Bitcoin up 33% annually over 6 years
Bitcoin has returned 33% per year over the past six years, outperforming gold (12%), the S&P 500 (15%), and the NASDAQ (18%).
Snapshot · The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Top Bitcoin Holder: Ask AI To Do THIS, Stop Trying To Out-Work The Robots! | Michael Saylor
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Aug 6, 2026
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Real Estate, Stocks, Gold, Bitcoin: Which Asset Wins?
At 15:13 · chapter starts 12:10
Bartlett methodically holds up each asset class — house, stocks, gold — and Saylor delivers a frank audit of each. Residential real estate is burdened by a 2% annual property tax in Florida, meaning you pay the full cost of the house in taxes every 36 years; commercial real estate is better because rents can offset costs and let the underlying asset appreciate at 7% annually. The S&P 500, as John Bogle identified, solves the illiquidity problem of real estate: it has returned roughly 15% over the past six years and around 10% over 100 years. Gold has returned 12% over six years. Bitcoin has returned 33%. The critical distinction, Saylor argues, is accessibility: people in Turkey, Argentina, or Nigeria cannot access the S&P 500, US real estate, or gold ETFs — but they can access Bitcoin. The rule: never invest in things robots and factories can produce infinitely (commodities, cotton, soybeans). Only invest in things with genuine scarcity.
Bitcoin vs. Gold vs. S&P 500 vs. Real Estate
Gold returns 12% a year. The S&P returns 15%. The NASDAQ returns 18%. Bitcoin returns 33%. All of them beat inflation. But only Bitcoin is universally portable, accessible to people in war zones and collapsing economies, and uncensorable.
What AI Does to Knowledge Work and Jobs
Lawyers, accountants, drivers, surgeons — Saylor says AI will replace most of them. But history shows every wave of automation also creates entirely new jobs nobody could have predicted. Podcaster didn't exist 20 years ago. The cure for dislocation is a free market with maximum degrees of freedom.
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