Bitcoin hits 20-month low as market sentiment sours

36 pointsposted 11 hours ago
by 1vuio0pswjnm7

9 Comments

Newlaptop

10 hours ago

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

Are they still buying?

swarnie

5 hours ago

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

8 hours ago

The broader market still sees it as a speculative investment.

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This is a recession period.

iamleppert

10 hours ago

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

icf80

7 hours ago

at least with AI you produce some results

rndjdifi358

7 hours ago

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

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

phendrenad2

10 hours ago

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.