MicroStrategy Takes A $917 Million Impairment Loss On Its Bitcoin Stash As Crypto Prices Tumble

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MicroStrategy Takes A $917 Million Impairment Loss On Its Bitcoin Stash As Crypto Prices Tumble

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.

Otrdienas paziņojumā uzņēmums arī atklāja, ka Maikls Sailors, kurš ir bijis izpilddirektors un valdes priekšsēdētājs kopš MicroStrategy dibināšanas 1989. gadā un publiskošanas 1998. gadā, atkāpjas, lai uzņemtos jaunu izpildpriekšsēdētāja amatu. Phong Le, kurš ir ieņēmis prezidenta amatu kopš 2020. gada, kā arī citus vadošos amatus, aizstātu Seiloru prezidenta un izpilddirektora amatā.

"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.” Teica Saylor. “As Executive Chairman I will be able to focus more on our bitcoin iegādes stratēģija un ar to saistītās 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 pozīciju.

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. “mums ir vairāk nekā pietiekams nodrošinājums jebkurai cenu nepastāvībai,” sacīja Kangs.

Kopš uzņēmums 2020. gadā sāka iepirkt kriptovalūtu, tas ir turpinājis Pērc vēl 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 saimniecības, dempinga apmēram 75% no tās līdzdalības, lai saglabātu uzņēmuma darbību. Maikls Sailors tomēr ir apgalvojis, ka viņiem nav nodoma pārdot savas monētas un turpinās pirkt vairāk, ja to ļaus naudas plūsma. 

Rakstot, Bitcoin is at $23,056 after a 1.90% increase in the past 24 hours based on data from CoinMarketCap.

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