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
Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin bet appears to be far from over as his company MicroStrategy has acquired even more BTC despite the crypto price experiencing a significant retrace over the last couple of days. MicroStrategy has added more Bitcoin to its balance sheet according to an announcement issued on Friday (Jan. 22, 2021). MicroStrategy has purchased...Read More
As of 22 January 2021, publicly-traded company, MicroStrategy increased its Bitcoin holding by making an additional purchase of the asset. According to its latest announcement, MicroStrategy acquired $10 million worth of Bitcoin, paying roughly $31,808 per coin on average. The firm managed to gain from its earlier holdings during bull market conditions. At the very...Read More
Amid the recent warnings issued by the UK Financial Conduct Authority on crypto scams, the giant asset manager Ruffer Investment has defended its decision to allocate about 2.5% of its portfolio in BTC. The UK-based company with over $27 billion AUM said that bitcoin’s adoption is still early as most investors are “desperate” for alternative...Read More
This has resulted in the renewal of six-figure price predictions for this market cycle, with some suggesting a top of $300,000 this time around. At the time of writing, Bitcoin was trading at $37,900 after reaching an intraday high of $40,000 according to Tradingview.com. The asset had started to fall back during the Asian trading...Read More
The NASDAQ-listed business intelligence giant MicroStrategy will host an online conference to educate large organizations about the potential merits of investing in bitcoin. Called “Bitcoin for Corporations,” the initiative has also received support from other industry giants such as Gemini, Binance, Coinbase, Fidelity, Grayscale, and more. Bitcoin For Corporation Coming In February The company’s founder...Read More
There is no denying that institutions and the big players have been the catalyst for this current crypto market cycle and that notion has been reaffirmed by Morgan Stanley’s latest acquisition. According to reports, Morgan Stanley’s investment management arm boosted a stake in Bitcoin vehicle MicroStrategy Inc. to more than 10% late last year. The...Read More
Bitcoin may be a store of value for a few, a hedge against inflation, or digital gold for many. The asset’s institutionalization has made one thing clear, Bitcoin is not for weak hands and it may mean different things to different people. It may be an asset class like commodities, a legitimized medium of exchange,...Read More
When Elon Musk was breaking Crypto-Twitter with his Bitcoin memes, most retail traders were waiting for this banter to take Bitcoin’s price discovery to the next level. While this did not happen, when observed closely, it can be seen that this interesting Twitter thread is more than just friendly banter between the two billionaires, Saylor...Read More
MicroStrategy broke the silence when it invested in Bitcoin. It changed how institutions viewed Bitcoin from an investment perspective. From skeptics criticizing [critiquing] Michael Saylor and MicroStrategy’s investment decision to the very same people dipping their toes in Bitcoin investments, things have changed for the better in the last quarter. However, was MicroStrategy’s decision good?...Read More
Michael Saylor, CEO of MicroStrategy and the man who put $800 million in Bitcoin this year, is possibly one of the strongest advocates for the bullish narrative around Bitcoin, despite his skepticism about the same a few years ago. Unsurprisingly, today he is of the opinion that more institutions should make allocations to the crypto-asset,...Read More
Michael Saylor’s latest plans to raise cash for investing in Bitcoin may be controversial to the T. MicroStrategy’s treasury strategy is working as planned, and the timing of the move to buy Bitcoin and replace it as the treasury asset may have been the key driver of MicroStrategy’s growth in the first half of the...Read More
When MicroStrategy and Michael Saylor invested close to $425 million in Bitcoin back in August-September 2020, the sole purpose was to preserve its cash reserves’ purchasing power by converting it to Bitcoin. While the benefits were initially highly incremental for the company, MicroStrategy seems to be raising its game now. MSTR’s growing capital in Bitcoin...Read More
Another weekend for Bitcoin’s price action has passed quietly. The entire week, as Bitcoin’s price hit new ATH, there was the anticipation of the price crossing $20000. There was an increase in percent active supply and the increasing liquidity by whales was balanced by retail and institutional buying. In the past week, the price increased...Read More
Let’s pick up where MicroStrategy left off – their additional purchase of bitcoin, which leaves them with a total of 40,824 BTC. While this may be bullish for bitcoin and everyone in the ecosystem, we don’t realize what this implies, so, let’s take a look at what this means. Grayscale Grayscale Investments has been at...Read More
These are bullish times for Ethereum and its growing community. After all, why would anyone expect anything else? A week after the deposit contract was finally filled with a few hours to spare, the much-anticipated genesis block of the Ethereum 2.0 beacon chain was launched on 1 December. The said development came as a relief...Read More
The store of value and digital gold narrative has taken markets across spot exchanges by storm. Imagine moving ahead from the store of value narrative, as Bitcoin continues to trade above $18000 and consider the fact that $1000 of Bitcoin purchased a decade ago would be worth approximately $100,000,000 today. When @danheld tweeted about this,...Read More
Crypto derivatives exchange, FTX has added nine more tokenized stocks, available for spot and futures trading to the exchange. The newly added tokenized stock listings on FTX are Square, PayPal, MicroStrategy, Moderna, Zoom, Nio, Twitter, Uber, and NVIDIA. Users will also be able to get the actual shares transferred to them when applied for, as confirmed...Read More
What are your top 3 answers to the question, “Why would institutions even want to invest in Bitcoin?” Bitcoin has a good track record and it outperforms equitiesYeah, Bitcoin has outperformed almost every asset out there that has a history. It has done this within a span of a decade, give or take 2-3 years....Read More
MicroStrategy’s Michael Saylor has been in the news since MicroStrategy’s purchase of $500 Million worth of Bitcoin, right off of the company’s balance sheet. The spotlight on crypto Twitter has been on Michael Saylor and recently he tweeted about the debate between Bitcoin and Gold and how one would end the other, his choice of...Read More
While Altcoins are struggling to improve by a buck, Bitcoin registered its new 2020 high recently. Leading a serious sense of awakening in the space, the developments elsewhere have been instrumental as well. However, keeping price out of the picture, Bitcoin’s demand is now improving in a multi-directional facet, here’s how. Investment Demand and Fundamental...Read More
Bitcoin, despite its recent sideways movement on the charts, has a very positive outlook attached to it. Hodlers of the cryptocurrency have long been optimistic about BTC’s long-term price trend. However, with the MicroStrategy, Square Inc., and Stone Ridge’s news breaking out over the past few weeks, it would seem that institutions, en-masse, are buying into...Read More
Bitcoin’s value proposition as the go-to store of value asset has resonated fairly well. Alas, the intrinsic qualities that enable it to perform as a store of value on such a decentralized level have acted as a barrier to it taking off as a revolutionary payment system. Over the past week, Bitcoin has seen its...Read More
So, MicroStrategy bought millions of dollars worth of Bitcoin, without moving the price in any direction. Isn’t that a little surprising? At least for an asset where manipulation is said to be easy and present on a huge scale. It is weird how the news of a publicly-stated company buying $425 million worth of Bitcoin...Read More
MicroStrategy’s $500M investment in Bitcoin, now its primary asset reserve, has consistently made the headlines for over a week. Significantly, this move was viewed as an indicator of institutional interest since it has long been considered to be an important driver of Bitcoin’s price. During the historic bull run of 2017, institutional interest was key...Read More
MicroStrategy made a huge splash when it chose Bitcoin as its Primary Treasury Reserve Asset, a move, the implications of which, are yet to sink in among many in the crypto-community. In fact, MicroStrategy Founder and CEO Michael Saylor invested a massive $500M off its balance sheet in Bitcoin. The fact that Michael got acquainted...Read More
