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Strategy is increasingly turning to perpetual preferred stocks to fund its Bitcoin strategy, with the company adding 90,000 BTC to its balance sheet so far this year.Michael Saylor’s Strategy has announced several capital-raising programs totaling $44.1 billion to fund Bitcoin purchases, including the sale of common shares and two of its dividend-paying equity vehicles.Strategy plans to raise up to $21 billion by selling Strategy (MSTR) stock and another $21 billion from its high-yield perpetual preferred stock, Stretch (STRC), via new at-the-market programs, the company said in an 8-K filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday.Strategy also intends…
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A review of The West: A New History in Fourteen Lives by Naoíse Mac Sweeney, 448 pages, Dutton (May 2023).At the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in San Diego, California, independent scholar Mary Frances Williams stood up at the end of a panel on “the future of classics,” and suggested that classicists should view their field as the study of the foundations of Western civilisation. Classics “matters,” she went on, “because it’s the West.” Sarah Bond, a professor at the University of Iowa, cut in, declaring that ‘‘Western civilisation is a construct—a complete construction.”Since then, how…
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Bitcoin (BTC) spot volumes on Binance have dropped to their lowest level since September 2023, indicating that the current intraday price rise may not…
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from the if-the-knock-off-shoe-fits dept Normally, a post about the signing of an NFL free agent wouldn’t make it anywhere near these here Techdirt pages.…
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Bitmine Immersion Technologies (BMNR), the largest ether-focused treasury firm, bought 60,999 ether (ETH) last week as it continues to build up its holdings of…
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In brief Bitcoin is trading above $75,000 ahead of PPI data and the Federal Reserve’s rate decision, breaking a key resistance zone. Forecasts point…
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Bitcoin BTC$75,594.79 surged past $75,000 early Tuesday, helped by shifting dynamics in the derivatives market.Prices hit a high of $75,800, convincingly topping the long-term…