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…
Feds increased rate won’t positively affect Bitcoin price, here is why
While many analysts predict that the hiked interest rate by the Feds would lead to a positive movement in the price performance of Bitcoin, a leading billionaire investor, however, disagrees with this notion. Bitcoin would continue to trade between $30k to $50k Michael Novogratz, the CEO of Galaxy Digital Holdings Ltd., in a recent interview,…
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…
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…
Tesla makes $1 billion profit from its Bitcoin (BTC) holdings
‘Dogenations’ campaign wants to raise Shiba Inu-inspired Dogecoin for homeless animals PAWS Chicago, a non-profit animal shelter organization dedicated to building no-kill animal communities, recently launched “Dogenations” and started accepting Dogecoin (DOGE), Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and 36 other cryptocurrencies for donations. 2 min read →