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MicroStrategy: The Man Who Bet $42B and Lost

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  • Published on Apr 16, 2026

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  • @JunkBondInvest
    @JunkBondInvest  Month ago +5

    I wrote a primer on MSTR's capital allocation strategy. Check it out here: www.junkbondinvestor.com/p/the-definitive-guide-to-microstrategys

    • @truelionofjudah4097
      @truelionofjudah4097 Month ago +3

      this video will age like milk in the desert. and everybody who is not buying bitcoin now will cry later.

    • @joeharris2892
      @joeharris2892 Month ago

      Cayman gts4.0 for the win

    • @hillbillyhodl
      @hillbillyhodl 17 days ago

      I didn't pay for part 2 of the article, I did buy more MSTR.

  • @bc-guy852
    @bc-guy852 Month ago +2

    I guess this is my first visit to your channel; because for sure I would have subscribed and set notifications if I had seen any prior content of this sort of quality!! Well done. I hope and think we'll be seeing a lot more from you!
    (Clear a spot on your wall or shelf for that Silver Play Button!)

  • @APPEALtoFEAR
    @APPEALtoFEAR Month ago +5

    your channel is growing pretty damn fast; 100k subs in no time
    Keep it up 👍

  • @scottwigginton
    @scottwigginton Month ago +7

    He is down about 5%. Maybe a bit early to call it a failure.

  • @CowboyInTheJungle21
    @CowboyInTheJungle21 14 days ago +2

    I have no problems with your analysis and all of your points are spot on. Strategy will be discussed in classrooms decades after this. The only question is will it be in a positive light or a negative light. If Bitcoin has a role as global capital I think Michael Saylor will be proven to be the smartest man in the room. But it could absolutely go the other way. This will be interesting to see how it plays out over the next few years. thanks for the content. It was great.

  • @neanda
    @neanda Month ago

    cool story, i loved the ending

  • @keithb372
    @keithb372 Month ago +9

    I love Bitcoin, but I’m starting to think it was simply an example of what the internet can create. At first it felt revolutionary. Now it feels a bit like strawberry bubble gum. Exciting at the start, but the flavor fades.

  • @ashleymoore9063
    @ashleymoore9063 Month ago

    Awesome idea create your own spread

  • @dimmere19
    @dimmere19 Month ago +2

    I own shares. Going to save this video and see how this plays out in 5 years

  • @JamesBarry-t6q
    @JamesBarry-t6q Month ago +1

    You go from being rich to being poor like that it's like something out of the Wall Street crash of 1929

  • @ntantar
    @ntantar Month ago

    I'm definitely saving this video and ill be back to let you guys know how my 20 LEAP contracts worked out for me by December 2028

  • @dwapo
    @dwapo Month ago +1

    Leaving comment as a reminder for future self - "See! I told you!"

  • @georgeginsburg545
    @georgeginsburg545 Month ago +6

    actually, Strategy is on its way back up

  • @ronwalker3726
    @ronwalker3726 Month ago

    "He who laughs BEST today, will also laugh LAST."- Twilight of the Idols,1889.

  • @Quattro2016
    @Quattro2016 Month ago +3

    My grocery strategy hasn’t failed. They just bought one bitcoin. Their average is 75,000 per coin. Wait and watch and see what the price of bitcoin does as all of the institutions are trying to buy as much as they can right now because they know what’s coming.

  • @rajadon2071
    @rajadon2071 Month ago +1

    Nice information ❤

  • @LDQBBQ
    @LDQBBQ 23 days ago

    They sound like Mortimer and Mortimer from Trading Places.

  • @pilotgrrl1
    @pilotgrrl1 Month ago +5

    What I want to know is whether or not they got rid of their COBOL product. Back in the day, that was a big thing.

  • @kimchisgood2993
    @kimchisgood2993 Month ago +195

    I will watch this video in the next 4 years … let’s see

    • @SIGMA-MAN-ONE
      @SIGMA-MAN-ONE Month ago +14

      In the next 4 years there won't be a crypto market outside of criminals laundering money.

    • @JapanAW
      @JapanAW Month ago +16

      I was thinking this same thing. 😂
      This will age like sour milk in a matter of months, not years in my opinion.

