{"id":629196,"date":"2026-07-14T13:53:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T13:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/strategy-became-a-symbol-of-the-dot-com-crash-could-history-repeat\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T13:53:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T13:53:19","slug":"strategy-became-a-symbol-of-the-dot-com-crash-could-history-repeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/strategy-became-a-symbol-of-the-dot-com-crash-could-history-repeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategy became a symbol of the dot-com crash: Could history repeat?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Strategy<\/p>\n

MicroStrategy blew up during the dot-com era, before Michael Saylor transformed it into the world’s largest corporate Bitcoin holder. Did he learn his lesson?<\/p>\n

In March 2000, Strategy executive chairman Michael Saylor watched more than $6 billion disappear from his fortune in a single day.<\/p>\n

MicroStrategy’s shares had plummeted<\/a> more than 60%, thrusting the thirty-five year old software entrepreneur into the center of the dot-com crash. <\/p>\n

The company later settled<\/a> civil fraud charges with the US Securities and Exchange Commission over its accounting practices without admitting or denying wrongdoing. MicroStrategy did not cause the dot-com bubble to burst, but the saga was one of the era’s high-profile corporate blowups and the company became a symbol of the periods excesses and risks. <\/p>\n

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MicroStrategy blew up during the dot-com era, before Michael Saylor transformed it into the world’s largest corporate Bitcoin holder. Did he learn his lesson? In March 2000, Strategy executive chairman Michael Saylor watched more than $6 billion disappear from his fortune in a single day. MicroStrategy’s shares had plummeted more than 60%, thrusting the thirty-five […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":629197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-629196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}