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Tesla Buys $1.5 Billion in Bitcoin

Tesla Inc. said Monday that it bought $1.5 billion in bitcoin, the electric-vehicle company also said it expects to start accepting bitcoin as payment for its products soon. Bitcoin prices jumped more than 10% after the announcement.

Tesla disclosed its bitcoin purchase in its latest annual report, saying the move aims to “diversify and maximize returns on our cash that is not required to maintain adequate operating liquidity.” Tesla said a board committee had approved changes to company rules on investments, adding that it can also invest cash in gold bullion and gold exchange-traded funds among other assets. The bitcoin purchase, likely among the largest by a public company, comes after a rally in 2020 when the price more than quadrupled. Tesla is joining a handful of other companies that have disclosed bitcoin holdings.

Tesla Buying Since December?!?

$75000 is a Realistic Target from here. According to TradingShot.

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“Thriller Podcast” has been around since early 2017 with over 400 bitcoin & crypto episodes broadcasting to over 160 countries. You can listen to all 4 Seasons with all the latest episodes at ThrillerX.com

The release of Thriller Podcast's first audiobook is released. It is called, One Satoshi at a Time: How Bitcoin Will Change The World. Total runtime is just about 3hrs 54min. Please make sure to share with everyone you know.

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Thriller Premium is covering MicroStrategy World.Now 2021 for the first year, because MicroStrategy is the first publicly traded company to invest significant treasury assets in Bitcoin. At World.Now, you'll hear from MicroStrategy Chairman and CEO Michael Saylor, as well as a slate of BTC industry luminaries, as they discuss this groundbreaking treasury reserve strategy. Were excited as hell to cover this event this year and bring you all the latest highlights to keep you up to date in what is going on with the Corporate adoption space of Bitcoin.

Our second day agenda, MicroStrategy interview senior executives from the leading vendors of Bitcoin products & services for corporations. Each interview lasts approximately 25 minutes and cover a broad range of topics. All interviews were conducted by either Michael Saylor (Chairman & CEO) or Phong Le (President & CFO). The goal is at the end of the second day, participants should have familiarity with key elements of Bitcoin strategies, tools & methods necessary to get started, & now know strategic vendors & offerings in the marketplace.

Highlights

Galaxy Digital Presentation with Mike Novogratz

About Galaxy DigitalGalaxy Digital is a diversified financial services and investment management company dedicated to the digital assets and blockchain technology industry. Galaxy Digital's multi-disciplinary team has extensive experience spanning investing, portfolio management, capital markets, venture capital, mining, and blockchain technology. Galaxy Digital currently operates four distinct business lines, which include: Trading, Asset Management, Principal Investing, and Investment Banking. Galaxy Digital's CEO and Founder is Michael Novogratz. The Company is headquartered in New York City, with offices in Chicago, San Francisco, Tokyo, the Cayman Islands (registered office), New Jersey and Hong Kong.

SPEAKERS:

Mike NovogratzCEO, Galaxy Digital

Michael Novogratz is the Founder, CEO and Chairman of Galaxy Digital. He was formerly a Partner and President of Fortress Investment Group LLC. Prior to Fortress, Mr. Novogratz spent 11 years at Goldman Sachs, where he was elected Partner in 1998. Mr. Novogratz served on the New York Federal Reserve’s Investment Advisory Committee on Financial Markets from 2012 – 2015. Mr. Novogratz serves as the Chairman of The Bail Project and has made criminal justice reform a focus of his family’s foundation. He also serves as the Chairman of Hudson River Park Friends, and sits on the boards of NYU Langone Medical Center, the Princeton Varsity Club, Jazz Foundation of America, and Artists for Peace and Justice. Mr. Novogratz received an AB in Economics from Princeton University, and served as a helicopter pilot in the US Army.

Michael J. SaylorChairman and CEO, MicroStrategy

Michael Saylor (michael.com) is the Chairman & CEO of MicroStrategy (MSTR), a publicly traded business intelligence firm that he founded in 1989. He is also the founder of Alarm.com (ALRM), named inventor on 40+ patents, & author of the book “The Mobile Wave”. He founded & serves as trustee for the Saylor Academy (saylor.org), a non-profit organization that has provided free education to 800,000+ students. He is an advocate for the Bitcoin Standard (hope.com). He has dual degrees from MIT in Aerospace Engineering & History of Science.

Kraken Presentation with Jesse Powell

About KrakenFounded in 2011, San Francisco-based Kraken is the largest Bitcoin exchange in euro volume and liquidity and also trading Canadian dollars, US dollars, British pounds and Japanese yen. Kraken is consistently rated the best and most secure Bitcoin exchange by independent news media. Kraken was the first Bitcoin exchange to have trading price and volume displayed on…

Thriller Premium is covering MicroStrategy World.Now 2021 for the first year, because MicroStrategy is the first publicly traded company to invest significant treasury assets in Bitcoin. At World.Now, you'll hear from MicroStrategy Chairman and CEO Michael Saylor, as well as a slate of BTC industry luminaries, as they discuss this groundbreaking treasury reserve strategy. Were excited as hell to cover this event this year and bring you all the latest highlights to keep you up to date in what is going on with the Corporate adoption space of Bitcoin.

