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View More NewsStack BTC, an Aquis-listed Bitcoin treasury company chaired by former UK Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, purchased 2 million British pounds ($2.7 million) worth of Bitcoin on Monday, as Nigel Farage deepens his ties to the firm.According to an April 13 filing, the company purchased 37 Bitcoin (BTC) as part of its treasury strategy at a price of roughly $72,385 per coin and now holds a total of 68.1898 BTC.The purchase follows Farage’s previously disclosed $286,000 equity investment in the company, which has been marketing itself as a way for UK investors to gain Bitcoin exposure via public markets, and makes Farage…
Michael Saylor’s Strategy (MSTR) added 13,927 bitcoin to its treasury over the past week at an average price of about $71,902 per coin, for a total cost of roughly $1 billion, according to a Monday filing.The purchase brings the company’s total holdings to 780,897 BTC, acquired for approximately $59.02 billion at an average cost basis of $75,577.Last week’s acquisitions were entirely funded by $1 billion raised through sales of the company’s preferred stock, Stretch (STRC).The current price of bitcoin is hovering just below $71,000, while MSTR shares are down more than 2.5% in pre-market trading.Read More: The one metric investors…
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There’s a certain kind of book that doesn’t excite my interest in newly published form, but which I will hungrily snatch up when a beaten-in paperback edition gets tossed to the curb. My Toronto neighbourhood, being well-populated by empty nesters with a view toward downsizing, regularly surrenders such treasures by the boxload—alongside old puzzles, CD holders, underused exercise equipment, and half-collapsed street-hockey nets.My favourite specimens are non-fiction blockbusters from the Cold War period, when these greying neighbours were still starry-eyed undergraduates, eager for the mind-expanding revelations of new-age prophets and ancient mystics. My latest haul included Understanding Media by Marshall…
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