In CT, the easiest way to win an argument is to pick the timeframe that flatters your take. This is why Michael Saylor’s latest post landed so hard. Shift the starting line to August 2020, and Bitcoin stops looking like a messy trade and starts looking like what it has actually been: the top-performing major asset, and it’s not even close.

August 2020 matters because that was the moment corporate BTC adoption started getting real (aka “modern Bitcoin era”). Strategy (NASDAQ: $MSTR) made its first BTC purchase on August 11, 2020, the moment institutions really started showing up, ETFs became a thing, and more like a serious treasury asset.

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From that point, the chart Saylor referenced shows Bitcoin compounding at roughly 36% annualized, ahead of gold at 16%, the Nasdaq at 15%, the S&P 500 at 14%, real estate at 5%, while bonds came in negative. That is not hype. That is what happens when you stop measuring from a cherry-picked local top and look at the bigger trend.

Yes, shorter windows can look ugly. BTC is volatile, pullbacks are brutal, and sideways stretches test everyone’s conviction. But volatility does not erase outperformance. And as adoption kept maturing, the case only got stronger, especially after the SEC approved spot Bitcoin ETPs in January 2024 and opened a fresh bridge between traditional capital and BTC.

Zoom out, keep stacking sats, and let time do the heavy lifting.

What timeframe are you actually playing on?