MicroStrategy has recognized Bitcoin as a legitimate investment asset that can be superior to cash and accordingly has made Bitcoin the principal holding in its treasury reserve strategy.
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The company paid an average price of $49,229 per bitcoin, it said in a statement. As of Dec. 29, MicroStrategy held about 124,391 bitcoins purchased at an average price of $30,159. Bitcoin is currently trading about $47,500, valuing the trove at $5.9 billion .
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MicroStrategy, which made bitcoin acquisition a second mandate earlier this year, had since become a sort of bitcoin-proxy investment for investors looking for exposure to crypto.
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The company held $2.41 billion of the cryptocurrency as of Sept. 30, up from $1.05 billion at the end of 2020. MicroStrategy also said it purchased bitcoins for $2.04 billion in cash for the first nine months of 2021 , up from $425 million in the prior-year period.
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To date, there are no ETFs that are able to directly own Bitcoin . That’s because cryptocurrency and other digital currency trading is still unregulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
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