{"id":77396,"date":"2023-04-18T11:38:23","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T08:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=77396"},"modified":"2025-09-10T23:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T20:06:12","slug":"michael-saylor-turns-email-into-a-lightning-network-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/michael-saylor-turns-email-into-a-lightning-network-address\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Saylor Turns Email into a Lightning Network Address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MicroStrategy founder Michael Saylor has turned his corporate e-mail into the <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/lightning-network-faster-cheaper-bitcoin-transactions\">Lightning Network<\/a> address.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MicroStrategy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MicroStrategy<\/a> converted my corporate email address into a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Lightning?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Lightning<\/a>\u26a1\ufe0f address and people keep sending me 21 sats\u2026? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FHde6RtA6N\">pic.twitter.com\/FHde6RtA6N<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Saylor\u26a1\ufe0f (@saylor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/saylor\/status\/1648048053742456837?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 17, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Now any user can use the billionaire&#8217;s email \u2014 saylor@microstrategy.com \u2014 to send bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>After Saylor&#8217;s post on Twitter, users began sending him small deposits of 21 sats.<\/p>\n<p>To create such a wallet, MicroStrategy used the Lightning Address protocol, which allows standard network addresses to be replaced with other Internet identifiers.<\/p>\n<p>Saylor is regarded as a staunch Bitcoin advocate. His company periodically buys the leading cryptocurrency \u2014 in early April MicroStrategy <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/microstrategy-buys-1045-btc-for-29-3-million\">purchased 1,045 BTC<\/a>. In total the organisation has accumulated 140,000 BTC.<\/p>\n<p>In late 2022 the company <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/microstrategy-to-roll-out-lightning-network-based-solutions-in-2023\">announced<\/a> a range of Lightning Network-based solutions. The firm is primarily focused on security protocols and corporate marketing.<\/p>\n<p>In February 2023, Saylor&#8217;s firm <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/microstrategy-reports-quarterly-loss-of-249-7-million\">reported a quarterly loss<\/a> of $249 million and <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/microstrategy-reports-raising-46-6-million-since-september-2022\">raised $46.6 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The founder of MicroStrategy, Michael Saylor, turned his corporate e-mail into a Lightning Network address.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[325,1208,1207],"class_list":["post-77396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-lightning-network","tag-michael-saylor","tag-microstrategy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"44","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77398,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77396\/revisions\/77398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}