Michael Saylor: Will His Bitcoin Prediction of 150K Survive the Latest Shocks?

The stars are aligning and bitcoin seems to be benefiting. Between regulatory pivot, banking rush, innovative investment products, and promises of massive adoption, the star cryptocurrency is driven by a current as rare as it is powerful. Many analysts see this as the prelude to a price surge. And Michael Saylor does not hold back: $150,000 by the end of 2025. The man behind Strategy has never been so confident. And he has his reasons.

Converted Banks and More Accommodating Institutions: The Momentum of Bitcoin

Michael Saylor isn’t the only one sensing the wind change. Major financial institutions, long hostile to Bitcoin, now seem to be playing catch-up. JP Morgan, Wells Fargo, Bank of America: all are now exploring bitcoin-backed credit. A major turn.

It is in this climate that Strategy, Saylor’s company, received the very first B- credit rating from S&P. A first in Bitcoin history. “…We believe this is a very promising start because it represents institutional adoption of bitcoin-backed credit,” he explains.

The regulatory environment has also become more welcoming. The US Treasury now supports stablecoins to reinforce dollar dominance. The SEC wants to tokenize financial securities. And crypto-friendly personalities are no longer lacking in Washington.

I think the crypto industry has evolved over the past 12 months on two different sides. There is the digital capital side of the industry, and Bitcoin is the digital capital, a long-term store of value, and digital credit instruments are built on this capital. 

Michael Saylor

Saylor’s Weapons: Crypto Products Designed to Seduce Wall Street

To convert skepticism into action, Saylor launched four bitcoin-backed credit products: Strike, Strife, Stride, and Stretch. Each instrument suits a profile. From high yield at 12.5% to stable income without direct exposure to volatility, everything is designed to ease institutional capital entry into the BTC world.

Taxation is the other trump card in the strategy. These products distribute dividends treated as return of capital, which makes them non-taxable. 

So when you receive 10%, you receive 10% return in cash dividends. And what happens is your basis in the instrument is reduced by the cash dividend. 

The goal? To attract trillions of dollars seeking yield without legal or tax risk. And it works: more than 250 crypto treasury companies have appeared, compared to only one in 2020.

Saylor sees this expansion as a historic step, proof that every company will eventually hold digital assets, just as they adopted the Internet back then.

Michael Saylor, Bitcoin, and the Post-Human Future: The Accelerated Vision

Where some see a speculative asset, Saylor foresees an economic pillar in a world of AI. According to him, artificial intelligences will trade among themselves at the speed of light. For this, they will need a stable medium of exchange and an incorruptible store of value. US stablecoins for the first, bitcoin for the second.

This vision is not cyberpunk fantasy: it is grounded in facts. The stablecoin volume has already risen from $100 billion to $250 billion in 12 months. Tomorrow? A $10 trillion market in perpetual motion.

Saylor sees an unrelenting logic: 

If you want to launch something in cyberspace and make it live forever, how will you capitalize it? You will load it with Bitcoin. Bitcoin will continue to appreciate in value... Our expectation for now is that by the end of the year it should be around $150,000.

And for those wondering if this vision can withstand political storms, he recalls that President Trump himself had to rethink his position, re-opening the dialogue with China. The geopolitical climate remains uncertain, but the architecture of the future seems to be taking shape.

Some Data Marking a Turning Point

• $110,692: bitcoin price at time of writing;
• 250 DAT companies vs. 1 in 2020;
• Up to 12.5% net yield on Stride products;
• B- rating for Strategy by S&P;
• $10 trillion in stablecoins expected by Saylor in the coming years.

The last factor to consider? The US Federal Reserve has cut interest rates by 0.25%. A breath of fresh air for risk assets like bitcoin. In such a monetary environment, appetite for instruments like those of Strategy can only grow. If the planets keep aligning, Saylor’s prediction may not be so crazy.