| ▲ | 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. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | iamleppert 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Outflows into AI. I wouldn’t be shocked if it goes down to $20k soon. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | 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. | |||||||||||||||||||||||