by S.E.C.

"Mr. Saylor settled the civil charges that were filed in federal court in Washington without admitting or denying them and agreed to pay $8.3 million to shareholders and a $350,000 penalty to the S.E.C."

This is good to know because I didn't and it's better to be cautious. But we shouldn't infer from this that everything he does is going to be a fraud. Besides, he made a pact to pay but without admitting guilt.

[paxmao]

I'm going to bring up a quote from suchmoon because he's made me think that there is something fishy about Saylor:

I know it's tempting to idolize Bitcoin evangelists (anyone remember Roger "Jesus" Ver?) but Saylor has a history of financial fraud and his business hasn't been doing well until he decided to pump Bitcoin. So yeah to me he seems like a corporate crook who decided to blow OPM on something that I happen to have an interest in but that doesn't mean I should start praising him for that. I'll be happy to eat my words if 10 years from now he truly turns out to be the second coming of Satoshi.

It's good to know this. I've googled "Michael Saylor fraud" and I am going to quote one of the articles (from the NYT): MicroStrategy Chairman Accused of Fraud by S.E.C.

"Mr. Saylor settled the civil charges that were filed in federal court in Washington without admitting or denying them and agreed to pay $8.3 million to shareholders and a $350,000 penalty to the S.E.C."
...

It is said that "there's no such a thing as bad publicity". My thinking is that those that do not do anything rarely do anything wrong.