The largest corporate bitcoin holder has filed a new filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission that will essentially allow it to purchase more BTC for up to $500 million. The news comes as the cryptocurrency surged past the $20,000 level and jumped to a new two-week high. The filing with the securities regulator...Read More
The attorney general of the District of Columbia (DC), Karl Racine, accused Michael Saylor of failing in his tax obligations while living in DC while also alleging that his company, business intelligence giant MicroStrategy, aided Saylor’s tax avoidance. The MicroStrategy executive is one of the biggest advocates of bitcoin and has remained bullish on the...Read More
The former Chief Executive Officer of MicroStrategy – Michael Saylor – abdicated from his post and took another role at the firm. He will serve as an Executive Chairman of the Board, particularly focused on bitcoin advocacy. The news positively impacted MicroStrategy’s shares, surging by 15% within 48 hours after the announcement. Earlier this week,...Read More
Michael Saylor – CEO and founder of the largest corporate BTC holder MicroStrategy – reiterated his bullish stance on the company’s bitcoin strategy and, once again, shook off the rumor regarding a margin call hitting some of the firm’s holdings. Saylor restated his commitment to continue purchasing bitcoin as well. On the Bitcoin Strategy Despite...Read More
Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) has revealed a sweeping U.S. crypto legalization and regulation bill. Her lead advisor for the initiative, MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor, believes bitcoin is a commodity, not a security. The U.S. crypto bill seems to have the support among crypto industry insiders of both Bitcoin maximalists and the Ethereum / DeFi /...Read More
Octagon Networks – a cyber security company headquartered in Addis Ababa – converted its entire balance sheet and all its liquid assets into the primary cryptocurrency. In addition, it embraced bitcoin as a payment method for its services. ‘Bitcoin Will Lead the World Toward a Better Future’ The Ethiopia-based Octagon Networks declared its firm support...Read More
The frantic price action in the cryptocurrency market does not seem to faze the uber-bullish billionaire CEO of tech firm MicroStrategy. Michael Saylor has yet another bold prediction for Bitcoin, even as his favorite cryptocurrency struggles to hold on to the $30,000-mark. The exec, who started to build up his Bitcoin reserve in 2020, reiterated...Read More
Prompted by the ongoing crash of the cryptocurrency market, Michael Saylor’s company – MicroStrategy – is now in a state of unrealized loss regarding its bitcoin holdings. The organization is the largest corporate holder of the primary digital asset, owning nearly 130,000 BTC. Despite the grim condition of the industry, Michael Saylor remains bullish, predicting...Read More
Michael Saylor – CEO of the software platform MicroStrategy – said investing in his company is almost like allocating funds in the still nonexistent in the USA – Bitcoin spot ETF. His organization is known as one of the most prominent BTC HODLers as it owns over $5.5 billion worth of the primary cryptocurrency. MicroStrategy...Read More
In a letter addressed to MicroStrategy’s stockholders on Thursday, the company’s CEO Micheal Saylor doubled down on his conviction of continuing its years-long bitcoin buying spree. The paper aimed to pave the foundation for the Annual Meeting of Stockholders scheduled on May 22nd, 2022. The CEO also promised that MicroStrategy, the publicly traded company with...Read More
Michael Saylor, the CEO of Microstrategy, and Cathie Wood, CEO of Arch Invest, held a panel at the Miami 2022 Bitcoin conference on Thursday. The two tech investors shared an optimistic vision for the largest cryptocurrency, setting ambitious price targets. “People ask me if I’m still bullish on Bitcoin. I am more bullish than ever...Read More
Michael Saylor, CEO of business intelligence firm MicroStrategy, believes that the financial market is not ready to have a Bitcoin-backed bond. Meanwhile, El Salvador has postponed the launch of its BTC-backed volcano bonds. Now is Not the Time for a Bitcoin-Backed Bond In a recent interview with Bloomberg, the MicroStrategy CEO, while not generally opposed...Read More
Some regulatory bodies worldwide are becoming more oppressive and hostile towards Bitcoin and digital assets. This has been exacerbated by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, as policymakers mistakenly think that the former will suddenly switch to using cryptocurrencies. Other watchdogs are growing concerned about the excessive energy demands of proof-of-work Bitcoin mining (though it still...Read More
The NASDAQ-listed software giant will have a two-day virtual event to educate large businesses about the merits coming from putting BTC on their balance sheets and many more initiatives related to the cryptocurrency. Michael Saylor, MicroStrategy’s CEO and a prominent bitcoin bull, announced the event on his Twitter account on Sunday, informing that it will...Read More
A confirmed scam address impersonating MicroStrategy’s Michael Saylor has received over $1.1 million in bitcoin in January alone. The CEO of the NASDAQ-listed company later revealed that his team reports such addresses almost constantly but to little-to-no avail. Impersonating scams in the crypto industry are a growing threat in which the perpetrators pretend to be...Read More
