“Pick your fighter,” Bitcoin evangelist Michael Saylor claimed on X (formerly Twitter) on April 18th.
Saylor, co-founder and executive chairman of MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR), has reformed his strategy and highlighted the surprising 2,466% return his company has provided since he began acquiring Bitcoin in August 2020. He called it a “BSE Return.”
Bitcoin Standard Era (BSE) is a conceptual indicator introduced by a strategy that refers to periods after August 10th, 2020. This refers to the time when the company adopted Bitcoin as its main Ministry of Finance reserve assets. This is an epic way to tell everyone that the company operates on Bitcoin standards.
BSE Return calculates the amount of shares in the strategy have increased in value since August 10, 2020. MSTR shares opened on August 10, 2020 at $12.34 and closed on April 17, 2025 at $317.20, exceeding 2,400%.
In contrast, all the spectacular seven strains were far behind MSTR at 808% Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA), 155% Elon Musk’s Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA), 105% Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG), and AT-MIC (NASDAQ: GOOG) on Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: MICROSOF (MSAT) AT-MIC (NASDAQ: GOOG) on MSTR. (NASDAQ: AAPL) 75%, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) 10%.
Meanwhile, Coinbase Global (NASDAQ:COIN), which debuted on April 14, 2021 at an open price of $381, ended on April 17, 2025 at $175.02, reflecting a decline of over 50%. Coinbase is the leading US crypto exchange
The strategy is Bitcoin’s largest corporate holder in the world and is well known for its aggressive Bitcoin acquisition strategy. To date, the company holds 531,644 BTC worth $449.4 billion.
Saylor is a powerful Bitcoin Bull, predicting that cryptocurrency will reach a price of $13 million in 20 years.
However, Bitcoin itself has provided a 614% return since August 2020 and was trading at $84,537.58 at press, following Kraken’s price supply.