Michael Saylor Calls for 'Bill of Digital Rights' to Shape Future Economy

Michael Saylor, the executive chairman of Strategy and one of Bitcoin's loudest corporate cheerleaders, is thinking big — really big. In a newly published essay, Saylor laid out what he calls a 'bill of digital rights,' a framework he believes could define how prosperity gets built in the digital economy of tomorrow.

At the heart of his argument is a bold ambition: enabling 10 million new companies to raise capital. That's not a typo. Saylor is essentially arguing that the current financial rails are leaving enormous amounts of human entrepreneurship on the table, and that a set of clearly defined digital rights could change that by opening up access to capital markets in ways that traditional systems simply don't allow.

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Think of a 'bill of digital rights' kind of like the original Bill of Rights, but for your economic life online. The idea is that individuals and businesses should have protected, codified freedoms when it comes to owning, transferring, and building wealth using digital assets. It's a vision where the rules of the road are set in a way that invites participation rather than shuts it out.

Saylor's essay is equal parts philosophical manifesto and policy pitch. While he didn't lay out a step-by-step legislative blueprint in what was shared, the underlying message is clear: without intentional design, the emerging digital economy risks replicating the same gatekeeping that has locked ordinary people and small businesses out of wealth creation for decades. For crypto advocates, this kind of thinking represents exactly the mainstream legitimacy push they've been waiting for.

Whether Saylor's vision gains traction with lawmakers or regulators remains to be seen, but given his track record of turning bold Bitcoin bets into boardroom strategy, it would be unwise to write him off as just another tech dreamer. Continue reading at Cointelegraph.