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 boxer of all time, took it to Twitter to see if his 5.6 million followers prefer BTC or ETH on Saturday. The thousands of answers vary...
Read More »Michael Saylor Says He’s Not Forced to Sell MicroStrategy’s Bitcoin No Matter What
In a recent interview for Natalie Brunell’s Coin Stories, MicroStrategy’s CEO also indicated that BTC is among the few assets fitting the criteria of potential upside movements by a factor of 100. Saylor: No BTC Price Can Make Me Sell Bitcoin It has been almost a year now since the man who founded and runs MicroStrategy announced the company’s first massive BTC purchase worth more than $200 million. In the following eleven months, the NASDAQ-listed business intelligence giant...
Read More »$2.2 Trillion Asset Manager Buys 12% Stake in Michael Saylor’s MicroStrategy
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 based in Los Angeles, California, filed with the SEC in late June but Walter Burkley, the Senior Vice President at...
Read More »Michael Saylor Condemns China’s BTC Ban
Michael Saylor of MicroStrategy fame is convinced that China is making a huge mistake by not allowing bitcoin operations to continue within its borders. Michael Saylor Is Critical of China’s Decisions Over the past few days, bitcoin has experienced something of a surge. It was trading for about $29,500 just over a week ago, and yet today, the currency has risen to roughly $36,000. While this is by no means a heavy boom, the currency is doing considerably better, and the...
Read More »China Made a Trillion-Dollar Mistake by Ousting Bitcoin Miners, Says Michael Saylor
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 nation intensified its crackdown on the cryptocurrency space this year. More specifically, the Asian...
Read More »MicroStrategy Owns More Than 100,000 Bitcoins After Another Purchase Worth $500 Million
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 firm raised $500 million through an offering of senior secure notes, as reported earlier. MicroStrategy has purchased an additional...
Read More »You Already Have More Than Enough Bitcoin: Peter Schiff Tells Michael Saylor
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 you have followed the cryptocurrency markets even vaguely in the past year, two names should be popping out as the...
Read More »MicroStrategy to Buy Another $500 Million Worth of Bitcoin, Announces a BTC Holding Company
MicroStrategy, the company, spearheaded by one of Bitcoin’s most vocal proponents, Michael Saylor, has completed yet another senior secured notes offering to buy more BTC. In an announcement revealed today, MicroStrategy said it’d completed a $500 million offering of senior secured notes due 2028 to buy more bitcoins. As it stands, the company now owns approximately 92,079 bitcoins. The notes have been sold in a private offering to qualified institutional buyers in full...
Read More »MicroStrategy Plans Another BTC Purchase Nearing $500 Million
As if MicroStrategy did not already own a ton of bitcoin, the software firm with stock shares trading for nearly $500 at the time of writing has announced it is looking to sell approximately $400 million worth of company debt so it can purchase more BTC units. MicroStrategy Is Looking to Buy More BTC At press time, the company owns more than $2 billion in bitcoin, making it the biggest institutional bitcoin investor in the world. In second place is Tesla, which purchased...
Read More »MicroStrategy Plans to Raise Another $400M to Buy More Bitcoin
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 millions of dollars in August 2020, the NASDAQ-listed software giant has only doubled down on its BTC involvement. The latest endeavor came...
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