Over the past seven days, we saw yet another unsuccessful attempt of Bitcoin to breach the coveted $40K mark definitively. Let’s roll back a little. Last weekend, the price was rather indecisive as it was struggling beneath $36K. All this changed on Sunday, however, when bulls stepped in and took control over the market. By...Read More
U.S. business intelligence firm MicroStrategy revealed plans to sell it Class A common stock for as much as $1 billion, with part of the proceeds possibly used for making more bitcoin purchases. Another Major Bitcoin Purchase? In a document filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday (June 14, 2021), MicroStrategy stated that...Read More
The business intelligence and analytics company announced the move on June 8 which CEO Michael Saylor tweeted on his feed a few hours later. The notes will be sold in a private offering to qualified institutional buyers and the offering is expected to close on June 14, 2021. The company announced the pricing of $500...Read More
Although MicroStrategy has already allocated more than $2 billion in the primary cryptocurrency, the business intelligence giant has no plans to stop buying. The firm announced plans to offer $400 million worth of senior secured notes due 2028 and to allocate the raised funds in BTC again. Ever since its initial purchase worth hundreds of...Read More
Volatility could be scary for some BTC investors, but it’s the price to pay for overperforming the S&P index 10x over a decade, said MicroStrategy’s CEO, Michael Saylor. He also described Elon Musk as “enthusiastic” about the bitcoin space following the latest criticism from Tesla’s CEO. Speaking on the enhanced volatility that bitcoin faced in...Read More
Michael Saylor’s NASDAQ-listed company continues with its initiative to purchase sizeable amounts of bitcoins at frequent intervals. The firm said earlier today it had allocated another $10 million in cash in BTC, and its total stash is over 92,000 coins. The founder and CEO of the business intelligence giant announced the latest purchase on Twitter...Read More
Despite the volatile market conditions, Michael Saylor’s business intelligence giant has doubled down on its BTC-related strategy. The firm bought another chunk of 271 bitcoins, and its total stash is now nearly 92,000 coins. The NASDAQ-listed company announced the latest purchase of 271 bitcoins on May 13th. The firm said it had bought the amount...Read More
Michael Saylor, co-founder, and CEO of the business analytics company MicroStrategy believes it is not wise to bequeath the trendy cryptocurrency Dogecoin to your grandchildren. In comparison, he outlined BTC’s potential and breached the significant differences between the primary cryptocurrency and the meme token. Saylor Warns About Dogecoin Investments In a recent interview, MicroStrategy’s leader...Read More
The CEO of MicroStrategy – Michael Saylor – outlined that the leading digital asset Bitcoin has no existential threats. According to him, the cryptocurrency will dominate the 21st century as a store of value. The Future For BTC Michael Saylor expressed his opinion about the primary cryptocurrency Bitcoin on a YouTube interview for Kitco News...Read More
Choosing stock of gold mining companies instead of shares of firms investing in bitcoin has caused an underperformance for BNY Mellon’s tech-focused funds. The giant US bank outlined MicroStrategy – the company owning over 90,000 bitcoins – as the biggest missed opportunity. BNY Mellon’s Funds Performance In recent filings with the US Securities and Exchange...Read More
A few weeks after launching its latest product – tradable stock tokens – Binance has decided to expand the portfolio with the shares of MicroStrategy, Apple, and Microsoft. The three new additions will be live by the end of April. Binance to Add MSTR, AAPL, and MSFT As CryptoPotato reported a few weeks back, the...Read More
MicroStrategy, a publicly-listed company spearheaded by Michael Saylor, who’s arguably one of Bitcoin’s biggest proponents, will now pay the board fees to its non-employee directors in bitcoin. According to a new filing with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), MicroStrategy has modified the compensation arrangements for non-employee directors. Per the document, they will...Read More
Popular business intelligence and software company MicroStrategy has continued to show no signs of slowing down on its bitcoin buying spree, adding more of the asset to its portfolio at every opportunity. The company’s CEO, Michael Saylor, recently took to Twitter to announce MicroStrategy’s latest bitcoin purchase, an addition of 253 BTC, to the company’s...Read More
Michael Saylor’s business intelligence giant has kept its promise to allocate additional funds in the primary cryptocurrency. MicroStrategy announced on Friday that it had added another chunk of 262 bitcoins to its sizeable stack of over 91,000 tokens. The company’s founder and CEO, Michael Saylor, took it to Twitter on Friday to inform of the...Read More
The giant social media platform Twitter has announced plans to raise $1.25 billion through a convertible senior notes offering. Although the company breached “corporate purposes” as the main reason, cryptocurrency proponents speculated if the firm could pull a MicroStrategy and allocate the funds in BTC. Twitter to Raise $1.25B According to a press release from...Read More
