{"id":60981,"date":"2022-05-04T14:36:34","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T11:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=60981"},"modified":"2025-09-05T09:24:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T06:24:38","slug":"microstrategy-to-study-new-scenarios-for-boosting-bitcoin-hodling-margins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/microstrategy-to-study-new-scenarios-for-boosting-bitcoin-hodling-margins\/","title":{"rendered":"MicroStrategy to Study New Scenarios for Boosting Bitcoin Hodling Margins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MicroStrategy will explore additional opportunities to profit from unencumbered bitcoins on its balance sheet. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microstrategy.com\/content\/dam\/website-assets\/collateral\/financial-documents\/events-presentations\/Q1-2022_microstrategy-earnings-presentation.pdf\">presentation<\/a> for the Q1 2022 earnings results.<\/p>\n<p>For the period, the company&#8217;s revenue amounted to $119.3 million, with expenses of $298 million, including $170.1 million due to a negative revaluation of <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcointreasuries.net\/\">129,218 BTC<\/a> ($194.1 million in Q1 2021).<\/p>\n<p>For January\u2013March, the company posted an operating loss of $170 million ($183.2 million). Net loss was $130.8 million ($110 million).<\/p>\n<p>As of March 31, 2022, the carrying value of the bitcoins stood at the equivalent of $2.896 billion. The figure reflects cumulative impairment losses of $1.07 billion since acquisition, and an average carrying value per coin of approximately $22,409.<\/p>\n<p>The cost basis and market value of the digital gold were $3.967 billion and $5.893 billion, respectively. The company bought bitcoins at an average price of $30,700, while the market valued them at $45,602 on March 31, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in March 2022, MicroStrategy <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.io\/microstrategy-privlekla-205-mln-dolgovogo-finansirovaniya-dlya-pokupki-bitkoina\/\">raised $205 million<\/a> in debt financing to purchase bitcoin from Silvergate secured by its crypto assets.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, CEO Michael Saylor <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.io\/glava-microstrategy-nazval-uspeshnoj-politiku-pokupki-bitkoina\/\">acknowledged<\/a> the successful policy of buying digital gold and <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.io\/majkl-sejlor-microstrategy-prodolzhit-narashhivat-rezervy-v-bitkoine\/\">promised<\/a> to continue following this strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, the company invested in its primary cryptocurrency <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.io\/microstrategy-kupila-bolee-4100-btc-za-190-millionov\/\">in April<\/a> \u2014 the investment total was $190 million.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog&#8217;s channel on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCC9FnXTC8_ENzaNSO5cHQ6g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">YouTube<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MicroStrategy will explore additional opportunities to profit from unencumbered bitcoins on its balance sheet, as discussed in the Q1 2022 earnings presentation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60982,"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":[18,1207,1211],"class_list":["post-60981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-microstrategy","tag-stock-market"],"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\/60981","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=60981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60983,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60981\/revisions\/60983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}