Michael Saylor responds to MSCI potentially removing MSTR: Not that important to Strategy, hopes MSCI will reconsider

Strategy founder Michael Saylor recently responded in an interview with Bloomberg to the possibility that MSCI's new index rules could exclude MSTR. He said the move would have limited impact on Strategy because the amount of capital the company controls is relatively small, but he is disappointed with MSCI's stance so far. Saylor noted that oil, natural gas, land, and machines are all treated as capital, yet Bitcoin is not recognized, which is essentially a value judgment and a bias against digital assets. He believes MSCI's approach is like that of an unregistered financial advisor and sets a "bad precedent" for the entire industry, and he hopes MSCI will reconsider. Saylor stressed that digital assets represent the future, and MSCI may not want to participate in that future, but investors will not agree, and neither will the United States; if MSCI abandons its proposal to exclude MSTR, it would benefit the entire industry.