Tech mystic bets it all on bitcoin

hen cryptocurrency prices were plummeting in June, sending billions of dollars up in smoke, one of bitcoin’s noisiest evangelists vowed he would “continue to HODL” – hold on for dear life – “through adversity”. A noble sentiment, perhaps. But arguably Michael Saylor had little choice. Having strapped his data analytics company MicroStrategy – founded in 1989, and his lifetime’s work – to an “all-or-nothing” bet on bitcoin, his only