{"id":38605,"date":"2025-07-24T15:16:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T15:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=38605"},"modified":"2025-07-24T15:16:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T15:16:36","slug":"apple-google-nations-will-dominate-bitcoin-base-layer-by-2035-michael-saylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=38605","title":{"rendered":"Apple, Google, Nations Will Dominate Bitcoin Base Layer By 2035: Michael Saylor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In an interview with BTC Sessions, MicroStrategy executive chairman Michael Saylor projected that Bitcoin\u2019s base layer will evolve into an institutional settlement rail dominated by the world\u2019s largest banks, technology platforms and sovereign actors. Responding to a forward\u2011looking question about how ordinary users will interact with Bitcoin over the coming years, Saylor sketched a future in which direct on\u2011chain activity becomes the province of \u201cmega\u201d institutions while retail usage migrates to layered infrastructure.<\/p>\n

Big Tech And Nations Will Dominate Bitcoin<\/h2>\n

\u201cI could see a world where every major bank and every major tech corp, maybe a Google and an Apple and a Microsoft\u2026 they\u2019re all settling or moving large amounts of Bitcoin around on the base layer,\u201d Saylor said<\/a>. He added that \u201cthe biggest users of the base layer would be Apple and Google and the US and Bank of China and Bank of Russia and Bank of England,\u201d alongside global commercial banks such as Citi, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Santander, Deutsche Bank, Swiss banks and the Bank of Japan.<\/p>\n

In that scenario, he continued, \u201cCit[i] would be moving billions of dollars of Bitcoin\u201d among large financial counterparties, and \u201cMicrosoft will move billions and tens of billions of [dollars of] Bitcoin between Microsoft and Google in order to work through some\u2026 technical issue.\u201d Payment networks would also participate: \u201cVisa, any of the payment networks, they\u2019ll have massive amounts of Bitcoin.\u201d<\/p>\n

Saylor framed the prospective structure of the ecosystem as stratified. The base network, he said, would ultimately host \u201c10 to 100,000 big financial institutions\u2026 settling large amounts,\u201d with dramatically higher transaction counts pushed to scaling layers: the Lightning Network<\/a> as a \u201chigh\u2011speed, high\u2011frequency\u201d Layer 2 stitching together potentially \u201ca 100,000 or a million websites or a million mobile apps,\u201d and above that a competitive field of custodial or semi\u2011open \u201clayer 3\u201d networks operated by exchanges, fintechs and consumer platforms such as \u201cCoinbase\u2026 Cash App\u2026 Visa\u2026 Microsoft<\/a> and Apple and Apple Pay.\u201d In Saylor\u2019s view, these Layer 3 environments could support billions of transactions, while end users interface with Bitcoin primarily through those intermediated services rather than by broadcasting base\u2011layer transactions themselves.<\/p>\n

The executive chairman emphasized that today\u2019s individual node operators and self\u2011custodians are \u201cearly pioneers,\u201d asserting that, as institutional settlement gains primacy, some of those early adopters who maintain their positions could become \u201cinsanely rich,\u201d whereas those who divest prematurely may later view that decision as \u201cunfortunate.\u201d His forecast rests on the assumption that Bitcoin should be treated as \u201cdigital capital<\/a>\u201d rather than day\u2011to\u2011day currency, with corporations and governments leveraging it as a long\u2011term reserve asset and settlement medium while fiat\u2011denominated instruments continue to function for pricing and transactional liquidity at higher layers.<\/p>\n

Saylor\u2019s comments extend his well\u2011known thesis that Bitcoin\u2019s maturation will be driven less by retail speculation and more by structural integration into global capital and payment systems. In the institutional end state he described, the presence of large technology companies, major commercial and central banks, and governments moving \u201clarge amounts of Bitcoin\u201d on\u2011chain would mark a shift in who directly touches the base protocol\u2014an evolution he portrays as the logical consequence of Bitcoin\u2019s consolidation as a neutral, high\u2011value settlement layer beneath a dense fabric of scaling and custodial services<\/p>\n

At press time, BTC traded at $117,363.<\/p>\n

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In an interview with BTC Sessions, MicroStrategy executive chairman Michael Saylor projected that Bitcoin\u2019s base layer will evolve into an institutional settlement rail dominated by the world\u2019s largest banks, technology platforms and sovereign actors. Responding to a forward\u2011looking question about how ordinary users will interact with Bitcoin over the coming years, Saylor sketched a future […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-38605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}