    • @kimchisgood2993
      @kimchisgood2993 Month ago +6

      @S@SIGMA-MAN-ONEsee that why bank offering crypto products or found edge like Black rock , JP Morgan and institutions or governments pushing for adopt digital USDT USDC etc … interesting your point of view all those are criminals true …. 😂

    • @Irongloveinvestments
      @Irongloveinvestments Month ago +7

      Lollll silver has destroyed btc this yeae get use too it lol

    • @kimchisgood2993
      @kimchisgood2993 Month ago

      @Irongloveinvestments smart investor not focus only in one sector ….. silver outperform even gold in the last 2 years but this doesn’t mean BTc is death … I will never go all in $BTC but neither Silver and gold but need good balance … long term … still $BTC has best performant even the ETF …. We gonna talk about next years …

  • @MarcM143
    @MarcM143 Month ago

    Hmm. Take my cash in the bank and buy sets numbers to put on a SD card. Sounds great!

  • @NotMyGumDropButtons.444

    when will enough be enough

  • @g.m3399
    @g.m3399 Month ago

    This guy is gangster : don’t sell the crypto and you will kill it

  • @leeolajideadams
    @leeolajideadams Month ago +2

    There is no second best 🤯

  • @marcinstanczak9738
    @marcinstanczak9738 Month ago +2

    His stock was around $10 before he started buying, and now its is $147. Exactly how did he loose?

    • @beatch42
      @beatch42 Month ago +1

      AND you forgot it's now at 147 despite all the dilution (new shares)

  • @Yewbzee
    @Yewbzee Month ago +1

    Wow calling the market after the event, you sound like a trading genius.

  • @Sunshineabs
    @Sunshineabs Month ago +1

    no one can tell the future but it's worth keeping in mind this is only like the hundredth time bitcoin has died in the last decade

  • @vitaliyfursov2011
    @vitaliyfursov2011 Month ago

    key sign of stupidity and been lost is powerful face....

  • @wayneburnside7819
    @wayneburnside7819 Month ago +1

    “Then again, maybe he’s right.” Yep. Bitcoin isn’t going away. It (and Saylor) will return strong.

  • @ashleymoore9063
    @ashleymoore9063 Month ago

    Wow he hit jackpot 2x then ran it into the ground

  • @SP1967.
    @SP1967. Month ago +1

    I think they got $3B at the market so far this month - seems like some people are interested in their plan

  • @maxenglish3328
    @maxenglish3328 Month ago +4

    Why are you on about? As soon as you said MS had 500mil in the bank earning nothing i dipped.

  • @williamyoutube368
    @williamyoutube368 Month ago +1

    Wait, it already went up again

  • @IconicSwooshes
    @IconicSwooshes Month ago +3

    How did you mention STRC that changes the whole scenario and outcome? Seems a little disingenuous not to mention that and how it works and affects MSTR

  • @michaelfelsinger-k2i
    @michaelfelsinger-k2i Month ago +11

    "Charismatic leader"? Saylor always came across to me as blank-eyed and sedated! Like Alex Karp, whose handlers have recently given him some kind of pep pill which he has no tolerance for, and so we stare in disbelief as we see him squirming on his seat like a butthole of hemorrhoids on a chair of nails! In fact, every one of these clowns - Musk, Theil, Karp, Saylor - has something in common with Napoleon Dynamite - the eyeless gaze of a potato !

    • @toddmarshall416
      @toddmarshall416 Month ago +1

      I wonder who wrote Karp's wikipedia article. Am I the only one having trouble with this sentence?
      "After studying philosophy at Haverford College, Karp earned a J.D. from Stanford Law School where he met Peter Thiel, and later, a Ph.D. in social theory from Goethe University Frankfurt. "

    • @michaelfelsinger-k2i
      @michaelfelsinger-k2i Month ago +1

      @toddmarshall416 A strange CV for a, ahem, strange creature! Is he a clone of Doctor Faust? All the best, Todd! Don't let this keep you awake at night!

  • @timetoreflect1394
    @timetoreflect1394 Month ago

    Maybe again Michael is right! 🤑🤪

  • @Rainy_Day12234
    @Rainy_Day12234 Month ago

    I doubt he’s down any money once interest is included.

