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Bitcoin hits 20-month low as market sentiment sours(ft.com)
36 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 11 hours ago | 9 comments
Newlaptop 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I've been surprised that the news that Strategy (formerly Microstrategy) bought 3x the total amount of mined bitcoin in the past year didn't cause bigger waves.

A single corporation is issuing debt at 11% interest to buy all the bitcoin being produced and a huge chunk of the additional sales. That's such an obviously precarious situation that I figured the news would cause a crash as people tried to get out of bitcoin before Strategy has to start liquidating, but it looks like there's still some runway left.

chistev 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Are they still buying?

swarnie 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Still buying, currently 12.5 billys underwater.

If they sold today it would be comparable to the largest banking losses from the 2008 kerfuffle

DANmode 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The broader market still sees it as a speculative investment.

&

This is a recession period.

iamleppert 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Outflows into AI. I wouldn’t be shocked if it goes down to $20k soon.

icf80 7 hours ago | parent [-]

at least with AI you produce some results

rndjdifi358 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Has anyone calculated what effect swapping AI datacenter calculation to bitcoin mining would have? They’re not asics, but this is a lot of hardware that’s been bought

rdwrrr 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Just a little bit lower before it can go up again.

phendrenad2 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I wonder how much of this is investment flowing out of everything and into factories and mining other industries that the current regime is de-regulating.