This morning:
- MicroStrategy buys another 51,780 BTC for $4.6B
- MARA announces $700 million convert to acquire more BTC
- Semler Scientific raises $21mm ATM and acquires 215 BTC
- Metaplanet issues Β₯1.75B debt offering to buy more BTC
The corporate Bitcoin race is heating up.
Sam Callahan
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Joined June 2019
- Last week, the @WSJ published an article claiming about $90 million worth of crypto was used to fund Hamas β a serious claim that gained significant attention. In response to the article, anti-Bitcoin politicians directly linked the WSJ article as evidence in a letter to the
- The governor of the South African central bank scoffs at the idea of a strategic Bitcoin reserve asking, βWhy not a strategic beef reserve? Why not an apple reserve? Why Bitcoin?!β Brian Armstrong responds:
00:00 - I've been behind enemy lines, reading everything published by the Bank of International Settlements in 2021. Here are 10 pieces that I found the most alarming and most relevant to Bitcoin. "Know thy enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles, you will never be defeated." π
- PAUL TUDOR JONES: βAll roads lead to inflation. Iβm long gold. Iβm long Bitcoin. I own zero fixed income. The playbook to get out of this [debt problem] is that you inflate your way out.β
- I was out in Denver last night with ETHDenver in town and I have to say, this feels worse than the ICOs of 2017. An endless sea of DAOs and wallets where you move around shit to other shit yielding shit through a cross bridge to other shit yielding shit. 1 big house of cards.
- Bitcoin brought me a new career, brilliant mentors, great friends, and a renewed purpose in life, but the very best thing it brought me was you @natbrunell. You are the most brilliant, beautiful, kind, and elegant woman Iβve ever met. Officially the luckiest man in the world.
- Got my 10 year old nephew $100 worth of bitcoin. Told him he couldnβt spend it until he was 18. It was in that moment I realized I have become my grandpa dishing out savings bonds in 98β. Bitcoin = the new savings bond.
- If you have a Vanguard account and want to transfer your assets to a firm that supports #Bitcoin, it's easy to do so. It takes a few minutes to transfer your assets. If you follow the instructions, you can transfer something like a Roth IRA without paying taxes or penalties.
- Critical Metals Corp just became the first Nasdaq-listed critical minerals company to make Bitcoin its primary treasury reserve asset. They already have access to $100mm to buy bitcoin and could acquire up to $400mm more via a convertible debt raise. (s/o @hashrate)
- I dug through the 13F filings and, by my count, there were 1,573 institutions with long exposure to Bitcoin in Q4 2024. These include banks, hedge funds, RIAs, family offices, endowments, pensions, sovereign wealth funds, & other asset managers. Below are some major findings π§΅
- .@saylor just delivered a Bitcoin masterclass to some of the most powerful politicians and business leaders in the United States.
00:00 - The IMF admits that a key reason why itβs withholding funds from El Salvador is that it doesnβt like Bitcoin and the fact that the government has added it to its national treasury.
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