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MicroStrategy tager et værdiforringelsestab på $917 millioner Bitcoin Stash som kryptopriser falder
MicroStrategy, the largest bitcoin holding-publicly-traded company in the world, took a non-cash digital asset impairment charge in the third quarter, up from $424 million in the second quarter, the latest filings have shown.
I en tirsdagsmeddelelse afslørede virksomheden også, at Michael Saylor, der har fungeret som administrerende direktør og bestyrelsesformand siden grundlæggelsen af MicroStrategy i 1989 og offentliggjorde den i 1998, trak sig for at påtage sig en ny rolle som administrerende formand. Phong Le, der blandt andre ledende stillinger har fungeret som præsident siden 2020, ville erstatte Saylor som præsident og administrerende direktør.
"I believe that splitting the roles of Chairman and CEO will enable us to better pursue our two corporate strategies of acquiring and holding bitcoin and growing our enterprise analytics software business.” Sagde Saylor. “As Executive Chairman I will be able to focus more on our bitcoin opkøbsstrategi og relaterede bitcoin advocacy initiatives, while Phong will be empowered as CEO to manage overall corporate operations.”
The latest filing and subsequent shake-up in the company’s top leadership come on the heels of the company falling in the red on its Bitcoin stash following a brutal crypto winter. Nevertheless, Michael Saylor has maintained that the company is ready to face the challenging market conditions and defend its Bitcoin position.
MicroStrategy’s CFO Andrew Kang echoed those sentiments in an earnings conference call, stating that the company has about 85,000 unpledged Bitcoin available should its obligations to Silvergate bank fall due. “vi har mere end tilstrækkelig sikkerhed for enhver prisvolatilitet" sagde Kang.
Siden virksomheden begyndte at købe kryptovalutaen i 2020, er det fortsat køb mere Bitcoin, with the total stash value swelling to about $8 billion when BTC tapped $68,000 in November 2021. As of writing, it holds some 129,699 bitcoins with an average cost of $30,664 per bitcoin. However, the market value of those holdings has dropped to roughly $3.03 billion today, with BTC plunging hard in the past ten months.
Last month, Tesla, another prominent company with sizeable Bitcoin beholdninger, dumpede omkring 75% af sine beholdninger for at holde selskabets drift flydende. Michael Saylor har dog fastholdt, at de ikke har til hensigt at sælge deres mønter og vil fortsætte med at købe flere, når pengestrømmene tillader det.
Fra skrivning Bitcoin is at $23,056 after a 1.90% increase in the past 24 hours based on data from CoinMarketCap.
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