  • @Nickpiz94
    @Nickpiz94 27 days ago

    Btc’s 200 week moving average has never gone down… said another was is that its been in 16yr long bull market

  • @whoisjohngalt-hg5us
    @whoisjohngalt-hg5us Month ago +65

    It will be renamed as a "Saylor Scheme" and Ponzi will be pissed.

    • @LesserAndrew
      @LesserAndrew 28 days ago

      The MSTR strategy is more of a terrible business model than outright fraud. Ponzi just pretended to buy stamps.

  • @JElvis-n2u
    @JElvis-n2u Month ago

    Other than people buying bitcoin in the market, what makes the value of it increase? If there are no willing buyers of bitcoin, will it eventually be exposed as a scam?

  • @xmixaplix
    @xmixaplix Month ago

    He look like he can be a Tom Cruise double :x

  • @iancouzens
    @iancouzens Month ago

    I only lost a grand before I came to my senses.

  • @psp785
    @psp785 24 days ago

    How did he lose btc is down but this is a long term play

  • @mikatu
    @mikatu Month ago +1

    The idea was good, but you only buy BTC with your OWN money. Borrowing money is a big no.

  • @dontree1977
    @dontree1977 Month ago +1

    Bitcoin doesn't earn interest, how do you make money within selling the coin. Selling the coin will cause the price to go down, it's a catch 22.

  • @Gabe-n3x7j
    @Gabe-n3x7j Month ago +1

    He'll be aiight in fact he will be very powerful in the future like a bank almost

    • @itheuserfirst3186
      @itheuserfirst3186 Month ago

      You are so certain of the future. You don't know what you don't know.

    • @Gabe-n3x7j
      @Gabe-n3x7j 29 days ago

      Crypto is most definitely the future you know... the mark of the beast digital money...​@itheuserfirst3186

  • @leeebbrell9
    @leeebbrell9 28 days ago

    Are we surprised, how he has convinced people and companies to give him money is unbelievable

  • @nonayabusiness6170
    @nonayabusiness6170 Month ago +1

    He's holding on so much bitcoin and loss billions over and over again. However, at what point of the video did it states he's broke?

  • @jojo2519
    @jojo2519 Month ago +4

    is the story over though?🤔

  • @braddockbrawler
    @braddockbrawler Month ago +3

    Bitcoin was supposed to be scattered among people, not concentrated in the hands of another little tech dictator.

    • @beatch42
      @beatch42 Month ago

      It wouldn't make a difference. The vast majority of people suck with $ they'll suck with Bitcoin too and it would just end up there anyway. Rich people exist because most people dont even understand money in the least bit

    • @CamboHODL
      @CamboHODL 29 days ago

      You had at least a 15 year head start to convert your fiat to BTC before the likes of Blackrock and other institutions joined the party. People only have themselves to blame. Bitcoin didn’t promise you even distribution it only promised you equal access and equal ownership of the network. Besides, even if you divided wealth evenly to every individual what do you think will eventually happen? Money always flow from fools to the sophisticated. Saylor made his intentions clear, it’s no secret; acquire a million Bitcoin. Meanwhile, what are you doing?

  • @blazenbird7374
    @blazenbird7374 Month ago +2

    If Bitcoin does go back up and make new ath he will be worth a fortune and he will keep buying not saying it will or won't but if does he will make alot IDC what anyone says bought 5k worth of mstr at 120 during the dip if goes to zero whatever it's 5k I can afford to loose it's not my whole portfolio at all

  • @ethanniedorowski116

    12:46 shocker people use people to make money..
    If you dont understand it dont use your money

  • @b86878
    @b86878 Month ago +1

    Imagine, FUD when markets are in extreme fear. We've never seen this before! Everyone better sell all your crypto and MSTR before it goes to $0! I'm sure glad institutions and whales are taking one for the team and buying our bags to help us out of this mess lol!

  • @cheninblanc8208
    @cheninblanc8208 Month ago +2

    sounds like an ornate Ponzi Scheme

  • @coffee-91
    @coffee-91 Month ago +1

    it's important to know, that saylor personally owns "at least 17000 bitcoin", so it is in saylors best interest to keep on buying more bitcoin with other peoples money in order to pump up the price. I will not take any sides on if you should or should not buy bitcoin, but I just want people to understand that michael saylor is not as good of a person as he wants you to think he is.

