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This has to be the least convincing argument for not regulating Bitcoin:

“What about this obscure enterprise software company that took billions of loans to buy Bitcoin? The company’s shareholders would be very sad if they had a margin call on those loans.”

MSTR would presumably have to go back to selling software instead of speculating on unrelated assets. And everybody else can keep their Bitcoins too, it might just not be as easy to convert them to cash.




Nice strawman.


>What do you propose to do about entities like MSTR?

He answered the question.




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