Deep dive: How Michael Saylor came back from losing $6B in 1 day

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Bitcoin has multiple personalities, equal parts money, freedom, resistance and hope.

MicroStrategy chairman Michael Saylor sits below all of them as bitcoin’s id — its rawest instincts, personified.

Thursday marked the 25th anniversary of Saylor losing $6 billion in one day ($11 billion adjusted for inflation) as the dot-com bubble burst. That event was among the biggest single-day personal losses in human history until that point. 

This is his comeback story.

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