  • @SoloSojourner
    @SoloSojourner Month ago +1

    For those Bitcoin bros celebrating the recent move up in Bitcoin keep a few things in mind...
    Strategy purchased 17,994 BTC (~$1.28B) between 2-8 March 2026. Total holdings now about 738,731 BTC, the largest corporate treasury globally and Saylor's ponzi continues to fund purchases through stock issuance and preferred securities. ETFs and whales also bought recent lows stabilizing the price. Without these bids, where would the BTC price be trading? Is this the vision Satoshi and BTC evangelists had in mind for the future utility of Bitcoin?

  • @hectormunoz4812
    @hectormunoz4812 Month ago +1

    Last 8k they bought 18k bitcoin
    This 8k were expecting more than that. Seems to me like the company is working great. Bitcoin has been called dead a million times now strategy will go through the same fud. Dyor guys

  • @MrTAFSIYNOT
    @MrTAFSIYNOT Month ago

    I would never invest in crypto. Thank you and cheers!

  • @SeeYouNextLife
    @SeeYouNextLife Month ago

    I just want to know how much you are shorting MSTR? You could be rich you know😅

  • @justjrandomuser
    @justjrandomuser Month ago

    I'm confused how exactly he "failed"?

  • @alexpascal5403
    @alexpascal5403 Month ago

    I’m a Royal head deamon.

  • @renerodriguez6848
    @renerodriguez6848 Month ago

    Really as.....

  • @demogadget
    @demogadget Month ago

    XRP!

  • @danielstapler4315
    @danielstapler4315 Month ago +5

    Strategy is up 10% in the last month, down 14% in the last three months down 57% in the last 6 months, down 53% in the last year.
    So the last month is OK, right?

  • @FrankZen
    @FrankZen Month ago +2

    premature. the story isn't over yet.

  • @CHUCKBALLERSATOSHILOUNGE2026

    lost ...OMG MY SIDES MY SIDES

  • @wylanneely
    @wylanneely Month ago

    This is something you hold for 10 years. They own over 3% of the current bitcoin supply, which is crazy. I bought in at .95 nav to btc. So in 2-6 years when there is a new BTC top, strategy will be valued at some point 1.5--3 times how much bitcoin they have on the balance, that's when I sell and convert half to cash, and half to bitcoin

  • @user-4765-xx
    @user-4765-xx Month ago

    Love it when these “geniuses” are exposed.

  • @WATCHMEGOBROKE
    @WATCHMEGOBROKE 27 days ago

    It's not a loss until you sell

  • @matthiashehn4410
    @matthiashehn4410 Month ago

    A grifter is a grifter is a grifter

  • @Testwest78
    @Testwest78 Month ago

    Saylor Moon 😂

  • @MendingWall2
    @MendingWall2 Month ago +1

    It's been stable and slightly rising for the past 6 weeks, through all this turmoil. If Trump's team pull off their takeover of global levers and the U.S. economy takes off, MSTR will skyrocket.

  • @beatch42
    @beatch42 Month ago +3

    YOU KNOW THIS RUclipsR IS STUFFING HIS BAGS WITH BITCOIN ON THE DOWN LOW 😂

  • @ElevateLens-RealEstatePh-cb9lm

    What do microstrategy employees do anyway?? Is the company just Sailor’s laptop?

    • @carnivore88
      @carnivore88 Month ago +1

      1500 employees farting around w software n a BTC holding company.

  • @Mark79011
    @Mark79011 Month ago +17

    His stocks are not dead. You have to buy and sell with the bull/bear market. When btc bottoms this summer then buy it

  • @lewieanderson6579
    @lewieanderson6579 Month ago

    Saylor made the same mistake as most greedy investors " it'll keep going up and up and...."

  • @ShadeEmberi
    @ShadeEmberi Month ago

    Haha, he thought nothing would change?

  • @ManMountainMetals
    @ManMountainMetals Month ago +4

    Friends don't let friends grow flax ❤

  • @rydirban
    @rydirban Month ago +2

    Bitcoin can't be what people want it to be. Once all the coins are released, it has to be maintained by outside wealth / fiat currency. It will become a black hole of money destruction.

  • @joeanderson8839
    @joeanderson8839 Month ago

    I knew this was a scam, and when the currency lost value, the people who sold invisible money that only existed in the cloud, for actual dollars would be left with the money. They actually sold nothing and made billions.

