On December 17, Beijing time, Bitcoin touched 107,000 USD each, rising 0.89% during the day. As of the time of writing, Bitcoin is priced at 107,472.3 USD each.
On December 16, MicroStrategy, which is about to be included in the Nasdaq 100 index, announced that it had purchased another 15,350 Bitcoins. The company now holds a total of 439,000 Bitcoins, valued at approximately 45 billion USD.
According to documents submitted by MicroStrategy to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the company spent approximately 1.5 billion USD between December 9 and December 15 to purchase another 15,350 Bitcoins at an average price of 100,386 USD each. After this purchase, the company holds 439,000 Bitcoins, accounting for approximately 2.1% of the total Bitcoin supply, valued at around 45 billion USD.
The funds for this Bitcoin purchase came from the company's latest sale of 3.88 million shares, raising approximately 1.5 billion USD. This share sale is part of a broader plan through which the company aims to raise 42 billion USD through stock and bond offerings, enabling further Bitcoin acquisitions.
According to the Securities Times, Michael Saylor, the founder and chairman of MicroStrategy, compared Bitcoin to New York City and its economy, calling it 'Network Manhattan,' as this cryptocurrency sets new records.
He said in an interview: 'We will keep buying; every day is a good time to buy Bitcoin.' He also remarked that it was like 'I would have bought Manhattan every year for the last 100, 200, or 300 years.'
Previously, on December 4 local time, at the DealBook/Summit conference hosted by The New York Times, Powell stated that regarding cryptocurrencies and the potential U.S. Bitcoin national reserve, he emphasized that Bitcoin's competitor is gold, not the dollar.
Powell stated that Bitcoin is like gold, only virtual. People do not view Bitcoin as a tool for payment or value storage; its volatility is too high. Therefore, Bitcoin is not a competitor to the dollar but is competing with gold.
On the evening of December 4, Meitu announced on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange that it had sold all of its purchased cryptocurrencies, with a profit of approximately 79.63 million USD (equivalent to about 571 million RMB).
The announcement shows that Meitu started selling its purchased cryptocurrencies in the market from November 2024. As of December 4, it had sold all of its purchased cryptocurrencies (a total of approximately 31,000 units of Ethereum and 940 units of Bitcoin, with total cash consideration of approximately 100 million USD and 80 million USD respectively).
At the same time, the board recommended using about 80% of the net profit from its sale to pay a special dividend, which will be a special cash dividend of HKD 0.109 per share; the remaining net amount will be used as general working capital to expand the group's video and design product business, primarily based on a subscription model.
It is reported that Meitu purchased these cryptocurrencies in March and April 2021, spending a total of 100 million USD.