Strategy's fourth quarter earnings featured a bevy of interesting tidbits given Bitcoin's fall.
Here's a look:
- Strategy held 713,502 bitcoin holdings at a total cost of $54.26 billion, or $76,052 per bitcoin. "We now hold 640,808 Bitcoin or over 3% of all Bitcoin ever exist. This reinforces the scale and the dominance of our corporate Bitcoin treasury company," said Strategy CFO Andrew Kang.
- Net loss in the fourth quarter was $12.4 billion, or $42.93 per share.
- Executive Chairman Michael Saylor said Bitcoin is digital gold and it's just peachy for leverage and credit. "Now what do you do with digital gold? Well, what do you do with gold? You issue credit on gold. For 300 years, the Western world ran on gold-backed credit. Bitcoin is digital gold. What we've realized is that the killer application of digital capital is digital credit," said Saylor.
- "Clearly, with equity, I would say, if you're going to own Bitcoin you need a four-year or longer time horizon. If you're going to own amplified Bitcoin, a company that aims to be more volatile than Bitcoin, you can't have a lower time horizon. So, you probably need a longer time horizon. So, we manage the company such that we think 10 years from now, we're going to create an insane amount of shareholder value," said Saylor.
He elaborated:
"I want MSTR to stand for monster. We want to create a monster company. We don't want to careen toward the future with an advantage. We don't want to be the talented fighter that kind of wins and loses and mostly wins and is a little bit sloppy on disciplined...
I don't want to be the dude that made a good trade that made $25 billion or made $50 billion by trading Bitcoin by using cheap corporate money.
We don't want to be the company the made $25 billion or $50 billion or a Hail Mary or maybe we lost it by whatever borrowing money, however we can get it to buy Bitcoin. We want to be the company that provided a comfortable retirement to 1 billion people and changed the world."

