Where Money Goes To Die

SKU: 9781049208442
Where Money Goes To Die by Jaegur Martin

Where Money Goes To Die

SKU: 9781049208442
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Michael Jerry Saylor’s MIT thesis was a blueprint for the financial games he played. While the timid wait for fairness or cosmic reciprocity to balance the scales, Saylor was a "prime mover" who believed individual sovereignty meant making your own rules and creating perceptions that the collective would buy into. Perception is the currency of power. If price is perception, then the game is being played in the realm where perception is reality. Perception is a variable that can be managed and if a system will not let you change it, the only moral option is to game it. This psychological financial thriller traces Saylor’s trajectory from the delirium of the ‘90s stock market successful IPO, Through the intoxicating heights of the dot-com boom, as MicroStrategy soared and paper fortunes multiplied, Saylor embodied the American dream of wealth without limits. Then, in one cataclysmic day, six-billion-dollars vanished along with his reputation. This audacious billionaire’s big bitcoin bet is the ultimate iteration of this philosophy. Saylor saw the dollar melting—not as an abstract economic theory, but as a systemic failure. To Saylor, Bitcoin isn't an alternative currency; it is a scarce financial asset. Saylor has turned MicroStrategy into a "Bitcoin standard" for corporate America, using debt and equity to accumulate three-and-a-half-percent of the total supply, and climbing. Part character study, part pulse-pounding cautionary tale, this is about the seductive pull of profit and the battle between human connection and individual ambition. Whether you see cryptocurrency as revolution or absurdity, you cannot ignore what’s currently unfolding: a drama as old as capitalism itself, playing out in real time with stakes higher than ever. Some fortunes are measured in dollars. Some in Bitcoin. Others in what we give up to acquire them.

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Publisher Date: 2025-11-17
Publisher: Hardly Read Press
Pages: 196
Language: English

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