{"id":19477,"date":"2024-12-12T13:56:58","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T11:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/a-mere-0-55-of-microsoft-shareholders-back-bitcoin-reserve-proposal\/"},"modified":"2024-12-12T13:56:58","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T11:56:58","slug":"a-mere-0-55-of-microsoft-shareholders-back-bitcoin-reserve-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/a-mere-0-55-of-microsoft-shareholders-back-bitcoin-reserve-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mere 0.55% of Microsoft Shareholders Back Bitcoin Reserve Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The proposal by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research\">The National Center for Public Policy Research<\/a> (NCPPR) to allocate 1% of assets for purchasing the leading cryptocurrency<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/Archives\/edgar\/data\/789019\/000119312524275524\/d865252d8k.htm\"> was supported<\/a> by only 0.55% of Microsoft shareholders.<\/p>\n<p>The shareholders&#8217; decision followed the board of directors&#8217; rejection of the idea, citing the asset&#8217;s volatility.<\/p>\n<p>MicroStrategy&#8217;s CEO, Michael Saylor, presented the Bitcoin strategy, estimating that its implementation would increase Microsoft&#8217;s market capitalization by $4.9 trillion.<\/p>\n<p>According to Polymarket, the initiative&#8217;s likelihood of success<a href=\"https:\/\/polymarket.com\/event\/will-microsoft-shareholders-vote-for-bitcoin-investment\"> was estimated at 12-16%<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-1359.webp\" alt=\"1-1359\" class=\"wp-image-247546\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Data: Polymarket.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Currently, only 0.01% of publicly traded companies worldwide hold the leading cryptocurrency, according to OKG Research.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, on December 8, NCPPR made a similar proposal to Amazon shareholders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The proposal by The National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR) to allocate 1% of assets for purchasing the leading cryptocurrency was supported by only 0.55% of Microsoft shareholders. The shareholders&#8217; decision followed the board of directors&#8217; rejection of the idea, citing the asset&#8217;s volatility. MicroStrategy&#8217;s CEO, Michael Saylor, presented the Bitcoin strategy, estimating that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19476,"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":[1538,15],"class_list":["post-19477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin-purchase","tag-microsoft"],"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\/19477","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=19477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}