Business intelligence firm MicroStrategy has purchased another 1,914 Bitcoins for $94.2 million in cash, according to its recent regulatory filing.
The company's Bitcoin trove has now grown to 124,391 Bitcoins that are worth roughly $5.9 billion at current prices.
The latest purchase took place over the period from Dec. 9 to Dec. 29.
Alex DovbnyaIn early December, the firm also announced an $84 million Bitcoin purchase.
Last month, CEO Michael Saylor told The Information that he personally owned $866 million in Bitcoin. He expects the price of the leading cryptocurrency to skyrocket $600,000 without mentioning a specific time frame. Ultimately, Saylor believes that Bitcoin will continue appreciating for eternity because of its deinflationary nature.
In an interview with Yahoo! Finance earlier this month, the permabull acknowledged that a certain black swan event is the only legitimate risk for Bitcoin given that the largest cryptocurrency has not been hacked yet and all of its copies have "failed":
"The only legitimate risk is a black swan – an unknown unknown," he said in an interview. He dismissed some potential challenges: "Has it been hacked? No, it hasn't been hacked. Is it going to be banned? No, it’s not going to be banned. Can it be copied? We copied it ten thousand times. Every copy has failed."
A Christmas gift for sellers?
Bitcoin is currently up 2.16% over the last 24 hours, changing hands at $47,491 on the Bitstamp exchange. The largest cryptocurrency is down 16% this month.
Gold bug Peter Schiff is speculating that the price of Bitcoin would be "much lower" if it were not for MicroStrategy's buying spree. He describes Saylor's most recent purchase as a "Christmas gift" to sellers.
The MicroStrategy stock is up a modest 30% year-to-date, barely outperforming the benchmark S&P 500 index.
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