{"id":13471,"date":"2025-02-17T12:17:48","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T12:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=13471"},"modified":"2025-02-17T12:17:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T12:17:48","slug":"microsofts-opposition-to-bitcoin-investments-aligns-with-the-stance-of-the-companys-largest-shareholder-vanguard-heres-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=13471","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft&#8217;s Opposition To Bitcoin Investments Aligns With The Stance Of The Company&#8217;s Largest Shareholder, Vanguard: Here&#8217;s More"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Microsoft Corp<\/strong>. (NASDAQ:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/MSFT#NASDAQ\">MSFT<\/a>) said no to <strong>Bitcoin <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) investments last year, ending weeks of speculation that the tech behemoth would join other corporations in adding the world\u2019s largest cryptocurrency to its reserves.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the company&#8217;s refusal was consistent with that of its largest shareholder, <strong>Vanguard Group<\/strong>, which has avoided backing any cryptocurrency-related investment products due to the speculative nature of the asset class.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What happened: <\/strong>Microsoft <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/25\/01\/42807883\/microsoft-gave-bitcoin-a-miss-but-do-you-know-one-of-tech-giants-largest-shareholders-is-massively-bullish-on-the-apex-crypto\">voted down a proposal<\/a> to include Bitcoin on its balance sheet after the board raised concerns about the asset\u2019s volatility.<\/p>\n<p>The refusal came despite a case by <strong>Strategy<\/strong> Executive Chairman <strong>Michael Saylor<\/strong> for <a ...><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/02\/43764718\/microsofts-opposition-to-bitcoin-investments-aligns-with-the-stance-of-the-companys-larges\" alt=\"Microsoft's\" opposition to bitcoin investments aligns with the stance of company largest shareholder vanguard: here more>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) said no to Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) investments last year, ending weeks of speculation that the tech behemoth would join other corporations in adding the world\u2019s largest cryptocurrency to its reserves. Interestingly, the company&#8217;s refusal was consistent with that of its largest shareholder, Vanguard Group, which has avoided backing any cryptocurrency-related investment products [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-13471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}