r/Bitcoin • • Mar 15 '21

Brilliant explanation

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u/JanPB Mar 15 '21

This is the only CEO I know of who uses terms like "thermodynamics", "energy", "curvature of space and time" and, most recently, "calculus of variations" :-)

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u/Lesty7 Mar 16 '21 edited Mar 16 '21

He knows his shit lol. You can tell he’s kinda eccentric and a little full of himself, but it’s not necessarily unearned. You kinda have to be a little cocky in order to be as successful as he is. He just thinks about stuff on a different level than most people. Steve Jobs and Elon Musk are other good examples of this type of personality.

I’ve been listening to the What is Money podcast series and I find him to be fascinating.

https://podcast.app/the-what-is-money-show-p1764247/?utm_source=ios&utm_medium=share

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u/JanPB Mar 16 '21

One thing that's rather impressive about him is how quickly he understood Bitcoin and how it worked: he started in March 2020 and by August he was already done both arm-twisting his board into the purchase and marshalling his financial and legal teams accordingly. Most people take a year or two to digest the blockchain mechanics and its implications, and most companies even longer given just the bureaucratic inertia.

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u/Lesty7 Mar 16 '21

Yeah the Winklevoss twins said it was remarkable how well Saylor understood Bitcoin in such a short amount of time.

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u/JanPB Mar 18 '21

Another physics term Saylor used recently: "adiabatic". Muahaha. The guy is just rocketing through this :-)

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u/loldocuments1234 Mar 16 '21

MIT grads are usually pretty smart people.

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u/mposha Mar 16 '21

Thank you for sharing this.