Square Buys $170M More Bitcoin, Deepening Crypto Bet
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For the first time in my life I have non-technical friends asking me how to invest in cryptocurrency, and I have to explain to them the real risk that there is a huge speculative bubble right now.
I am seeing the DeFi people reinventing all sorts of synthetics, derivatives and highly leveraged trading instruments in the absence of any regulatory oversight and can't help but wonder when there will be a reality check.
Even more worrying is the prospect that we don't get a price correction soon, lulling more retail investors and institutions to expose themselves to BTC. And when the fallout does happen it will hurt the real economy too (you know, the one that actually produces goods and services with value).
Crazy.
The crypto economy has created a lot of jobs. As far as I'm concerned that's pretty good value.
"We purchased $50 million in bitcoin in October 2020 and another $170 million in bitcoin in February 2021, and we may make additional bitcoin purchases in the future"
Btc is nearly half of SQ revenue. Btc mentioned 143 times in 10-k.
Question is besides SQ, MSTR, TSLA, which publicly traded cos have purchased and have yet to announce, and which will purchase/announce this year.