• explodicle@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    40
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    6 days ago

    Why would they in the first place? It would be like a newspaper buying gold. If investors want to buy bitcoin they can just do that.

        • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          5 days ago

          Since you’ve missed the news, the USA has been overtaken by a fascist christian white supremacist party who gut social programs, cut science funding, literally completely disbanded the department of education, increased the defficit, and enacted large Tariffs on every other nation.

          • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            3
            arrow-down
            2
            ·
            5 days ago

            the USA has been overtaken by a fascist christian white supremacist party

            For the third time (assuming you don’t count Congressional cycles) in twenty years. I’ve spent a solid 13 of the last 25 years living under a Christian Fascist presidency. Why am I supposed to assume that will devalue the dollar this time around?

            • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              2
              arrow-down
              4
              ·
              5 days ago

              You’re either pretending this administration isn’t worse than any previous example or you are woefully naïve.

    • RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      5 days ago

      Businesses are following the lead of Microstrategy with keeping BTC on the treasury books to increase profits and hedge against inflation.

      • explodicle@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        5 days ago

        But now they’re essentially just a bitcoin proxy, they even changed the logo to have a bitcoin on it.

        Now that there’s lots of ETFs and stuff, why buy Microstrategy and not just bitcoin?

        • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          5 days ago

          If you own a share of meta then you own a share of meta and meta owns a mix of assets ranging from physical to various liquidity, whether its USD or BTC there isn’t any difference in this regard.

  • toastmeister@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    10
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    5 days ago

    I due not want my corporation holding Bitcoin, if I want exposure I’ll buy Bitcoin directly. They should be holding a bit of debt optimally.

    • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      arrow-down
      7
      ·
      edit-2
      5 days ago

      TBH if the choices are USD or BTC then I think the latter has a better future at the moment.

      • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        5 days ago

        BTC is still less stable. It will need to stop being a pump and dump cycle target before it could claim a true future.

        • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          arrow-down
          7
          ·
          5 days ago

          With a Market Cap of 2 Trillion it’s pretty difficult to impact the purchase price as an individual or group. Even a small nation would struggle with it.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        5 days ago

        I think the latter has a better future at the moment.

        Crypto ‘godfather’ of Bel-Air: Probe widens into L.A. deputies’ alleged links to mogul

        • Federal authorities accuse Adam Iza, a cryptocurrency entrepreneur, of financial conspiracies and extortion.
        • Prosecutors allege Iza used L.A. County sheriff’s deputies to carry out his criminal bidding.
        • Iza has pleaded not guilty. A judge ordered him jailed despite claims that he needs medical care after a cosmetic leg-lengthening procedure.

        If you want a deeper dive, check out the TrueAnon episode series Zort a three-parts-and-counting plunge into the seedy underbelly of Cryptocoin scams, extortion, leg-lengthening surgery, LASD rampant corruption, and age-gap discourse.

        • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          arrow-down
          4
          ·
          5 days ago

          Oh no! Lmao. You’ve really only demonstrated that you don’t understand what Bitcoin is, that you think Iza owns and operates it.

    • Revan343@lemmy.ca
      cake
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      18
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      6 days ago

      If only there were some other major currency, maybe controlled by some larger union of countries so that one country’s poor decisions can’t tank it

      • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        5 days ago

        I didn’t really parse what your comment is saying. Are you saying that whenever you buy BTC you later sell it for half your buy average? Or are you saying like 150%?

        Is it just you or are you implying that everyone loses/gains 50% from the magical BitGoblin?

    • untakenusername@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      5 days ago

      yeah people don’t understand DOGE might be the best investment known to mankind

      spoiler

      because some people on this thread cant take a joke, \s