The CEO of enterprise software program firm MicroStrategy, which holds greater than 105,000 bitcoins in its reserves, informed CNBC Friday that borrowing cash now to purchase extra bitcoin was like investing in certainly one of at the moment’s dominant tech firms within the early days. 

“When you borrow billions of {dollars} at 1% curiosity and make investments it within the subsequent Massive Tech digital community that you simply thought was going to be the dominant Amazon or Google or Fb of cash, why wouldn’t you?” MicroStrategy’s Michael Saylor stated, in line with CNBC. “I imply, if I may borrow $1 billion and purchase Fb a decade in the past for 1% curiosity, I feel I might’ve performed fairly nicely.”

Saylor famous that his firm has $2.2 billion of debt and pays about 1.5% curiosity on that debt. Since final August, his firm has financed its purchases of huge quantities of bitcoin utilizing firm money flows, fairness issuance, convertible debt, senior secured debt and a $1 billion shelf registration. 

“Our viewpoint is being a leveraged, bitcoin-long firm is an efficient factor for our shareholders,” he stated. 

Saylor additionally stated that the notoriety that its bitcoin purchases have given the corporate has elevated its model by an element of 100. 

MicroStrategy issued its second-quarter earnings report on Thursday, through which it stated it deliberate to proceed amassing bitcoin on its steadiness sheet. For the quarter, the corporate recorded an impairment of $424.8 million on its bitcoin holdings, since accounting guidelines drive it to take action when an asset’s worth drops under its price foundation. However appreciation in an asset is barely required to be reported as soon as a acquire is realized by a sale.

On the finish of June, MicroStrategy’s bitcoin holdings have been price $3.65 billion, reflecting bitcoin’s market worth of $34,763 on the time. The non-GAAP (usually accepted accounting ideas) digital asset price foundation of these holdings was $2.74 billion, or $26,080 per bitcoin.

UPDATE (July 30, 19:33 UTC): Up to date so as to add particulars of impairment fees within the sixth paragraph.