Sam Bankman-Fried Created A Million Bitcoin Maximalist – Michael Saylor

The founder of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried who is under close regulatory investigation over claims of user money fraud, may have indirectly produced many bitcoin org bitcoin org - Event OrganiserTechnologyPayment solution maximalists, according to MicroStrategy (MSTR) Executive Chairman Michael Saylor Michael Saylor   Michael Saylor is a co-founder of Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy). Before founding Microstrategy, he was a rocket scientist and studied aeronautics and astronautics at MIT on an Air Force scholarship. He dubs Bitcoin 'Digital Gold'.   He made some early investment in Bitcoin as soon as he realized it was going to be the next big thing in shaping decentralized finance from traditional finance. His firm Strategy has made Bitcoin their primary treasure reserve.   Quick Facts   Full Name Michael J. Saylor Birth 04-02-1965 in Lincoln, Nebraska Education BSc from MIT Marital Status To be updated / Unmarried Nationality American Net Worth $8.4B (Feb. 20205, Refer for realtime)   As per Forbes, Saylor bought another 17,732 bitcoins for $175 million in October 2020. Forbes covered Michael Saylor on its front page and called him "The Bitcoin Alchemist" as the latter's Net Worth hit a whopping $7.6B in January 2025.   Michael Saylor – Career Timeline   1983–1987: Studied Aeronautics & Astronautics and Science, Technology & Society at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). 1989: Co-founded MicroStrategy (Strategy). 1998: MicroStrategy IPO – Took MicroStrategy public on the NASDAQ at $12 per share. 2000: Accounting Scandal & Crash – MicroStrategy's stock plunged 62% in a day due to an accounting misstatement, wiping out billions in valuation. 2004–2019: MicroStrategy Rebuilds – Worked towards cloud-based analytics and AI-driven business intelligence, regaining stability. 2020: Bitcoin Strategy & Investment – Led MicroStrategy’s $425M Bitcoin investment. He made it the first publicly traded company to adopt Bitcoin. 2021: Bitcoin Evangelism – Became one of Bitcoin’s most vocal advocates, encouraging corporations and institutions to adopt BTC and blockchain. 2022: Stepped Down as CEO – Transitioned to Executive Chairman to focus entirely on Bitcoin strategy.   With a major focus on blockchain network growth, Saylor is considered one of the architects in shaping the growth of decentralized finance.   Useful Links to connect with Michael Saylor   Platform Link to connect Twitter (X) Michael Saylor MicroStrategy (Strategy) Official Website MicroStrategy Michael Saylor’s YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/MichaelSaylor Hope.com (Bitcoin Education by Saylor) Bitcoin is Hope     msaylor@microstrategy.com EntrepreneurCrypto and Blockchain ExpertAuthor .

Earlier, Saylor compared ftx exchange ftx exchange - Centralised Exchange CEO Sam Bankman-Fried to trader and stockbroker Jordan Belfort in an interview on Yahoo Finance Live.

“I mean, in fact, in a sense, SBF is like the Jordan Belfort of the crypto era. Instead of ‘The Wolf of Wall Street,’ they’ll make a movie called ‘The King of Crypto’.He was working to corrupt regulations and corrupt the political process. When you have actors that use corrupt counterfeit, stolen money in order to undermine the industry, it’s not good for anybody,” he said. 

Few days after the FTX collapse, MicroStrategy stock fell 20% as investors feared after a sharp decline in Bitcoin. MicroStrategy revealed last month that it owned 130,000 bitcoins, with an average purchase price of about $30,639 per coin and a total cost of almost $3.98 billion.

Saylor also attributed the failure of the crypto exchange to the lack of transparency. On CNBC’s Squawk Box, A company’s cryptocurrency holdings should be “nobody else’s liability, Saylor said.

He stated that given the existing circumstances, additional regulatory control of FTX is unavoidable. However, he stressed that the sector as a whole could be harmed if regulators respond too harshly to FTX’s collapse.

Following the bankruptcy of troubled crypto exchange FTX, the price of bitcoin fell below $16,000 on Thursday.

BTC is currently trading just around $17,000 after experiencing a little uptick following the release of US consumer price index data on Thursday morning.

It is currently unknown how long the crypto market will take to recover from the crash brought on by FTX.

BTC is now down by almost 30% in relation to its 30-day highs. And most other major cryptocurrencies share the same situation.