The architect of the company’s audacious Bitcoin-hoarding strategy explains why he calls the crypto “a flow of money from the 20th century to the 21st century.”

MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) has been public since the late 1990s. However, the company's aggressive foray into Bitcoin has made it a bonafide market beater in recent years; the stock has soared more than 700% over the past year alone and more than 2,

Shares in MicroStrategy, the largest corporate holder of bitcoin, initially jumped and then fell Monday after the software company said it had bought $5.4 billion of the cryptocurrency.