Saylor Calls for Digital Rights Framework to Support Next-Gen Economy

Strategy CEO Michael Saylor is calling for a new framework of digital rights to govern how individuals and companies create, own, transfer, and use digital assets. In his view, clear protections for digital ownership, financial privacy, competition, and everyday payments are essential for supporting the next generation of economic growth.

Saylor argues that people and companies must be free to create, issue, custody, transfer, and use digital assets without unnecessary barriers. He believes this is necessary for protecting privacy, fostering competition, and enabling individuals to build lasting wealth in an era shaped by digital intelligence.

The current U.S. tax rules can discourage people from using digital assets for everyday payments, Saylor says, as spending a digital asset can trigger the need to calculate and report a capital gain or loss. He has called on policymakers to introduce a meaningful de minimis exemption for ordinary digital asset transactions, suggesting that a threshold of $20 or $200 is too low for modern commerce.