Michael Saylor: Bitcoin Keynote Speech, Apr 28, 2026

At the keynote on Apr 28, 2026, Michael Saylor said 10 of the 18 words Kalshi listed; Parrot’s count agreed with all 18 settlements. Quotes below are at most 25 words each.

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18 words · 10 settled yes · our count agreed on 18 of 18

backtest The probabilities on settled rows are a walk-forward backtest: the model as of before each event, computed after Parrot went live; they were not published at the time.

Listed words: result, our count under the market rule, the count over every speaker, whether they agree, and the probability (a walk-forward backtest on settled rows)
WordResultOur countAll speakersAgreesProbabilityMarket
Digital Credit Yes3737✓–new new word, no probability yet–
STRC / Stretch Yes3030✓–new new word, no probability yet–
Million Yes1414✓–new new word, no probability yet–
Institution / Institutional Yes88✓–new new word, no probability yet–
HODL / Hold Yes77✓–new new word, no probability yet–
Cycle Yes44✓–new new word, no probability yet–
ETF Yes33✓–new new word, no probability yet–
AI / Artificial Intelligence Yes11✓–new new word, no probability yet–
Satoshi Yes11✓–new new word, no probability yet–
Winter Yes11✓–new new word, no probability yet–
Bull No00✓–new new word, no probability yet–
Ethereum / ETH No00✓–new new word, no probability yet–
Hyperliquid No00✓–new new word, no probability yet–
Quantum No00✓–new new word, no probability yet–
Stock Market No00✓–new new word, no probability yet–
Strategic Reserve No00✓–new new word, no probability yet–
Vegas No00✓–new new word, no probability yet–
Trump No00✓–n=1 too little history for a probability–

Market prices are mid quotes from Kalshi and Polymarket, shown for context, may be delayed by several minutes and are not a signal. Quotes as of Oct 20, 2026 23:45 UTC.

Transcript

quotes of at most 25 words

Captions · machine-attributed · Bitcoin Magazine (YouTube) · Source · Quotes of at most 25 words; the full recording is on the publisher's official channel.

Machine-attributed. Speaker turns are labelled by a model, not the publisher.

11 matches for “Crypto”; 5 quoted, at least 25 words apart.

Michael Saylorspeaker6:43

…It's meant for retail investors. It's It's meant for digital native or crypto investors. It appeals to hedge funds and hybrid investors. It appeals to…

Michael Saylorspeaker13:05

…their backyard. And so, what's happened here is we have created a crypto reactor and we're using it to create credit in order to serve…

Michael Saylorspeaker19:10

…be stable. And so, you can see in the middle of the crypto or or the bear market here in the crypto winter, Bitcoin peaked…

Michael Saylorspeaker25:03

…curve like the 1-month Bitcoin bond. The the risk-free rate in the crypto ecosystem. So, what is the free market rate of capital or the…

Michael Saylorspeaker32:58

…adopted by institutional investors in credit and indexes. It's also being adopted crypto natively. It's also being adopted by a bunch of financial innovators. Our…

Where the listed words were said

Michael Saylorspeaker“Digital Credit” · 0:08

…uh the topic of my presentation is is the latest developments in digital credit, digital yield, digital money and the digital transformation of the capital…

Michael Saylorspeaker“STRC / Stretch” · 2:02

…one ever thought to put it into a credit instrument like like STRC. We use a standard tax treatment called return of capital. It's been…

Michael Saylorspeaker“Million” · 15:06

…a half billion dollars in about 9 months. It's currently got 400 million dollars almost of daily liquidity. Its volatility has fall fallen to 2.9%.…

Michael Saylorspeaker“Institution / Institutional” · 13:35

…who would do that? A retiree, a 3-year-old, a 12-year-old, a conservative institution, a company that has lots of consistent bills and if they don't…

Michael Saylorspeaker“HODL / Hold” · 9:57

…look at it. Uh Bitcoin is something for people that want to hold for 10 years. It's a roller coaster. It's got 30 ARR. It's…

Michael Saylorspeaker“Cycle” · 41:47

So, it it works out instead of 12 cycles where you have a a dividend cycle, a drawdown, it goes to 24 cycles. But 24…

Michael Saylorspeaker“ETF” · 36:04

…we'll see where index to credit. There's also been a ton of ETFs. 21 Shares uh embedded Stretch in an ETF and took it public…

Michael Saylorspeaker“AI / Artificial Intelligence” · 10:59

…without digital intelligence. So, if you're looking for a killer application of AI, it's taking digital intelligence and working on digital assets or digital capital…

Michael Saylorspeaker“Satoshi” · 1:06

…and by putting together a set of components that had been around, Satoshi was able to create an ideal capital asset, an asset that's non-sovereign…

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