Our first day agenda, MicroStrategy provided a concise yet comprehensive overview of the topics corporations needed to address as they develop & implement their Bitcoin strategy.

Topics included:

1. Macroeconomic environment, outlook, treasury & investment strategy 2. Integrating Bitcoin into the Balance Sheet or P&L of public & private companies 3. Financial, Operational, Systems, & Execution Considerations 4. Legal & Regulatory Considerations 5. Accounting, Tax, & Audit Considerations

Highlights

Bitcoin Macro Strategy

Bitcoin as an investment grade, safe-haven treasury reserve asset. Bitcoin is the solution to the store of value problem faced by all corporations & their customers. In this session, we will discuss:

Bitcoin as the emerging dominant monetary network

The pros & cons of other assets as a treasury reserve

The macroeconomic outlook for the coming four years

The history of Bitcoin & structure of the crypto industry

Critical developments this year and outlook for next year

SPEAKERS:

Michael J. Saylor Chairman and CEO, MicroStrategy

Michael Saylor (michael.com) is the Chairman & CEO of MicroStrategy (MSTR), a publicly traded business intelligence firm that he founded in 1989. He is also the founder of Alarm.com (ALRM), named inventor on 40+ patents, & author of the book “The Mobile Wave”. He founded & serves as trustee for the Saylor Academy (saylor.org), a non-profit organization that has provided free education to 800,000+ students. He is an advocate for the Bitcoin Standard (hope.com). He has dual degrees from MIT in Aerospace Engineering & History of Science.

Bitcoin Corporate Strategy

Bitcoin can be integrated into the P&L as well as the balance sheet of corporations.

Bitcoin treasury strategy

Bitcoin product strategy

Bitcoin service strategy

Bitcoin for competitive advantage

Bitcoin to avoid solvency challenges

Examples of corporations successfully integrated Bitcoin

Future opportunities & competitive dynamics

SPEAKER:

Michael J. SaylorChairman and CEO, MicroStrategy

Michael Saylor (michael.com) is the Chairman & CEO of MicroStrategy (MSTR), a publicly traded business intelligence firm that he founded in 1989. He is also the founder of Alarm.com (ALRM), named inventor on 40+ patents, & author of the book “The Mobile Wave”. He founded & serves as trustee for the Saylor Academy (saylor.org), a non-profit organization that has provided free education to 800,000+ students. He is an advocate for the Bitcoin Standard (hope.com). He has dual degrees from MIT in Aerospace Engineering & History of Science.

Bitcoin Corporate Playbook

A walkthrough of key strategic and operational considerations and associated steps to consider for corporations integrating Bitcoin into a treasury reserve strategy.

Corporate governance

Vendor selection & due diligence

Execution technique

Systems & risk controls

Debt, equi…

Today we discuss Bitcoin in February

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Bitcoin Market Health

We are right where we were in December 2020.

According to Stock to Flow we should be at 44K-46 K

BTC Past in Repeat?

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r/Wallstreetbets effect on the Bitcoin and Crypto Market in February…

SEC already released a note about the Gamestop debacle earlier this week, but it’s piling on with a new letter from its acting chair and commissioners (that includes Hester Peirce, (“Crypto…

In 1973 World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab launched the first Davos Manifesto, a set of ethical principles. 50 years after its founding, the Forum has launched a new manifesto. The global economy has undergone a huge transformation in this time, with the rise of big tech, China, wage inequality and ethi cal companies.

Thriller Premium is at it again covering Davos again this year, covering global insights into the impact Crypto & Bitcoin has on wider issues such as responding to Covid-19, restoring economic growth and advancing this new social contract.

Highlights

Resetting Digital Currencies (Option 1)

COVID-19 has accelerated the long-term shift from cash, with an 8% increase in non-cash payments in the euro area in 2020. Meanwhile, central bank digital currencies are emerging, potentially transforming how people use money worldwide.What policies, practices and partnerships are needed to leverage the opportunities posed by the rise of digital currencies?This session is associated with the following projects and initiatives of the World Economic Forum: Digital Currency Governance Consortium, and Reimagining Regulation: Pathways to Digital Currency.

Andrew Bailey

Currently Executive Director Banking and Chief Cashier at the Bank of England. Appointed to current role in January 2004 and has several key responsibilities to fulfil. Member of the Governor's Executive Team, which is the bank's senior management group. Formerly, Research Officer at the London School of Economics, before joining the Bank of England in 1985. BA and PhD, Queens' College, Cambridge.

