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Three-year-old Lily Knight interviewed Michael Saylor on April 13 about his thoughts on Bitcoin and his plans for the future.
Three-year-old Lily Knight, âthe worldâs youngest Bitcoin educator,â interviewed billionaire MicroStrategy founder Michael Saylor for her YouTube channel in a video that dropped on Tuesday.
In the interview, Knight noted that Saylorâs accumulation of more than $2 billion worth of Bitcoin since August 2020 had been a âballsy move.â
The toddler and unconfirmed âhodlerâ became something of a viral sensation in the crypto space in mid-February after she (aided by her parents) published a video explaining Bitcoinâs dynamics using Skittles candy.
The video caught the attention of Saylor and fellow crypto billionaire Tyler Winklevoss, and both retweeted the video. Winklevoss added that âLily, a 3-year-old, understands Bitcoin better than most central bankers.â
Knightâs father noted in a Reddit thread that the âridiculous ideaâ to interview Saylor came after he had reached out to thank the corporate worldâs biggest Bitcoin cheerleader for retweeting the video. Saylor was responsive to the idea. Her father revealed that the video required a lot of editing, as he had to âplead and bribeâ Lily to sit still, as they pre-recorded the questions for the MicroStrategy founder to answer later:
âWe recorded her side of the interview and then zoomed with him and played her questions, pausing after each one for him to answer. I wish we could do it live, but sheâs so unpredictable at this age .. she just might break out into a Frozen song or something lol Maybe when sheâs a little older.â
I don't normally get nervous speaking about #Bitcoin, but it is almost impossible to get an invite to appear on the @LilyKnightShow. https://t.co/FVL9lWTTce
â Michael Saylor (@michael_saylor) April 12, 2021
The first question Lily asked was: âWhen did you first buy Bitcoin? What convinced you to buy?â Saylor said that heâd been searching for new treasury strategies to preserve shareholder value in March 2020 due to a âgnawing suspicion that the money was broken.â Saylor added that:
âI went on a mad quest to find a solution. And I was delighted to discover Bitcoin, a store of value over long periods of time. So, once I discovered Bitcoin and understood all of its characteristics as a digital monitoring network, I started buying it and I havenât stopped.â
The young âcrypto educatorâ said that âa lot of people are confused by Bitcoinâ and asked Saylor: âWhat do you think is the biggest misconception?â The billionaire said people often characterize Bitcoin as purely an investment idea or speculative asset; however, he describes it as the âworldâs first monitoring networkâ:
âBitcoin is the worldâs first digital monitoring network, and itâs a technology. And when you start thinking of it as a better technology for money, then you realize that itâs not just a trade. Itâs actually a way to think about the world.â
This may have gone over Lilyâs head.
She finished up by asking: âWhatâs next for you?â to which Saylor responded heâs looking forward to doing everything he can to spread Bitcoin to billions of people and also to educate the world on the benefits of Bitcoin.
âAnd when I get some free time, Iâm going to buy myself some more Bitcoin,â he added.
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