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View More NewsBut whatever the label on Sunday’s transaction, the direction has not changed since December. Trump Media bought 11,542 bitcoin for about $1.37 billion at an average of $118,522 a coin, close to the top of last year’s cycle. Wallets linked to the company have since moved out 7,281 of them. Onchain analytics firm Lookonchain said those flows as sales averaging $74,855 a coin, which against the original cost basis would mark roughly $318 million in realized losses, with another $237 million sitting unrealized on what is left.And the treasury has been shrinking faster than the business it sits on. Trump…
Holders of Strategy’s (MSTR) high-yielding preferred stock STRC will not see a dividend increase in August.Led by Executive Chairman Michael Saylor, Strategy is maintaining the current 12% dividend on the shares.STRC investors may have been expecting as much as a 50-basis-point hike in the dividend as Strategy has customarily raised the payout anytime the stock traded sizably below its par value ($100) for the month.As recently as July 1, Strategy had lifted the dividend 50 basis points following June’s plunge in STRC to as low as $71. While that hike — along with Strategy’s sale of some bitcoin to fund…
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Note: the following review contains plot spoilers.In the opening lines of his poem Ithaka, Constantine P. Cavafy (1863–1933), the second-most famous Greek poet to make his theme the perilous homecoming of the Trojan War hero Odysseus, wroteAs you set out for Ithakahope your road is a long one,full of adventure, full of discovery.Laistrygonians, Cyclops,angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them:you’ll never find things like that on your wayas long as you keep your thoughts raised high,as long as a rare excitementstirs your spirit and your body.(The translation is from Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard’s 1975 compilation, C.P. Cavafy, Selected Poems.) Christopher…
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