Merged Bitcoin - Part 3

[steenkh]

USDT on Tron central to $1 billion money laundering scheme, feds say

A Venezuelan national allegedly laundered around $1 billion for crooks, feds say. He used a number of crypto wallets to do so. The alleged criminal transactions were made using Tether’s USDT on Tron.

www.dlnews.com

tether coin of choice in $1b money laundering scheme

seems like bitcoin has some competition

I sense a presidential pardon is coming up …

 

[Gord_in_Toronto]

Thursday will tell.

‘Get Ready’—U.S. Dollar ‘Collapse’ Warning Issued As Markets Brace For Gold And Bitcoin Price Shocks

traders are braced for this week’s inflation reading to be higher than previously expected—triggering warnings of "unprecedented stagflation"...

www.forbes.com

 

[dirtywick]

wait until you see what happens when strategy collapses

 

[dirtywick]

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/billionaire-michael-saylor-strategy-buys-131242709.html

buys another $263m bitcoin. stock price continues to dip, down to 143 now.

https://www.advisorperspectives.com/articles/2024/12/16/microstrategy-convertible-debt-scheme

in this article there's a chart about halfway with the convertible bonds sold and the maturation date, about $4b of which is in the next 3 years, with a company who's stock price is well below the point where people would convert their bonds into stock and dropping like a rock, whose business model is buy bitcoin and never sell.

so, where do they get the money to pay the bonds back? new investors?

edit

also should probably note the average purchase price for their something like 700k bitcoin holdings is like $72k, what happens if the bonds come due and the bitcoin price is at or below the average purchase price. new investors?

how much liquidity is there really