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To: carranza2 who wrote (168674)	2/17/2021 7:41:24 AM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 218847

Re <<BTC>> bloomberg.com MicroStrategy (MSTR) Raises Bitcoin Bet With More Convertible Bonds - Bloomberg MicroStrategy Inc. is adding to its wildly successful bet on Bitcoin, but anyone scooping up the software maker’s stock as a proxy for crypto would be paying a hefty premium. The company plans to sell $600 million in convertible bonds and use the money to boost its Bitcoin stash, it said in a filing Tuesday. That follows $1.15 billion of crypto purchases that began last summer, and prompted MicroStrategy to announce a second pillar of its corporate strategy -- “to acquire and hold Bitcoin.” So far, the company’s bet on the token has paid off. Bitcoin has rallied 316% since the end of August, tripling its investment to more than $3 billion. Its share price has also soared, adding over $8 billion to its market value. The success has led to a math problem for any investor hoping to get a piece of Bitcoin through MicroStrategy. Given that a large part of the company’s enterprise value owes to its crypto holdings, rough calculations show that investors are paying a 53% premium over the market price of Bitcoin. Here’s how it breaks down: At the current price of about $49,000, MicroStrategy can buy about 12,250 coins for its $600 million. Add that to the nearly 71,000 coins it said it owned as of Feb. 8 and it has more than 83,250. With about 7.6 million shares outstanding, each share would be entitled to 0.011 Bitcoin. MicroStrategy trades for $955 a share, up from $135 on Aug. 11, when it announced its first foray into crypto. Crudely attributing the $820 difference to its new Bitcoin business would mean an investor who bought today would pay about $75,019 per Bitcoin. That’s not to say the bet can’t pay off. MicroStrategy’s stock has beaten even the frothy cryptocurrency by more than 100 percentage points since August. The shares fell 7.7% Tuesday. Read Mopre: Cash-Rich Software Company Mints No-Lose Bitcoin Play (1) This is the second time in three months that the Tysons Corner, a Virginia-based company issued debt to fund the purchase of Bitcoin. In early December, MicroStrategy sold $650 million of convertible bonds, opening a backdoor for bond investors to invest in Bitcoin. Those securities were pushed deep in the money after the company’s shares and the underlying value of the converts jumped, chasing the cryptocurrency’s rally. None of the previously issued convertible bonds have been converted as of Tuesday afternoon, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Read More: Corporate CFOs Not Planning to Buy Bitcoin, Gartner Survey Shows — With assistance by Olivia Raimonde (Updates common share and cryptocurrency prices.) Before it's here, it's on the Bloomberg Terminal. LEARN MORE Sent from my iPad

To: carranza2 who wrote (168674)	2/17/2021 8:29:53 AM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 218847

Here be a note that tries to denigrate gold and bitgold all at one go, from Barron’s Bitcoin Hits $51,000. The Run Doesn’t Make Sense. Bitcoin cruised past $50,000 and is at a new 52-week high on Wednesday. It doesn’t make any sense. The prevailing narrative sending prices higher is that there is a fixed supply of Bitcoin. As more people grow interested in buying the cryptocurrency, the higher demand goes and, in turn, the higher the price. While there is a fixed supply of Bitcoin, that may have little to do with its price over the long run. Bitcoin aspires to be—essentially—money, like gold of long ago. But gold, which also has a fixed supply, didn’t go parabolic when the global economy expanded. Gold has gone from roughly $20 to $1,800 over the past 160 years. That’s less than 3% average annual gain. There are other factors besides supply that determine the price of any money. Importantly, the price of everything else matters a lot. That’s how gold lost its status in the monetary world. Price deflation—a terrible thing for anyone with debt—was one of the reasons the world discarded the gold standard. The biggest risk to Bitcoin isn’t regulatory action or competing cryptocurrencies. It’s a change in the narrative. The more Bitcoin becomes like currency—the more it circulates, is accepted at stores, and lent—the sooner the scarcity or supply narrative breaks down and the sooner the realities of being actual money set in. —Al Root *** The standard playbook for managing your personal finances went out the window in 2020. With the economy turned upside down and volatile markets, how do you plan for your financial future, and navigate short term and long term goals? Join MarketWatch and Barron’s editors today at 1 p.m. ET to learn how. Sign up here.