MicroStrategy Finance results unveils how whales suffer big loss.

[tranthidung]

The company with the highest amount of bitcoin as of march 31st holds about 129,218 BTC worth 5.8 billion dollars when bitcoin price was $45,602 per 1 BTC. Many bitcoin users envy the whales during the bullish run because of the huge profits they bag and don't consider how bad is their losses like when the market plunges down.

Please don't talk about either profit or loss if you only see it on screen and don't take it. You don't have profit if you don't take profit and you don't have loss if you don't cut loss.

According to coinmarketcap MicroStrategy had a big loss of $1billion within one month when bitcoin price dumped to $37,800. On the other flip before considering how big the amount is, it's not totally a loss on their investment knowing that they bought bitcoin at the price rate of $30,700.

You can use MicroStrategy case to extrapolate it into long-term investors and short-term traders or speculators. Please don't misunderstand between speculator and investor. Their approaches and their plans are very different, long-term versus short-term. Well-planned approach versus bad-planned or no-planned approach.

BitcoinTreasuries's data shows that MicroStrategy have collected big amount for Bitcoin. Additionally, if you compares it to future supply of Bitcoin after the end of 2032-2036 epoch era, you will see how big their portfolio is.

• Look at Block Reward 7: after the end of it, only 164062.5 left for Bitcoin Future Supply.
• Look at the Bitcoin Treasuries, what is the total Bitcoin owned by MicroStrategy ? 129218 that is a damn big amount

[Don Pedro Dinero]

i call BS

no one makes a profit or a loss until they actually sell the coin
hoarding a coin has no profit or loss.

We can't consider this as a loss as you said, they haven't sold yet. So we are not talking losses here.

1BTC=1BTC meaning the whales don't lose anything as long as their keep holding their Bitcoin and not convert into US dollars,

Tell that to the market, that every time bitcoin goes down, it makes Microstrategy's shares go down, and every time it goes up, it makes them go up. What you say applies to an individual, and not always, because if an individual has shares in a company that goes bankrupt and its shares are worth 0, would you also say that he has not lost because he has not sold?

The valuation of a company includes its assets as well as its liabilities to calculate its net worth, which means that the market does consider this case a loss even if there is no sale.

[kidbounty]

But, the main point is, the higher the amount of bitcoin a person holds determines how huge their profits or loss will look like when the market is bullish or bearish.

Yes you are right, but you missed the most important part. all of that happened when he sold it. if he doesn't do it during a bull or bear market. he doesn't really make a profit. only the portfolio will be seen growing. a person can be said to get a profit when he sells the coins he owns. in the case of microstategy, it doesn't really make a profit or lose, because they don't sell in a bull or bear market. they just buy and keep buying.

[Accardo]

But, the main point is, the higher the amount of bitcoin a person holds determines how huge their profits or loss will look like when the market is bullish or bearish.

Yes you are right, but you missed the most important part. all of that happened when he sold it. if he doesn't do it during a bull or bear market. he doesn't really make a profit. only the portfolio will be seen growing. a person can be said to get a profit when he sells the coins he owns. in the case of microstategy, it doesn't really make a profit or lose, because they don't sell in a bull or bear market. they just buy and keep buying.

Ok I understand the point everyone is adding to my post. They will earn more profits if bitcoin should go bullish again and they are still in the safe side if their bitcoin is intact. I didn't view it this way and it makes sense to me now. Thanks all.

[BlackBaron]

Yes you are right, but you missed the most important part. all of that happened when he sold it. if he doesn't do it during a bull or bear market. he doesn't really make a profit. only the portfolio will be seen growing. a person can be said to get a profit when he sells the coins he owns. in the case of microstategy, it doesn't really make a profit or lose, because they don't sell in a bull or bear market. they just buy and keep buying.

The correct explanation, if the company is still holding on to coin assets, then only the condition of the portfolio will always change based on asset adjustments related to current market conditions, so it cannot be said to be profit or loss because they have not decided to sell in a bear or bullish market. Based on the issue, they don't really care about market conditions because they believe the future Bitcoin price will be very high and they already have a lot of BTC assets in their wallets for future assets.

[Silberman]

1BTC=1BTC meaning the whales don't lose anything as long as their keep holding their Bitcoin and not convert into US dollars, most of the big Bitcoin holders like micro strategy are in for long term gain and are holding Bitcoin as not some quick gain game as most traders take Bitcoin. I don't think whales will ever regret holding a large sum of Bitcoin since they are futuristic in their approach to the current price of Bitcoin may not mean much to them unless their want to convert it into another asset.

I do not understand why something like this is so difficult to comprehend to some people, but this kind of accounting in which a company declares they had losses during a quarter and what it really means is that they made less money than expected is simply a way to misrepresent their profits and nothing more, if someone is interested in the fiat exchange price of their bitcoin then as you say they have not lost nothing until they sell, and if someone is still in profits I cannot see how they can even say they lost money when those profits were still unrealized.

[Mpamaegbu]

At least, for a change someone is seeing a perceived investment loss for a whale and not the regular sob story of how a whale is manipulating the market. We often think that whales are immune to losses. However, no one loses until they sell and I don't think whales panic as much as retail investors do. With a long term mindset, I don't believe Microstrategy will even be bothered with what's happening in the market ATM. Long term hodlers are diamond hands and not paper hands.

[pawanjain]

The company with the highest amount of bitcoin as of march 31st holds about 129,218 BTC worth 5.8 billion dollars when bitcoin price was $45,602 per 1 BTC. Many bitcoin users envy the whales during the bullish run because of the huge profits they bag and don't consider how bad is their losses like when the market plunges down. According to coinmarketcap MicroStrategy had a big loss of $1billion within one month when bitcoin price dumped to $37,800. On the other flip before considering how big the amount is, it's not totally a loss on their investment knowing that they bought bitcoin at the price rate of $30,700. But, the main point is, the higher the amount of bitcoin a person holds determines how huge their profits or loss will look like when the market is bullish or bearish.

I don't know why is this such a big deal because every entity holding bitcoin has invested in it knowing the fact how volatile bitcoin is.
If a person has invested even $100 then he would encounter the same percent of loss as microstrategy if both their buy and selling prices are same.
So whether or not the amount is big or small, the profit or loss encountered as a percent is still the same depending on the buy/sell price.

[franky1]

Saylor can present his bitcoin investments more colorfully than they really are. In light of recent events, I'm starting to wonder more often, who is Michael Saylor, a true bitcoin HODLer or just a speculator? After all, the latest news that he began to buy bitcoins on credit secured by the bitcoins themselves with a maximum collateration of 50% somehow does not fit in with the role of a bitcoin HODLer, but rather a margin speculator.

A Bitcoin margin call. If the world’s leading cryptocurrency drops below $21,000, Michael Saylor’s MicroStrategy will be forced to pay up

when you buy a second house or a flashy car on credit. your not putting up your own money. your putting newly printed fiat whereby you agree to pay a bank later for the upfront printed money that allows you to buy something first, pay later. they ofcourse would ask to put your first house up as collateral. even if chances are that house is never touched or defaulted or lost

does this mean that people wanting to buy a second home are not home owners? just because they dont have the fiat upfront to buy the house?

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its not like he defaulted and had to pay out his collateral in a scheme similar to 'shorting'. he still got his bitcoin and also paid back the fiat. all he done was lock in the value at a certain price so that when he steadily pays the fiat over weeks/months he is not paying a variable rate of a loan but a fixed rate loan.

smart business plan

much better then those trying to coax idiots into 'DCA' where they have no control of the price they buy in at