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Michael Saylor says ChatGPT helped design a new Bitcoin-backed security

Diary of a CEO · Top Bitcoin Holder: He Asked AI to Build Something That NEVER Existed, Here's What Happened! · August 6, 2026
Michael Saylor says ChatGPT helped design a new Bitcoin-backed security
Diary of a CEO
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Top Bitcoin Holder: He Asked AI to Build Something That NEVER Existed, Here's What Happened!
"So, we used AI to design a a convertible preferred stock called STRK. when we did it, no one had ever created a preferred stock uh that was backed by Bitcoin before and uh and we'd never issued it."
MicroStrategy founder Michael Saylor says he used ChatGPT to help design a new convertible preferred stock, STRK, which he describes as a Bitcoin-backed instrument. He frames it as a novel hybrid between equity and debt after he says the firm had “maxed out” both equity markets and the convertible bond market for raising capital to buy more Bitcoin.
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Top Bitcoin Holder: He Asked AI to Build Something That NEVER Existed, Here's What Happened!

August 6, 2026 · 1h 39m · 7 Egleze moments
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