Michael Saylo2026-10-08 13:45:18Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin turn traces back to three decades of engineering, software, and system thinkingA long-form MarsBit profile argues that Michael Saylor’s public transformation into one of Bitcoin’s most visible advocates did not begin in 2020, even though that was the year MicroStrategy started buying BTC at scale. Instead, the piece places his Bitcoin conviction inside a much longer arc: a childhood in an Air Force family shaped by discipline, years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology studying aerospace engineering and complex systems, the founding of MicroStrategy at 24, the boom and collapse of the dot-com era, and later work on mobile networks and software-driven industry shifts. The article presents Saylor as a figure formed by several threads at once: an engineer who prefers models and structure, a founder who wanted to build infrastructure rather than just products, and a science-fiction reader who was comfortable imagining worlds that did not yet exist. It links those traits to his later framing of Bitcoin not as a narrow financial instrument, but as a system-level technology with implications for property, capital, and the organization of the digital economy. Seen this way, Saylor did not simply discover Bitcoin late in his career. The argument is almost the reverse: when Bitcoin entered his field of view in 2020, it met someone whose earlier life had already prepared him to interpret it through the lenses of networks, scarcity, capital allocation, and long-range technological change.20
Douyin2026-09-08 08:42:00Douyin Overtakes WeChat in Per-User Monthly Time Spent, ByteDance Ecosystem Claims Largest Share of China's Mobile Internet TimeAccording to a Nomura report cited by Futu Niu, Douyin's average monthly time spent per user surpassed WeChat for the first time in July 2026, making it the top app in China by user engagement. ByteDance's app ecosystem (including Douyin, Doubao, Hongguo, Fanqie, TouTiao, etc.) collectively accounted for about 40.9% of total Chinese internet users' time, up from 33.6% a year earlier, surpassing Tencent's 29.1% share. While WeChat still leads in daily active users at 931 million versus Douyin's 714 million, Douyin's DAU growth rate of roughly 19% far outpaces WeChat's 3%. Douyin users also spend an average of 112-120 minutes per day on the app, compared to WeChat's 82-85 minutes.410
ByteDance2026-08-02 12:12:54ByteDance apps take 40.1% of mobile internet usage time, topping Tencent groupMonitoring service Dongcha Beating said Nomura Securities, in its report "China Internet and New Media: June 2026 App Tracking," cited QuestMobile data showing that ByteDance-affiliated apps accounted for 40.1% of user time among the Top 50 apps, which cover about 93% of total mobile internet usage time. The share marked the first time ByteDance crossed the 40% threshold. In the same data set, Tencent-affiliated apps fell to 29.7%. The figures were cited from QuestMobile and referenced by Nomura in its latest app-tracking report.2750
