MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor Bullish on Bitcoin Despite Paper Loss

MicroStrategy said it currently holds over 1.05 lakh Bitcoins.

MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor Bullish on Bitcoin Despite Paper Loss

MicroStrategy said its subsidiary MacroStrategy holds approximately 92,079 Bitcoins

Highlights
  • MicroStrategy is the largest corporate investor of Bitcoin
  • Its subsidiary MacroStrategy also holds over 92,000 Bitcoins
  • Saylor said his firm's strategy is to invest in Bitcoin for the long term
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Bitcoin's largest corporate investor MicroStrategy has decided to continue to pour money into its “digital asset strategy” despite taking a loss. The US-based business intelligence software developer said the current value of its Bitcoin holdings was $2.051 billion (roughly Rs. 15,255 crores), that was a cumulative impairment loss of $689.60 million (roughly Rs. 5,130 crores). However, this is considered only as a paper loss (not yet been realised), that is fully based on the cryptocurrency's price at the end of the second quarter. CEO Michael Saylor, who has often been bullish about the future of the world's oldest cryptocurrency, said he is “pleased by the results” of the digital asset strategy.

Saylor said in a statement that the company's latest funding had allowed it to increase its digital holdings to more than 1.05 lakh Bitcoins. “Going forward, we intend to continue to deploy additional capital into our digital asset strategy,” he added.

The company said its subsidiary MacroStrategy holds approximately 92,079 Bitcoins.

Reiterating his stance on Bitcoin's future on Friday, Saylor said his company's strategy is to invest in Bitcoin for the long term as the future of the Big Tech is “digital property.”

In another tweet earlier, he said Bitcoin was the fastest growing and most widely held financial asset in the history of the world as it is now held by more than 114 million people.

Last month, when another billionaire entrepreneur, Elon Musk, had mocked Bitcoin maximalists with a lightbulb joke, Saylor had responded to him.

Saylor made the first investment into Bitcoin in August last year with a purchase of 21,454 Bitcoins for $250 million (roughly Rs 1,860 crores). In February this year, his company added another 19,452 Bitcoins for nearly $1 billion (roughly Rs. 7,440 crores). By March 1, MicroStrategy's Bitcoin holdings had reached 90,859 BTC acquired for $2.19 billion (roughly Rs. 16,290 crores).

In less than a year, Saylor has turned a relatively obscure intelligence software firm into a de facto Bitcoin ETF.


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