Glenn H. Hutchins

Chairman, North Island and North Island Ventures; Co-Founder, Silver Lake. Director, AT&T, Virtu Financial and Digital Currency Group; Co-Chair, Brookings Institution and CARE; Member, Executive Committee, Boston Celtics Basketball Team and the Obama Foundation; Member of the Board, New York Presbyterian Hospital and the Center for American Progress. Member, Investment Board, Singapore’s Government Investment Corporation. Formerly: Director and Chair, Audit and Risk Committee, Federal Reserve Bank of New York; served President Clinton during the transition and in the White House as a Special Adviser on Economic and Healthcare Policy. Former: Chairman of the Board, SunGard Data Systems and Instinet; Director, Nasdaq; Director, Harvard Management Company; Co-Chairman, Harvard University’s capital campaign. Co-founded, with wife, the Hutchins Family Foundation which supports the construction of the Obama Presidential Center and has created the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University; the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution; and the Chronic Fatigue Initiative. Published essays on economic and public policy in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times, Fortune and Foreign Affairs. Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences. BA, Harvard College; MBA, Harvard Business School; JD, Harvard Law School.

Strengthening the Financial and Monetary System (Option 1)

Governments responded swiftly to the COVID-19 pandemic by providing fiscal and monetary support as well as adapting regulatory requirements to this new context. This Leadership Panel assesses the current health of the financial system, identifies potential emerging financial risks resulting from these historic interventions, and reflects on how industries and governments can work together to make key financial institutions more resilient in 2021.

Yi Gang

Governor, The People's Bank of China

PhD in Economics. 1978-80, studies, Department of Economics, Peking University. 1980-86, studied Business Administration, Hamline University; then pursued Doctorate in Economics, University of Illinois. 1986-94, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, then Professor, Department of Economics, Indiana Univer…

MicroStrategy will eventually be among the 5 Big Tech Companies in the World.

Facebook, Amazon, Google, Apple, Microsoft, MicroStrategy, Tesla who makes it out alive in the 2020’s?

news coming from Tim Copeland via Decrypt

MicroStrategy now holds 70,784 Bitcoin in total. According to the filing, the firm's average purchase price at $16,035 per coin. This is higher than it was previously, because the firm purchased new coins. In December, the firm completed its purchase of 29,646 Bitcoin. It managed to do so by raising $650 million in debt securities in order to invest further into Bitcoin.

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News reported from Danny Nelson via CoinDesk

A dipping of toes…

BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager with $7.81 trillion under management, appears to have granted at least two of its funds the ability to invest in bitcoin futures.

Prospectus documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Wednesday indicate that BlackRock Global Allocation Fund Inc. and BlackRock Funds V are at least eyeing bitcoin. They both include the world’s oldest cryptocurrency on their lists of derivative products cleared for use.

BlackRock did not state which commodity exchange it will choose to execute these crypto futures buys. However, the funds may only invest in cash-settled bitcoin futures. CME is the only exchange registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) that offers similar futures products at this time. The filings warn that investments in these futures could carry illiquidity risks due to the “relatively new” market. Regulatory changes, volatility and valuation risks could similarly weigh on the price and thus “adversely impact a Fund.”

The filings appear to mark BlackRock’s entrance into the bitcoin market.

Before Wednesday, the investments giant has never so much as mentioned “bitcoin” in any of its regulatory filings. But that appears to be changing: “Certain Funds may engage in futures contracts based on bitcoin,” the prospectus documents state.

Bitcoin 28K incoming?

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Bearish and Bullish all at once…what is going on?

Today we discuss Bitcoin Baby…

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How Serious am I about 75K?

News gathered from CoinDesk

Bitcoin is at it again. Last month, the price of the virtual currency quietly breached a new all-time high, cruising well past its prior peak of $19K set in 2017, and has been hovering around $36K at the time of writing. This follows a nearly 90% decline from those previous highs early in late 2018. This Year we have only fallen 20%. In 2013 Bitcoin moved from $240 to $410 in one week, in 2017 moved from $2400 to 4100 in one week and did same thing in 2020 moving from $24000 to 41000 in one week.

Well Quite Frankly these things are bullish for Bitcoin until the next halving.

Institutional buyers and wealthy individuals are still buying Bitcoin Grayscale had its biggest purchase day on the 15th this Month at 700 Million.

Speaking at an online event hosted by Princeton University in New Jersey, Jerome Powell said, “We don’t feel an urge or need to be first” on CDBCs. “Effectively,” Powell continued, “we already have a first-mover advantage because [the U.S. dollar is] the reserve currency.”

Powell estimated it will take “years rather than months” before the Fed releases a CBDC, despite early studies of digital dollar–friendly blockchains at the central bank’s Boston outpost.

Now Elon Musk…

2020 into 2021 - Will it happen again?

2012 into 2013 - The Original Double Top.

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“Thriller Podcast” has been around since early 2017 with over 400 bitcoin & crypto episodes broadcasting to over 160 countries. You can listen to all 4 Seasons with all the latest episodes at ThrillerX.com

The release of Thriller Podcast's first audiobook is released. It is called, One Satoshi at a Time: How Bitcoin Will Change The World. Total runtime is just about 3hrs 54min. Please make sure to share with everyone you know.

That’s right head over to BitcoinAudioBook.com to get your copy or listen to it there and please share with the world.

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