{"id":14583,"date":"2024-06-22T10:44:13","date_gmt":"2024-06-22T07:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/michael-dell-shows-interest-in-bitcoin\/"},"modified":"2024-06-22T10:44:13","modified_gmt":"2024-06-22T07:44:13","slug":"michael-dell-shows-interest-in-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/michael-dell-shows-interest-in-bitcoin\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Dell Shows Interest in Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Dell, the founder and CEO of Dell, has expressed interest in the leading cryptocurrency on the social network X.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bitcoin?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Bitcoin<\/a> is Digital Scarcity.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Saylor\u26a1\ufe0f (@saylor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/saylor\/status\/1803935782337442088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 20, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\n<cite>\u201cScarcity creates value,\u201d he wrote.<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The post caught the attention of MicroStrategy founder Michael Saylor, who described Bitcoin as \u201cdigital scarcity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In response, Dell retweeted Saylor&#8217;s message to his own profile.<\/p>\n<p>The following day, the CEO of Dell posted an image of Cookie Monster from the television show \u201cSesame Street,\u201d devouring digital gold instead of cookies.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bitcoin?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Bitcoin<\/a> is for Everyone.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Saylor\u26a1\ufe0f (@saylor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/saylor\/status\/1804144705900314770?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 21, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\n<cite>\u201cBitcoin is for everyone,\u201d Saylor wrote in response.<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/profile\/michael-dell\/\">Forbes<\/a>, Dell ranks 14th among the world&#8217;s wealthiest individuals, with a net worth of $109 billion.<\/p>\n<p>In June, MicroStrategy acquired an additional 11,931 BTC for $785 million.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the company announced plans to issue its own securities a week ago. The initial threshold was set at $500 million, but the firm later raised it to $700 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Dell, the founder and CEO of Dell, has expressed interest in the leading cryptocurrency on the social network X. #Bitcoin is Digital Scarcity. \u2014 Michael Saylor\u26a1\ufe0f (@saylor) June 20, 2024 \u201cScarcity creates value,\u201d he wrote. The post caught the attention of MicroStrategy founder Michael Saylor, who described Bitcoin as \u201cdigital scarcity.\u201d In response, Dell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,1156,1208,1207],"class_list":["post-14583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-institutional-investors-and-whales","tag-michael-saylor","tag-microstrategy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"13","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}