Michael Saylor Made A Prediction About The iPad 12 Years Ago When Tablets Were In Their Infancy, Will His Similarly Bold Prophecy On Bitcoin Also Come True?
Michael Saylor Made A Prediction About The iPad 12 Years Ago When Tablets Were In Their Infancy, Will His Similarly Bold Prophecy On Bitcoin Also Come True?
Michael Saylor is regarded as one of the most influential advocates of Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), and his firm MicroStrategy Inc. (NASDAQ:MSTR) has evangelized the digital asset with its continued purchases.
Michael Saylor被认为是比特币（加密货币：BTC）最有影响力的倡导者之一，他的公司MicroStrategy Inc.（NASDAQ:MSTR）通过持续购买数字资产而成为了它的信徒。
The entrepreneur's ultra-bullish forecasts about the digital currency have been taken with a pinch of salt. But do you know he made similar bets on iPad and tablet computers when it wasn't even a thing?
这位企业家对数字货币的超级看法有点夸大其词。但你知不知道当平板电脑还不流行的时候，他也对iPad和平板电脑做了类似的赌注？
What Happened: Exactly 10 years ago on this day, Saylor called iPad, developed by Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), the "most underappreciated or underestimated new technology."
发生了什么：就在10年前的这一天，Saylor称由苹果公司（NASDAQ:AAPL）开发的iPad是“最不被赏识或最被低估的新技术”。
He famously said that iPad was the first device in history that completes directly with paper, and believed every literate person would "inevitably" end up with an iPad, or similar tablet computers.
他曾经说过，iPad是历史上第一台能够直接与纸张相竞争的设备，并认为每个有文化的人将“不可避免地”拥有一台iPad或类似的平板电脑。
The MicroStrategy co-founder then predicted that there would be around 250-300 million tablets in the market by 2015. Well, the reality exceeded his expectations, as the number soared to 840 million by 2014, and 1.28 billion by 2021, according to data from Statista.
MicroStrategy的联合创始人随后预测，到2015年市场上将有大约25000-30000万个平板电脑。事实超出了他的预期，根据Statista的数据，到2014年这一数字已经飙升至84000万，到2021年则达到12.8亿。
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Why It Matters: Saylor's optimistic forecast on tablet PCs highlighted his long-sighted view on emerging technologies.
Saylor对平板电脑的乐观预测凸显了他对新兴技术的长远看法。
He has expressed confidence that one Bitcoin would be worth more than a million in the near future, famously saying, "If Bitcoin's not going to zero, it's going to a million."
他表达了关于比特币的看好信心，并以此预言:“如果比特币不会跌至零，它将达到100万美元。”
His bullish sentiment has driven MicroStrategy's Bitcoin corporate reserve strategy, as a result of which the tech company is the world's largest owner of the digital currency, with holdings worth $13.41 billion at the time of writing.
他的看涨情绪推动了MicroStrategy的比特币公司储备策略，因此这家科技公司是世界上持有最多数码货币的公司，在撰写本文时其持股价值为134.10亿美元。
Price Action: At the time of writing, Bitcoin was trading at $59,231.08, up 3.06% in the last 24 hours, according to data from Benzinga Pro. Shares of MicroStrategy closed 0.89% higher at 1,301.77 during Tuesday's regular session.
价格走势：根据Benzinga Pro的数据，在撰写本文时，比特币的交易价格为59,231.08美元，过去24小时上涨了3.06%。MicroStrategy的股价在周二的常规交易中收涨0.89%，报1,301.77美元。
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