At BTC Prague 2025, Strategy Executive Chair Michael Saylor told a large crowd of bitcoin supporters he expects the leading cryptocurrency to climb to $21 million per coin within 21 years, growing roughly 21% annually as adoption spreads from Capitol Hill to Wall Street.
Strategy Founder Calls Bitcoin the Best Asset of the Century
Saylor opened his keynote, titled “The Power of 21,” by contrasting bitcoin’s 55% rise last July with lagging returns for the Nasdaq, S&P 500, and even gold. He argued that despite bitcoin’s trillion-dollar market capitalization, it still represents less than 0.1% of global wealth, leaving a great deal of room to expand.
He credited “extraordinary” developments over the past 11 months for quickening that trajectory. Saylor pointed to a U.S. administration that now publicly backs bitcoin (BTC), a roster of pro-crypto Cabinet officials, and three bills moving through Congress: the Clarity Act, the Genius Act, and the Bitcoin Act.
He also highlighted $150 billion in recent Wall Street inflows tied to 1.4 million BTC as evidence of deepening institutional interest. Performance figures, he said, speak for themselves: bitcoin has advanced 61% in the past year and averages a 56% annualized return this decade—more than double returns for both the S&P 500 and the so-called Magnificent Seven.
“Only one asset clears the 13% cost-of-equity hurdle,” Saylor told the audience, contending that corporations are awakening to the math.
Projecting forward, Saylor forecast a 28.5% compound annual return tapering toward 21% as bitcoin’s market value approaches “hundreds of trillions.” Volatility, now in the mid-40% range, should keep cooling yet remain higher than the stock market’s VIX reading of 16—volatility, however, he called it “vitality,” and insisted it is not a bug.
“What will you do with this 21‑year head start?” Saylor asked the BTC Prague audience. “You possess information that 99.8% of global capital does not yet grasp.”
The Strategy executive added:
Build a money‑making machine, plug it into the Bitcoin network, and compound extraordinary wealth. You can change the destiny of your family, your community, even humanity
The executive laid out three primary wealth-building strategies: dollar-cost averaging $50,000 a year in BTC, employing long-term leverage at rates below 10%, and adopting a bitcoin-treasury corporate model that sells small equity stakes at premium valuations. Under favorable assumptions, he claimed, a disciplined mix could turn $2 million into more than $700 million over two decades.
Saylor credited early supporter Hal Finney for envisioning eight-figure prices in 2009 and declared that the network has reached “criticality,” immune to shutdown. He argued that broader participation remains limited— BTC still accounts for only 0.2% of global wealth—but said that gap signals an untapped upside rather than a missed opportunity.
Closing the 45-minute address, Saylor urged attendees to craft a 21-year plan, ignore daily price swings, and “feed the machine” of the Bitcoin network. “Volatility is Satoshi’s gift,” he said, framing price turbulence as the equalizer that keeps bitcoin within reach of everyday savers.
Source: Bitcoin
