Saylor Seeks Digital Rights Bill to Unlock AI-Era Capital Markets

Michael Saylor, Strategy Executive Chairman, is calling for a 'bill of digital rights' that would protect individuals and companies' ability to create, issue, hold, transfer, and use digital assets. This proposal extends his Bitcoin-focused investment philosophy into a broader framework for how digital capital markets should operate.

The bill of digital rights would grant five freedoms: creating digital assets, issuing them for business financing, holding them directly or through a custodian, transferring them between people and platforms, and using them for spending, investment, income generation, or borrowing. Saylor argues that an asset's value depends on its owner's ability to use it.

This proposal goes beyond protecting ownership of Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies, applying the principle to digital securities, tokenized capital, and digital dollars. It aims to enable 10 million new companies to raise capital by creating a framework capable of funding businesses and moving capital more freely.

Saylor's argument is tied to AI-driven disruption, which could sharply increase economic productivity but requires financial infrastructure that can fund new businesses and move capital more freely. He ties the proposal directly to his five-layer digital asset framework, which places Bitcoin underneath credit, equity, and other financial instruments.