MicroStrategy Chief Financial Officer Andrew Kang told the Wall Street Journal connected Wednesday that the company’s strategy to bargain and clasp bitcoin (BTC) for the agelong word won’t alteration contempt the crypto and broader banal marketplace rout.
Kang said the institution has nary volition to merchantability close now, and hasn’t faced unit from shareholders, according to the report.
Comments from Kang travel aft MicroStrategy’s CEO Michael Saylor has consistently reiterated that the institution won’t beryllium selling its bitcoin holdings.
MicroStrategy has faced questions precocious astir its term indebtedness from Silvergate, and whether the institution would look a borderline telephone if bitcoin fell to a definite level.
As of March 31, the archetypal outgo ground and marketplace worth of MicroStrategy’s bitcoin were $3.967 cardinal and $5.893 billion, respectively, reflecting an mean outgo per bitcoin of astir $30,700 and a marketplace terms per bitcoin of $45,602.79, respectively. MicroStrategy holds conscionable implicit 129,000 bitcoins, according to its latest earnings release.
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