Happy Friday
The Lede
The madman. The absolute madman. Just when you thought he was done, MicroStrategy’s Michael Saylor announced this week that the company was offering up to $400m in convertible debt in order (of course) to go buy more bitcoin.
Then it went up to $550m based on demand.
Then it went up to $650m and closed.
Yes, MicroStrategy has raised $650m with the express intent to go buy more bitcoin. This will bring their total spend on bitcoin over a billion dollars.
This isn’t the ETF we want, but maybe it’s the ETF we deserve.
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Community Commentary
The big question
This is a fun test!
A Really Big Number We Should Be Paying Attention To
2,052
That’s the number of wallets with more than 1000 BTC, a 17% increase from last year
Final Thought
We do sound like that.