{"id":42525,"date":"2021-05-14T19:51:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T16:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=42525"},"modified":"2025-08-30T23:35:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T20:35:12","slug":"square-abandons-plans-to-invest-further-in-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/square-abandons-plans-to-invest-further-in-bitcoin\/","title":{"rendered":"Square abandons plans to invest further in Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Square does not plan to invest further in the first cryptocurrency, said the company&#8217;s chief financial officer Amrita Ahudja in an interview <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.fnlondon.com\/articles\/square-has-no-plans-to-buy-more-bitcoin-20210514\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\\\">Financial News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\\\"wp-block-text-wrappers-update-2 article_update\\\"><time class=\\\"gtb_text-wrappers_update_time\\\">May 15, 2021 | 11:42<\/time><span class=\\\"gtb_text-wrappers_update_head\\\">Update: <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ahudja, in a comment to <a href=\\\"https:\/\/decrypt.co\/70937\/square-no-plans-bitcoin-strategy\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\\\">Decrypt<\/a>, denied the information. According to her, the company does not plan to change its investment strategy, of which Bitcoin will remain a part.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In October 2020, Square bought <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/square-invested-50-million-in-bitcoin\">4709 BTC for $50 million<\/a>. In February 2021, the firm <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/square-invests-a-further-170-million-in-bitcoin\">allocated $170 million<\/a> to acquire 3318 BTC.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\\\"https:\/\/s27.q4cdn.com\/311240100\/files\/doc_financials\/2021\/q1\/Q1-2021-Shareholder-Letter.pdf\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\\\">quarterly report<\/a>, the payments company reported a loss of $20 million due to the drop in the price of digital gold to $45,000.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\\\">\n<p>\\&#8221;At the moment we have no plans to make any further purchases,\\&#8221; said Ahudja.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Tesla said it would suspend sales of electric cars for Bitcoin due to concerns about the environmental friendliness of mining the cryptocurrency. After the publication, the price of the first cryptocurrency <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/tesla-halts-bitcoin-car-sales-and-roils-the-market\">fell to $45,700<\/a> \u2014 the lowest level since February.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2021, Square said that bitcoin sales through the Cash App <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/square-earns-3-51-billion-from-bitcoin-sales-via-cash-app-in-q1-2021\">brought in $3.51 billion<\/a> versus $1.76 billion in Q4 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Square does not plan to invest further in Bitcoin, said the company&#8217;s chief financial officer Amrita Ahudja in an interview with Financial News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,52,1534],"class_list":["post-42525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-investments","tag-square"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"18","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42525","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=42525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42527,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42525\/revisions\/42527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}