 
 
Since MicroStrategy began buying Bitcoin in August 2020, the corporate has solely appeared to buy extra with its CEO, Michael Saylor, insisting that they’re HODLing for the long run.
Nevertheless, these assertions appear to have been put to the check this month after a whistleblower flagged a pockets handle allegedly linked to MicroStrategy that appears to be “dumping” its BTC via crypto exchanges.
MicroStrategy “Promoting BTC is a factor”
“I simply realized that MicroStrategy has been promoting bitcoin with out telling nobody.” A Twitter person below the monicker “Ozz, CEO of altseason” wrote on Thursday. In keeping with Ozz, regardless of Saylor saying that they might not be promoting anytime quickly, the alleged pockets handle bought 1500 BTC on Wednesday.
To again his claims, Ozz supplied data displaying that the mentioned bitcoins had been transferred from MicroStrategy’s foremost custodial handle to a Secondary custodial handle earlier than being moved to OKX and Coinbase. Whereas ZyCrypto can not verify nor deny these assertions, knowledge on blockchain.com seem to strongly reinforce Ozz’s findings.
“Though the quantity bought yesterday is insignificant in comparison with MicroStrategy’s holdings promoting $63M price of bitcoin “is a factor” and since they announce their purchases, they need to announce their promoting actions too.” Ozz additional wrote.
 
 
Bitcoin Exit Technique?
On Friday, crypto pundit ‘Mr. Whale’ posted a weblog that additional places Saylor’s cachet to query. To Mr. Whale, “Michael Saylor has a shady previous” and has been infamous for preserving essential issues from the general public, which is why his phrase that they won’t promote Bitcoin shouldn’t be trusted”.
“He has been secretly dumping 1000’s of Bitcoin from his firm for months, whereas on the similar time urging others to “take out double mortgages and go all-in”, Mr. Whale who believes Saylor is planning a Bitcoin exit technique wrote.
He went on to state that the MicroStrategy boss had been the most important loser throughout the dot.com bubble after $13.53 billion in investor cash went to the drain.
“It’s clear his firm’s valuation is solely primarily based on his capability to draw hype by partaking in well-liked traits, which we noticed with their eagerness to be on the centre of the dot-com bubble and now with the bitcoin bubble.” the weblog learn.
Michael Saylor has since responded to the allegations regardless of Mr. Whale’s warning that the SEC could not really have the ability to save traders from what’s coming.
In 2013, Saylor who now claims to personally maintain over 17,000 BTC mentioned that “Bitcoin’s days are numbered” earlier than ranting on a later date that Bitcoin was “only a nugatory asset for gamblers to take a position.” These earlier assertions additional put his motive into query, which is why pundits imagine Saylor may have one or two tips up his sleeve.
At press time, Bitcoin is buying and selling at $38,850, down 2.01% on the day after breaching the $40,000 assist Friday.