MicroStrategy – the company, spearheaded by one of the most popular and prominent Bitcoin permabulls, Michael Saylor – announced today that it had bought another $94 million worth of BTC. MicroStrategy has definitely made a name for itself in the past couple of years when it comes to acquiring BTC. Today, Saylor announced that the...Read More
Impersonation scams are a growing threat in the cryptocurrency community, and a large number of victims continue to fall for them. The latest such example involved MicroStrategy’s CEO, and someone sent two BTC to a fake giveaway address using his name. In giveaway scams, bad actors typically impersonate a well-known figure and promote deceiving campaigns...Read More
The NASDAQ-listed tech giant, spearheaded by Michael Saylor, continues its BTC buying spree after another substantial purchase worth more than $80 million. Michael Saylor, one of the most prominent bitcoin advocates, who is also the founder and CEO of MicroStrategy, announced the latest purchase earlier on December 9th. The company has accumulated another 1,434 coins...Read More
The US Securities and Exchange Commission’s approval of two Bitcoin futures ETFs last week has cemented the asset class among institutional investors. They can now get exposure without having any technical knowledge of it whatsoever. Financial advisors can now also allocate a proportion of client portfolios to Bitcoin. MicroStrategy CEO and Bitcoin bull Michael Saylor...Read More
Business intelligence company MicroStrategy, spearheaded by Michael Saylor, has purchased over 5,000 bitcoin worth $242.9 million. Thus, the firm’s total BTC holdings have increased to over 114,042. MicroStrategy founder and CEO Michael Saylor announced the latest bitcoin purchase via Twitter on Monday, September 13th. According to the executive, the business intelligence firm purchased 5,050 BTC, at...Read More
The US-based NASDAQ-listed business intelligence company MicroStrategy continues with its bitcoin acquisition spree, as the company recently purchased over 3,900 BTC. Consequently, the firm now holds nearly 109,000 bitcoins in total. Tweeting on Tuesday (August 24th, 2021), MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor revealed that the firm has added 3,907 bitcoin to its stash, bought at an...Read More
The NASDAQ-listed software giant MicroStrategy has seen a total impairment loss of nearly $700 million in Q2 2021 from its massive bitcoin investments. As this is only on paper, though, the company pledged to double down on its BTC strategy and continue to accumulate more. MicroStrategy’s Q2 BTC Impairment Loss Michael Saylor’s brainchild has become...Read More
Mike Tyson, one of the greatest boxers in history, has asked his millions of followers on Twitter if they prefer bitcoin or ether. This comes shortly after the popular rapper Busta Rhymes asked around for trustworthy sources for education about digital assets. Iron Mike: Bitcoin or Ethereum? The 55-year-old, considered by many as the greatest...Read More
A few weeks after the initial filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Capital Group’s allocation in MicroStrategy has become official. The giant financial firm with over $2 trillion in AUM has bought nearly 1,000,000 shares in the business intelligence company holding more than 100,000 bitcoins on its balance sheet. The financial services company...Read More
During a recent interview with Bloomberg, the prominent BTC bull spoke about the adverse short-term effects of China’s recent crackdown on Bitcoin mining. While he acknowledged the hash rate and price declines, Saylor believes this ‘mistake’ from the Asian country will provide an excellent opportunity for others. As CryptoPotato reported previously, the world’s most populated...Read More
The CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and The Boring Company, has taken another humoristic stab at BTC maxis by asking how many are needed to change a light bulb. The wave of comments didn’t disappoint from names like Michael Saylor, Dan Held, Raoul Pal, and more. Ever since the start of the year when Musk said...Read More
Michael Saylor’s business intelligence giant now owns over 100,000 bitcoins after the company purchased another chunk of 13,005 BTC for nearly $500 million. Consequently, the firm now has 0.5% of all bitcoins ever to exist. The founder and CEO of the NASDAQ-listed company announced the latest purchase earlier on June 21st. It came after the...Read More
Michael Saylor’s initiative to continue buying more and more bitcoins makes no sense, argued the full-time BTC basher – Peter Schiff. Following the latest development coming from MicroStrategy, in which the company outlined plans to allocate another $1 billion in the asset, the prominent economist called Saylor “truly insane.” Schiff to Saylor: Truly Insane If...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
During the ongoing Bitcoin 2021 conference, Michael Saylor spoke with long-time BTC proponent Max Keiser on why and how he started buying, the asset’s merits, and what cannot happen with it. Saylor, who has purchased tens of thousands of bitcoins for himself and the company he runs – MicroStrategy – in the past year, outlined...Read More
