DeFi trader Vivek Raman, in a Twitter thread, has argued that Ethereum’s (ETH) anticipated Merge would not bring down the network fees as expected by many. The Ethereum Merge is one of the most powerful catalysts in crypto history, and it is quickly approaching As we reach the endgame for ETH under the proof of…
MicroStrategy’s Michael Saylor says Ethereum is security
In an interview with Altcoin Daily, MicroStrategy’s CEO Michael Saylor said Ethereum (ETH) is security. According to Saylor, the fact that Ethereum was first issued via an initial coin offering proves it is not a commodity. “There’s a management team. There was a pre-mine. There’s a hard fork. There are continual hard forks.” He also talked…
Public companies holding Bitcoin face impairment losses amid market crash
MicroStrategy, Tesla, and other public companies holding Bitcoin face significant impairment losses as Bitcoin (BTC) closed the second quarter below $19,000. MicroStrategy BTC holding down 58% According to Bloomberg News, MicroStrategy could report a significant impairment loss of $3.4 billion due to the sharp decline in BTC prices between April and June 2022. The company…
Michael Saylor joyous at FASB decision to review crypto accounting rules
The Chief Executive Officer of MicroStrategy and Bitcoin maximalist Michael Saylor has expressed excitement about the U.S. Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) decision to review rules for crypto. Congratulations to the #Bitcoin community. This morning, by unanimous vote of 7-0, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) agreed to add a project to review Accounting for…
Analyst says crypto stocks performance is proof we are in bear market
Crypto analyst Caleb Franzen says that we’re currently in a bear market. The evidence of that is the performance of crypto-related equities, most of which have lost half of their value on the year-to-date metric. Crypto stocks decline Topping the list is MicroStrategy. The business intelligence and software company has the biggest Bitcoin holdings among…
Bitcoin briefly jumps above $47K after MicroStrategy buys 4,167 BTC
MicroStrategy’s spree of adding bitcoin to its balance sheet continues without rest. Announced in a tweet by the company CEO Michael Saylor, the IT-services company bought another 4,167 bitcoin (BTC). As reported by CryptoSlate on March 30, the purchase was expected after MicroStrategy announced the company had borrowed $205 million to buy more bitcoin. Aside…
MicroStrategy buys the dip, adding 660 more BTC to its reserve
In its first major purchase of the year, MicroStrategy added 660 additional BTC to its reserves, which currently holds over 125,000 BTC. MicroStrategy’s doubles down on Bitcoin following conference announcement According to the latest Form 8-K document filed with the SEC, MicroStrategy purchased 660 BTC between December 30th, 2021, and January 31st, 2022. The company…
MicroStrategy has purchased an additional 1,914 bitcoins
IT-services company MicroStrategy continues its strategy to add bitcoin (BTC) to its balance sheet. With just hours left of the year, the company CEO Michael Saylor announced on Twitter yet another purchase of the leading cryptocurrency by market cap. This time, MicroStrategy purchased 1,914 BTC during the period between December 9th and December 29th for…
Fraudsters posing as Michael Saylor strip people of over $4 million in Bitcoin
A few days ago, Elliptic, a blockchain analytic firm, reported that unsuspecting individuals had cumulatively lost over $10 billion to crypto frauds and scams. Today, a Bitcoin user has now added to that figure after losing 3 BTC (the equivalent of $179,000) to an impersonator of MicroStrategy’s chief executive officer Michael Saylor, in what appears…
MicroStrategy bought close to 9000 BTC in Q3, stash now worth $7 billion
MicroStrategy has revealed that it bought additional 9,000 units of Bitcoin during the third quarter of the year, bringing the worth of its holdings to around $7 billion. Microstrategy now holds 114,042 Bitcoin According to the company’s Q3 report released on October 28, the intelligence firm holds a total of 114,042 Bitcoin at an average…