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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.
V utorkovom oznámení spoločnosť tiež odhalila, že Michael Saylor, ktorý pôsobil ako generálny riaditeľ a predseda predstavenstva od založenia MicroStrategy v roku 1989 a zverejnenia v roku 1998, odstúpil, aby prevzal novú úlohu výkonného predsedu. Phong Le, ktorý je prezidentom od roku 2020, okrem iných výkonných pozícií, nahradí Saylora na poste prezidenta a generálneho riaditeľa.
"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.” Povedal Saylor. “As Executive Chairman I will be able to focus more on our bitcoin acquisition strategy and related 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 pozíciu.
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. “máme viac než dostatočný kolaterál pre akúkoľvek cenovú volatilitu“ povedal Kang.
Odkedy spoločnosť začala nakupovať kryptomenu v roku 2020, pokračuje Kúp viac 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 držanie, dumpingové asi 75% jej podielov na udržanie prevádzky spoločnosti nad vodou. Michael Saylor však tvrdí, že nemajú v úmysle predávať svoje mince a budú pokračovať v nákupe ďalších, ak to peňažné toky dovolia.
V čase písania článku Bitcoin is at $23,056 after a 1.90% increase in the past 24 hours based on data from CoinMarketCap.
Originálny zdroj: ZyCrypto