This week saw a serious correction in the total cryptocurrency market. This has resulted in Bitcoin falling below the $1 trillion market cap level. The price corrected by more than 20% at one point as it lost around $13,000 from the recent all-time high before correcting to where it currently trades at around $48K. In...Read More
The narrative that investors should allocate 1% of their portfolio in bitcoin as a hedge has received support from strategists representing the giant US multinational investment bank – JPMorgan Chase & Co. The analysts also highlighted the evaporating liquid supply, as giant institutions and corporations are purchasing substantial quantities rather rapidly. JPM Suggest: Put 1%...Read More
Having more than $3.3 billion in Bitcoin is not enouch for Michael Sayloer, … He’s addicted to (or in love with) Bitcoin and wants more of it, the cries of alarm by many financial market analysts. Speaking as a guest on a panel at Bloomberg Crypto Summit this Thursday, Saylor assured that right now, his...Read More
MicroStrategy, the company, spearheaded by one of Bitcoin’s biggest proponents, MicroStrategy, has just confirmed the purchase of another 19,452 BTC. In an announcement published today, February 24th, MicroStrategy, the largest independent publicly-traded business intelligence company, has revealed the purchase of 19,452 bitcoins. The company paid approximately $1,026 billion in cash for the BTC. The average...Read More
Leo Polovets of Susaventures mentioned in a curious tweet today that he increasingly feels that startups would benefit from copying Tesla and MicroStrategy by putting a fraction of their cash into Bitcoin, he noted, “Worst case you lose a few percent of your bank balance, best case you might extend your runway by 25+%. Asymmetric...Read More
Tesla’s latest purchase of Bitcoin worth $1.5 billion, assuming that it was purchased at $39,000 per Bitcoin, amounts to a total of 38,000 Bitcoins. Soon after the news was made public, the market’s retail traders responded to this purchase by flocking to the said purchase and increasing demand on spot and derivatives exchanges. CryptoQuant CEO...Read More
With Ethereum trading at a new all-time high, and PayPal enabling crypto payments for its 26 million merchants worldwide, this year has already been marked by significant events to signal crypto adoption. Bobby Ong, Co-founder of crypto data aggregator CoinGecko, recently shared his predictions for 2021. According to him, this will be the year that...Read More
Bitcoin is not volatile when compared to fiat currencies, college education, or even real estate, commented the Executive Chairman of NYDIG, Ross Stevens. During an appearance on MicroStrategy’s Bitcoin Educational Conference, the executive also predicted that his organization could top $25B in BTC under management by the end of the year. Stevens: BTC Is Not...Read More
MicroStrategy has been buying consistently throughout Bitcoin’s journey to $40,000 and beyond. What’s different this time, however, is that as of 31 January, cumulative treasury holdings captured a total of 5.85 percent of Bitcoin’s supply. So, how will this influence the current market cycle and the next? Source: Ecoinometrics Before adding Bitcoin to its balance...Read More
Most discussions on the subject of Bitcoin’s institutional involvement always hint at the common objective of these institutions. These organizations are clubbed together under one idea, that they believe in the assets, and they want to attain exposure into crypto through Bitcoin. It is not a false narrative, but over the past few months, most...Read More
The upcoming Bitcoin Educational Conference organized by Michael Saylor’s MicroStrategy has seen massive interest from CEOs and other executives. Saylor informed that all attendees would benefit from MicroStrategy’s playbook on how to utilize the BTC Monetary Network. CEOs Interested In MicroStrategy’s BTC Educational Campaign CryptoPotato reported in mid-January MicroStrategy’s latest pro-Bitcoin initiative, which aims to...Read More
Upon announcing its Q4 2020 results, the large NASDAQ-listed business intelligence company MicroStrategy vowed to continue with investing excess cash in bitcoin. Furthermore, Michael Saylor’s firm plans to explore other approaches that will enable it to allocate even more funds in BTC. MicroStrategy’s To Buy Even More BTC? Described as the “largest independent publicly-traded business...Read More
Nasdaq-listed Marathon Patent Group today bought 4,812.66 Bitcoin worth about $150 million for their balance sheet treasury reserves. Marathon’s chairman & CEO, Merrick Okamoto, believed that holding part of their Treasury reserves in Bitcoin will be a better long-term strategy than holding US Dollars, “similar to other forward-thinking companies like MicroStrategy.” As of 22 January...Read More
While institutions have fueled the current price rally, the contribution of MicroStrategy to Bitcoin’s current rally may be the most significant, and the traders that may have missed Bitcoin’s ascend to the new ATH above $41000 may make up for the ride, by earning returns through MSTR. It was instrumental for the rally that began...Read More
Bitcoin’s range-bound price rally has left many traders waiting for another dip. There have been a few swift recoveries in the current market cycle and institutions have supported the rebound in price, however, the question remains – for how long? When will it be time to book profits on the assets accumulated in the past...Read More
