Pakinomist – Michael Saylor, maximalist and MicroStrategy’s executive chairman, has previously taken to his account on the social media X platform (commonly known as Twitter in the past) to deliver a Bitcoin-themed MicroStrategy message to his multi-million army of followers.
In his traditional style, the MicroStrategy founder shared an AI-generated image depicting Saylor sitting in front of a window in a room with an alien Martian landscape in the background behind the window. He is dressed as a spaceman with MSTR letters and a BTC mascot (both in orange – the color of Bitcoin) on his white jacket.
“We’re going to Mars,” the tweet said.
The community responded with a wave of bullish comments, sharing Saylor’s enthusiasm. Here one can see an analogy to Elon Musk and his connection to the pro-crypto President Trump. Musk intends to send unmanned rockets to Mars in two years, when there is the shortest distance between Earth and Mars. If all goes well, according to him, in two years after that SpaceX will deliver the first manned spacecraft.
Bitcoin price rises above $106,800
Today, the world’s biggest meme cryptocurrency Bitcoin is up about 4.55%, rising from $101,396 to $106,875, adding more than $5,000 in a matter of hours. At the time of writing, BTC is changing hands at $105,991.
This increase came after a 5.20% drop that Bitcoin has suffered between Tuesday and Thursday this week.
Bitcoin soared when pro-crypto US Senator Cynthia Lummis, who proposed building a US strategic bitcoin reserve in the summer of 2024, tweeted: “Big things are coming”, hinting at the growing chances of the BTC reserve going in fulfillment.
MicroStrategy Delivers 6,120 Bitcoin Gain to Shareholders
In a recently published X post, Michael Saylor revealed that last week MicroStrategy managed to make a profit of 6,120 Bitcoins for MSTR holders. That represented a BTC yield of 1.36% on the 450,000 BTC held by Michael Saylor’s company.
At a rate of approx. $105,000, 6,120 BTC translated into about $642.6 million in value produced thanks to MicroStrategy’s treasury operations. Saylor thus emphasized that the company follows through on its commitment to maximize shareholder returns.
This week, the company added more Bitcoin to its stashes, buying a staggering $1.1 billion worth of BTC, which now has a total of 461,000 Bitcoins.
