Earlier today I finished listening to Michael Saylor’s talk at Binance Blockchain Week in Dubai, and it honestly felt like a mini masterclass in modern corporate finance using Bitcoin as the core asset.
I’ve heard him speak many times about “the future of money” and why he believes in BTC, but this presentation went deeper. He laid out step by step how a company can transform itself by acquiring Bitcoin and putting it on the balance sheet, then using that as a foundation to build new products and long-term shareholder value. He made it sound simple, which usually means he has spent an insane amount of time thinking through the hard parts behind the scenes.
I can imagine a lot of treasury teams, family offices, and even founders on the fence watching that talk and thinking, “Maybe we really should become a Bitcoin company.”
Alongside Saylor’s approach, there are other teams taking a slightly different path, like ABTC, the American Bitcoin Company.
From what I understand, they are leaning into the mining side instead of just buying BTC from the market. Their goal is still the same, to grow the share of Bitcoin on their balance sheet, but they focus on mining around 10 BTC per day using liquid-cooled miners in Texas powered by clean energy.
To me, that feels like a slower but more sustainable way to accumulate BTC. They do not have to dump their coins to survive every month because they are backed by equity and access to capital markets, while the BTC they mine becomes a kind of digital reserve they can hold for the long run.
So on one side, you have Saylor showing how to convert cash into Bitcoin and build a financial product around it. On the other, you have ABTC turning energy and infrastructure into a steady BTC stream.
Two different strategies, same end game, turn Bitcoin into the foundation of a modern treasury.
The whole time I was listening, my mind kept drifting back to Hive and HBD.
Because in a way, what Saylor and ABTC are doing at a corporate level, Hive already offers at an individual level. We already have the building blocks for someone to quietly build their own “personal treasury” using two simple tools, Hive Power and HBD savings.
Together, these two already give investors different “risk buckets” inside a single ecosystem, the growth engine through HP, and the yield and stability through HBD.
For me, that is already a strong enough reason for someone to look at Hive seriously, especially if they are the type of person who likes to build positions slowly over time instead of chasing pump coins.
Another thought that kept replaying in my head, Hive is actually ahead of its time in some ways.
We have:
When I compare that with what is being pitched on stage in big conferences, I sometimes feel like Hive is already living in the future that other projects are still trying to design on slides.
The missing piece is not the tech, it is attention.
This brings me to the marketing side.
After hearing all these “Bitcoin as a corporate treasury” stories, it is tempting to dream of big institutions and public companies flooding into Hive as well, but personally I do not see that as Hive’s sweet spot right now.
The real strength of Hive is the community layer, the regular investors, creators, curators, and small stackers who show up every day, even when the price is down and nobody on Crypto Twitter is talking about us.
That is why, if I had to choose, I would rather see Hive marketed to:
Big institutions might come one day, or maybe not, but Hive’s DNA is already aligned with people like us, creators, gamers, bloggers, and small investors building something slowly together.
So yes, Saylor’s talk was inspiring, and ABTC’s mining strategy is impressive, but at the end of the day, most of us are not running public companies.
What we can do is build our own mini balance sheet on-chain.
For me, that balance sheet has two main lines:
It is simple, it is accessible, and it all sits on top of a social blockchain where my content, my relationships, and my earnings are tied together.
No matter how loud the Bitcoin narrative gets, I always find myself coming back to Hive because it gives me the same feeling of “building something for the long term,” but in a way that is actually usable in my daily online life.
This is not financial advice, of course. It is just how I see things as a small investor and long-time Hive user.
For now, I will keep learning from the big BTC players while quietly stacking and participating here on Hive.
Because I truly believe the tech is ready, the tools are here, and the community is already proving what is possible.
We just need the rest of the world to notice.
Hive on.