  • @RomanEmpire-e7l
    @RomanEmpire-e7l Month ago

    You mean the same exact thing that happened last BTC bear market? Okay.

  • @jbax778
    @jbax778 Month ago

    Since 2012 its been called "a bubble" By people who have not spend even 10 hours studying bitcoin.
    It was the same talks of funeral below 1000$ that people now have below 70,000$ lol

    • @iBuyBitcoin
      @iBuyBitcoin Month ago

      Every Bitcoin funeral keeps on getting more expensive and expensive. Critics can’t seem to grasp this 😂

  • @Chuck26814
    @Chuck26814 Month ago +2

    Bitcoin has had serious drops from ATHs like 16 times and its comeback much stronger EVERY SINGLE TIME.

    • @stalefurset9444
      @stalefurset9444 Month ago +1

      Every time....so far. It's like a heart patient saying "My heart has stopped 16 times and doctors have restarted it every single time. I'm going to live forever."

    • @moofymoo
      @moofymoo Month ago

      but this time haters are right, because they cannot be wrong 16 times in row!!1

  • @domingoferrari5889

    He hasn’t lost anything . He hasn’t sold any bitcoin. Lets see how rich he is in 5 years

  • @uckBayNguyen
    @uckBayNguyen Month ago +3

    The guy immortalized himself as the modern day tulip bubble champion

  • @SatsOfTime
    @SatsOfTime Month ago

    😂😂😂 This is complete FUD. Daily STRC volume is approaching $3 billion. 11.5% ROC dividends is unbeatable and the haters are freaking out. 😂😂😂

  • @wildfoxcat
    @wildfoxcat 28 days ago

    His company, formerly worth $500m, is now worth $48b - what exactly has he lost?

  • @jacobklein2778
    @jacobklein2778 Month ago +1

    These videos are cute but unless you understand trading you really have no idea what youre talking about. Today we are at $70k a coin. Still got one more potential low in the ABC structure to most likely complete. Around $54k. After that BTC will go much higher than the 128k it made it too. You will wish you had bought.

  • @mathewomolo
    @mathewomolo Month ago +3

    When do we all cash out?

    • @GregMoress
      @GregMoress Month ago

      When there is no more buying interest.... So about a few weeks ago.

    • @DanKruper-pi9bb
      @DanKruper-pi9bb Month ago

      When a horde of idiot newcomers hopes in

  • @athleteoftheyear
    @athleteoftheyear Month ago

    I thought I found a goldmine and rode this stock all the way to over $400 and then one day it was all gone. I don't own 1 share now and don't even think about buying any. Just buy BTC. That's kind of a no brainer if that's what they are doing with your money.

  • @Bianca-bb6tt
    @Bianca-bb6tt Month ago +1

    Bitcoin next Level in 2026. 150.000-250.000

  • @MrHellsing1055
    @MrHellsing1055 Month ago +1

    to be fair if he never sells BTC, eventually he will hit the 400's again. now if he sells, well, yea it failed. Calling his model a failure is too soon to call.

  • @RevJim-qc2ry
    @RevJim-qc2ry Month ago +3

    But then again maybe this video ( jbi ) is wrong and Saylor is right. I've done the math.

  • @patrickshanahan4268
    @patrickshanahan4268 Month ago +1

    Once the banks own Bitcoin, it's no longer the Peoples Money.

  • @AlexLai1
    @AlexLai1 13 days ago

    Buying more LOL

  • @silrobati
    @silrobati Month ago +2

    lol

  • @anthonynicholson5523

    People won't use digital currency . Cash is private

  • @MaximGhost
    @MaximGhost Month ago +1

    Saylor hasn't failed.
    The ones buying MSTR while it was trading at a premium were the ones who failed. Saylor took advantage of them.
    Saylor is a long-term HODLer on bitcoin and has gone through enough crypto winters to know there are simply up-and-down cycles.

  • @ShadeEmberi
    @ShadeEmberi Month ago +1

    I still don't know what the company does

    • @firefoxx1812
      @firefoxx1812 Month ago +2

      They have a pretty good data mining and stats reporting software tool. I use it commercially in the UK.

  • @pmam1968
    @pmam1968 Month ago

    Wen moon

  • @sr4169
    @sr4169 Month ago +3

    STRC