Bitcoin catapulted above $70,000 for the first time when the market opened at 9:30 a.m. EST on March 8. The new high was $70,170, breaking last week’s record of just over $69,000. The token jumped above the $70,000 level briefly before selling off throughout the morning. At the time of writing, the price is moving between $68,000 and $69,000. The new high marks a sharp move upward from earlier this week. After reaching highs on March 5, the token sold off heavily and went as low as $59,000…. Source link
Read More »MicroStrategy bought more than 8,800 bitcoins during 2022's plunge – Yahoo Finance
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Read More »District of Columbia Suing MicroStrategy Founder Michael Saylor for Tax Fraud
The District of Columbia is suing MicroStrategy (MSTR) founder and Executive Chairman Michael Saylor for allegedly never paying any income taxes in the district in the more than 10 years he has lived there, Attorney General Karl A. Racine announced in a tweet on Wednesday. In addition, Racine tweeted that his office is suing MicroStrategy “for conspiring to help him evade taxes he legally owes on hundreds of millions of dollars he’s earned while living” in Washington. In a follow-up Source link
Read More »Michael Saylor steps down as MicroStrategy CEO, company takes $917 million charge on bitcoin
MicroStrategy (MSTR) announced on Tuesday its founder and CEO Michael Saylor will step down from the top job and take a new post as executive chairman, focused on the company’s bitcoin strategy. Phong Le, the company’s president, will take over in the CEO role. MicroStrategy reported quarterly results that were light of Wall Street estimates on Tuesday, with revenue coming at $122.1 million against expectations for $126 million. Losses in the quarter totaled $918.1 million, with $917.8 million… Source link
Read More »A Bitcoin margin call. If the world’s leading cryptocurrency drops below $21,000, Michael Saylor’s MicroStrategy will be forced to pay up
Michael Saylor is perhaps one of the most fervent supporters of Bitcoin on the planet—and that’s saying something, given the almost cultlike community behind the world’s leading cryptocurrency. Saylor, an MIT graduate and the cofounder and CEO of the business intelligence firm MicroStrategy, has become a hero to the Bitcoin faithful ever since his company began stockpiling the cryptocurrency in August 2020. The CEO has gone so far as to call Bitcoin “freedom,” and “the most… Source link
Read More »Bitcoin is a 100 year investment: Microstrategy CEO
Feeling down that bitcoin prices are well off their all-time highs? Don’t be, says bitcoin bull and MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor. “My time horizon is a decade or more,” Saylor said on Yahoo Finance Live. And Saylor is putting his money where his mouth is on bitcoin. MicroStrategy disclosed this week it purchased 660 bitcoin for about $25 million between Dec. 30, 2021 and Jan. 31, 2022. The average price per coin tallied $37,865. The company now holds 125,051 bitcoins valued at about $4.8… Source link
Read More »Meta made a crucial mistake with bitcoin: MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor
Bitcoin bull Michael Saylor says Meta should have stayed around longer in the crypto space. “The mistake [they made] was not getting into the crypto space. They wasted many, many years of their time with the project they invested in,” the MicroStrategy CEO and founder said on Yahoo Finance Live. This week, Diem — Facebook’s one-time crypto venture — said it sold its assets and intellectual property to crypto bank Silvergate Capital. Sale price: $182 million. The sale effectively ends… Source link
Read More »MicroStrategy Plummets as SEC Rejects Its Bitcoin Accounting
(Bloomberg Law) — MicroStrategy Inc. can’t strip out Bitcoin’s wild swings from the unofficial accounting measures it touts to investors, the SEC said. Most Read from Bloomberg Bad news for the MicroStrategy was compounded as the company’s shares fell as much as 20% Friday, the biggest intraday collapse since Feb. 23. Its stock closed at $375.89, down nearly 18%. Bitcoin also tumbled, and was down more than 7% around 4:15 p.m. in New York. The enterprise software maker, which said in… Source link
Read More »Bitcoin faces only one ‘legitimate risk,’ Microstrategy CEO Michael Saylor says
Bitcoin (BTC-USD) is down more than 20% from its record high and is set for its fourth straight weekly decline. Crypto bulls, as always, are keeping the faith. That includes MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor, who added bitcoin to his company’s balance sheet last year. Since then, he’s been an outspoken advocate. Right now, he doesn’t see many — any? — long-term obstacles to prices going higher. “The only legitimate risk is a black swan – an unknown unknown,” he said in an… Source link
Read More »MicroStrategy to Sell Up to $1B in Stock, Use Part of Proceeds to Buy Yet More Bitcoin
Next Michael Saylor will be holding a bake sale to fund his bitcoin purchases. On the same day MicroStrategy, the business intelligence software firm that Saylor runs, announced it had completed the sale of $500 million in bonds to increase its stash of the leading cryptocurrency, the firm said it plans to sell up to $1 billion in stock to buy even more. MicroStrategy’s bitcoin trove is so big that owning the cryptocurrency is now described in the company’s filings with the U.S. Securities… Source link
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