Cryptocurrencies

Michael Saylor Blasts Jim Chanos for Call to Short Strategy

“Bloomberg Crypto” covers the people, transactions, and technology shaping the world of decentralized finance. Today’sguests: Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor and Bloomberg’s Michael Regan.

Strategy’s Michael Saylor dismissed short-seller Jim Chanos’s recommendation to short the shares of the Bitcoin treasury company and buy the cryptocurrency because of the large premium the company’s common stock commands over the value of its token holdings.

“I don’t think he understands what our business model is,” Saylor, the executive chairman of Strategy, said during a Bloomberg TV interview on Tuesday. “We’re actually the largest issuer of Bitcoin-backed credit instruments in the world.”