Financial Markets Not Ready for Bitcoin-Backed Bonds – MicroStrategy CEO
The financial markets of the world are not ready for bonds backed by bitcoin (BTC) yet, according to the CEO of the enterprise software firm MicroStrategy, Michael Saylor. However, El Salvador’s planned “volcano bonds” could be a different story.
“I’d love to see a day where people eventually sell Bitcoin-backed bonds like mortgage-backed securities,” Saylor said in an interview with Bloomberg, while adding that he finds the market is “not quite ready for that right now.”
The comments from Saylor came shortly after his company secured a loan from the crypto-friendly bank Silvergate backed by bitcoin in MicroStrategy’s reserves for the purpose of buying even more bitcoin.
In Tuesday’s interview, Saylor called the loan “the next best idea” after a bitcoin-backed bond.
With capital from the loan, we have “effectively turned our bitcoin into productive collateral, which allows us to further execute against our business strategy,” Michael Saylor said when the new loan was announced.
Saylor, who is well-known as one of the world’s biggest bitcoin bulls, explained in the interview that although the market is not ready for a corporate bitcoin-backed bond, bitcoin bonds like the “volcano bond” planned by El Salvador could still be viable.
“There’s a lot of talk about the El Salvador Bitcoin bond. That’s a hybrid sovereign debt instrument as opposed to a pure Bitcoin-treasury play. That has its own credit risk and has nothing to do with the Bitcoin risk itself entirely,” Saylor said.
El Salvador last week said that its bitcoin bonds would likely be delayed until later this year, with Finance Minister Alejandro Zelaya hinting that market conditions are unfavorable for now, stating: “waiting for the right moment.”
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