At the same time, he took a dig at the second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, Ethereum.
MicroStrategy has been regularly adding large BTC chunks to its balance sheet since August of 2020, and Tether holds Bitcoin among the assets that back the USDT supply issued by it. Michael Saylor’s business intelligence giant now has an astonishing $8.7 billion worth of Bitcoin, and this, surprisingly, exceeds the company’s market capitalization by $1 billion.
Earlier this week, Michael Saylor called on the cryptocurrency community not to sell their Bitcoin despite the continuous BTC price plunge, despite spot ETF approval by the SEC regulatory agency.
As for Tether, it acquired another Bitcoin stash amounting to $380 million last quarter. At the time of this writing, Tether holds 66,465 BTC.
Mow stressed the importance of the global flagship cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, instead of the second largest one by market capitalization value – Ethereum.
Mow has recently been tweeting about his expectations for Bitcoin to reach $1 million. Elaborating on that forecast in one of his tweets, the Bitcoiner explained that this prediction should not be expected to be fulfilled instantly, like after the spot Bitcoin ETF was greenlit. He meant that Bitcoin’s overall market fundamentals have changed compared to how they stood before.
In a tweet published earlier today, Mow stated that the Bitcoin price does not depend on the ETF approval; it rises of its own accord and at its own pace.