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