TREE NEWS reports: Strategy founder Michael Saylor pushed back after investor Jason Calacanis dismissed bitcoin as “boring” during its rebound to $80,000 on Friday, calling the rally a “dead cat bounce” and questioning what bitcoin is after 17 years. Saylor said bitcoin is now a successful project with a $1.6 trillion market cap and the world’s most valuable digital asset.
Saylor Rebuts Bitcoin Skeptic, Calls Digital Capital the Killer App
The exchange captures a widening split in how bitcoin's maturation is framed: skeptics measuring it against its own volatile history versus proponents treating its accumulated market value as proof of a completed project. Saylor's framing of "digital capital" as the killer app is notable less as a rebuttal than as an attempt to shift the benchmark away from price action toward balance-sheet utility. That reframing matters for how corporates and treasuries justify holding it. Whether the market adopts that vocabulary, or keeps grading bitcoin on its rallies, is the open question.
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