Simply Bitcoin Michael Saylor Explains Why All Money Flows Into Bitcoin | Beyond Bitcoin
Jan 24, 2026
Michael Saylor, tech entrepreneur and MicroStrategy leader who champions Bitcoin as corporate treasury, explains capital as energy flowing to lower-energy monetary states. He uses a waterfall and hydroelectric metaphor to describe risk, volatility, and predictable capital migration. Discussion covers institutional shifts, Davos signals, and why firms are repositioning toward Bitcoin.
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Capital Behaves Like Flowing Energy
- Michael Saylor frames capital as economic mass that flows to lower-energy monetary states like water down a waterfall.
- Volatility is the turbulence of that flow, not evidence the movement will stop.
The 500 Trillion Gallon Lake Example
- Saylor uses a mountain lake and hydroelectric dam example to illustrate predictable resource flows and engineered capture of energy.
- He maps the lake's 500 trillion gallons to global assets and the dam to Bitcoin as a lower-energy monetary state.
Bitcoin As Lower-Energy Monetary State
- Saylor argues Bitcoin is a more energy-efficient monetary state attracting assets from real estate, bonds, and art.
- Direction matters more than price: capital moves from weak, politically managed systems to structurally fixed stores of value.