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1503CEO of Strategy: the company will sell Bitcoin only in case of emergency to BTC
Strategy CEO Fong Le stated that the company may resort to selling part of its bitcoin reserves only under extremely unfavorable conditions. According to him, this option will become possible only when the price of bitcoin falls below the net asset value, and access to new capital will be limited. In an interview with the What Bitcoin Did podcast, he noted that in a similar situation, selling BTC would be a way to protect earnings per share, since additional issuance of securities would lead to a dilution of shareholders' shares.
"We can sell bitcoin and we will sell it if we need funds to pay dividends with an mNAV below 1x," he said, adding that this would be a last resort. Strategy, which owns $56 billion worth of bitcoins, has already seen its mNAV drop to 1.19.
Esther Pierce: "People should be able to store crypto assets on their own"
Pierce said that the agency is currently developing clear rules for the issuance and exchange of tokens in order to clarify the regulation of crypto companies. The commissioner acknowledged that the crypto market has been operating under coercive pressure for too long, and Pierce expects the new rules to make oversight of the industry more predictable. The official insists that transaction confidentiality is the foundation of personal freedom and the development of the digital economy, and it should not be considered something illegal.
"I am fully committed to freedom. Self—storage of digital assets is one of the basic human rights. Why should I contact an intermediary to store my assets? I don't understand how this can be a problem in our free country. People should be able to store crypto assets on their own," Pierce said.
She also touched upon the issue of the division of powers to regulate the crypto market between the SEC and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). According to Pierce, spot trading of tokens should be regulated by the CFTC, while the SEC should maintain oversight of crypto assets that meet the criteria of real securities. Pierce explained that extending the powers of two regulators to the same products creates additional difficulties, so agencies need to pay attention to the fundamental characteristics of each crypto asset, rather than applying uniform requirements to all tokens.
Earlier, Pierce said that open source software developers, including cryptomixers, should not be prosecuted for illegally using the services they created. A few months ago, Pierce proposed regulating tokenized stocks on a par with securities.
What to expect this week
The coming week promises to provide an important insight into the state of the US economy: US regulators are assessing the trajectory of interest rates for 2026. The new data is likely to determine expectations about whether the Federal Reserve will continue its rate-cutting cycle.
On Sunday, US President Donald Trump said that he had already decided on a candidate for the post of the next head of the Federal Reserve, making it clear that he expected his appointee to further reduce rates.
On stock markets, Asian stocks fluctuated in early trading after their best week in two months, while futures for the S&P 500 declined slightly. Japanese stocks fell and the yen rose after Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda gave the clearest hint in recent times of a possible rate hike as early as this month.
Charles Hoskinson: Trump broke the four-year cycle of bitcoin
Hoskinson recalled the US president's election promises to turn the country into a global crypto capital. The Cardano founder admitted that Trump's words were backed up by actions.
However, instead of ensuring the stability and predictability of the crypto market, these measures created a speculative hype that distorted the four-year market cycle. And now the US government is "holding a bag" of an asset whose value has dropped significantly, and it is unknown when the exchange rate will recover, Hoskinson said.
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Strategy CEO Fong Le stated that the company may resort to selling part of its bitcoin reserves only under extremely unfavorable conditions. According to him, this option will become possible only when the price of bitcoin falls below the net asset value, and access to new capital will be limited. In an interview with the What Bitcoin Did podcast, he noted that in a similar situation, selling BTC would be a way to protect earnings per share, since additional issuance of securities would lead to a dilution of shareholders' shares.
"We can sell bitcoin and we will sell it if we need funds to pay dividends with an mNAV below 1x," he said, adding that this would be a last resort. Strategy, which owns $56 billion worth of bitcoins, has already seen its mNAV drop to 1.19.
Esther Pierce: "People should be able to store crypto assets on their own"
Pierce said that the agency is currently developing clear rules for the issuance and exchange of tokens in order to clarify the regulation of crypto companies. The commissioner acknowledged that the crypto market has been operating under coercive pressure for too long, and Pierce expects the new rules to make oversight of the industry more predictable. The official insists that transaction confidentiality is the foundation of personal freedom and the development of the digital economy, and it should not be considered something illegal.
"I am fully committed to freedom. Self—storage of digital assets is one of the basic human rights. Why should I contact an intermediary to store my assets? I don't understand how this can be a problem in our free country. People should be able to store crypto assets on their own," Pierce said.
She also touched upon the issue of the division of powers to regulate the crypto market between the SEC and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). According to Pierce, spot trading of tokens should be regulated by the CFTC, while the SEC should maintain oversight of crypto assets that meet the criteria of real securities. Pierce explained that extending the powers of two regulators to the same products creates additional difficulties, so agencies need to pay attention to the fundamental characteristics of each crypto asset, rather than applying uniform requirements to all tokens.
Earlier, Pierce said that open source software developers, including cryptomixers, should not be prosecuted for illegally using the services they created. A few months ago, Pierce proposed regulating tokenized stocks on a par with securities.
What to expect this week
The coming week promises to provide an important insight into the state of the US economy: US regulators are assessing the trajectory of interest rates for 2026. The new data is likely to determine expectations about whether the Federal Reserve will continue its rate-cutting cycle.
On Sunday, US President Donald Trump said that he had already decided on a candidate for the post of the next head of the Federal Reserve, making it clear that he expected his appointee to further reduce rates.
On stock markets, Asian stocks fluctuated in early trading after their best week in two months, while futures for the S&P 500 declined slightly. Japanese stocks fell and the yen rose after Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda gave the clearest hint in recent times of a possible rate hike as early as this month.
Charles Hoskinson: Trump broke the four-year cycle of bitcoin
Hoskinson recalled the US president's election promises to turn the country into a global crypto capital. The Cardano founder admitted that Trump's words were backed up by actions.
However, instead of ensuring the stability and predictability of the crypto market, these measures created a speculative hype that distorted the four-year market cycle. And now the US government is "holding a bag" of an asset whose value has dropped significantly, and it is unknown when the exchange rate will recover, Hoskinson said.
Profinance.ru
Bloomberg
Crypto.ru
bits.media
CoinEx
