{"id":7602,"date":"2025-01-14T14:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T14:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=7602"},"modified":"2025-01-14T14:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T14:32:09","slug":"a-better-way-to-play-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=7602","title":{"rendered":"A Better Way To Play Bitcoin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"586\" src=\"https:\/\/contributor-assets.benzinga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/13201135\/Top-Image-1024x586.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/contributor-assets.benzinga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/13201135\/Top-Image-1024x586.jpg 1024w,https:\/\/contributor-assets.benzinga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/13201135\/Top-Image-300x172.jpg 300w,https:\/\/contributor-assets.benzinga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/13201135\/Top-Image-768x440.jpg 768w,https:\/\/contributor-assets.benzinga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/13201135\/Top-Image.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">MicroStrategy As A Levered Play On Bitcoin<\/h2>\n<p>In recent years,\u00a0<strong>MicroStrategy, Inc.<\/strong>\u00a0(NASDAQ:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/MSTR#NASDAQ\">MSTR<\/a>) has emerged as a essentially a levered play on <strong>Bitcoin<\/strong>. Over the last year, for example, MicroStrategy was up 468%, while Bitcoin was up 105%.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"820\" height=\"368\" src=\"https:\/\/contributor-assets.benzinga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/13201322\/MSTR-BTC-Chart.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/contributor-assets.benzinga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/13201322\/MSTR-BTC-Chart.jpg 820w,https:\/\/contributor-assets.benzinga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/13201322\/MSTR-BTC-Chart-300x135.jpg 300w,https:\/\/contributor-assets.benzinga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/13201322\/MSTR-BTC-Chart-768x345.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px\"><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">MicroStrategy\u2019s Bitcoin Balance Sheet Strategy.\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>What drove MicroStrategy\u2019s outperformance is its Bitcoin Balance Sheet Strategy. MicroStrategy\u00a0CEO Michael Saylor is arguably the world\u2019s leading cheerleader for Bitcoin. After having turned his company into a machine for acquiring Bitcoin, he presented his strategy to\u00a0<strong>Microsoft<\/strong> <strong>Corporation\u2019s<\/strong> board recently.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Microsoft Bitcoin Strategy - A Presentation by Michael Saylor\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cH2t6VOdgkE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The general gist of MicroStrategy\u2019s Bitcoin strategy is this:\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make Bitcoin the company\u2019s primary treasury asset over cash.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Leverage secondary share offerings and debt offerings to buy more Bitcoin.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Use its underlying business to generate revenue to service the debt incurred to buy more Bitcoin.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Attract Bitcoin enthusiasts as shareholders which supports the share price and facilitates secondary offerings used to buy more Bitcoin.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Maybe Another Company Can Do This Better<\/h2>\n<p>Last year, another company decided to adopt MicroStrategy\u2019s Bitcoin Balance Sheet Strategy:\u00a0<strong>Semler Scientific, Inc.<\/strong>\u00a0(NASDAQ:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/SMLR#NASDAQ\">SMLR<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich ...&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/01\/42974303\/a-better-way-to-play-bitcoin alt=A Better Way To Play Bitcoin?&gt;Full story available on Benzinga.com&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;\/body&gt;&lt;\/html&gt;\"><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MicroStrategy As A Levered Play On Bitcoin In recent years,\u00a0MicroStrategy, Inc.\u00a0(NASDAQ:MSTR) has emerged as a essentially a levered play on Bitcoin. Over the last year, for example, MicroStrategy was up 468%, while Bitcoin was up 105%.\u00a0 MicroStrategy\u2019s Bitcoin Balance Sheet Strategy.\u00a0 What drove MicroStrategy\u2019s outperformance is its Bitcoin Balance Sheet Strategy. MicroStrategy\u00a0CEO Michael Saylor is [&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-7602","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\/7602","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=7602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}