{"id":6220,"date":"2025-01-06T08:17:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T08:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=6220"},"modified":"2025-01-06T08:17:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T08:17:15","slug":"microsoft-may-have-given-bitcoin-a-miss-but-did-you-know-one-of-its-largest-shareholders-is-betting-big-on-the-top-crypto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=6220","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft May Have Given Bitcoin a Miss, but Did You Know One of Its Largest Shareholders Is Betting Big on the Top Crypto?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Microsoft Corp<\/strong>. (NASDAQ:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/MSFT#NASDAQ\">MSFT<\/a>) might have rejected the proposal to assess <strong>Bitcoin <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) investment, but its second-largest shareholder, <strong>BlackRock, <\/strong>is second to none in terms of optimism for the apex cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What happened<\/strong>: Microsoft, worth more than $3 trillion, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/24\/12\/42421374\/microsoft-shareholders-reject-proposal-to-explore-bitcoin-investment\">voted down a proposal<\/a> to consider adding Bitcoin to its balance sheet after the board expressed worries about the asset\u2019s volatility.<\/p>\n<p>The rejection came despite a case by <strong>MicroStrategy<\/strong> Executive Chairman <strong>Michael Saylor<\/strong> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/24\/12\/42299317\/michael-saylor-says-microsoft-could-add-4-trillion-in-valuation-by-investing-in-bitcoin\">how the plan could increase Microsoft\u2019s market capitalization<\/a> in the near term.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, Microsoft&#8217;s decision to give Bitcoin a miss contrasted sharply with how one of its biggest institutional investors viewed the cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p><strong>See Also<\/strong>:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/24\/12\/42735744\/pharma-bro-martin-shkreli-predicts-doom-for-michael-saylors-microstrategy-as-stock-dips-below-300-in-after-hours-trading\"> <strong>\u2018Pharma Bro\u2019 Martin Shkreli Predicts Liquidation Doom For MicroStrategy Amid Fall Below $300, Says &#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><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\" alt=\"Microsoft\" may have given bitcoin a miss but did you know one of its largest shareholders is betting big on the top crypto>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) might have rejected the proposal to assess Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) investment, but its second-largest shareholder, BlackRock, is second to none in terms of optimism for the apex cryptocurrency. What happened: Microsoft, worth more than $3 trillion, voted down a proposal to consider adding Bitcoin to its balance sheet after the board expressed [&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-6220","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\/6220","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=6220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}