Nasdaq-Listed Microstrategy Obtains $205 Million Bitcoin-Backed Loan to Buy More BTC

Nasdaq-listed Microstrategy has obtained a $205 million bitcoin-collateralized mortgage from Silvergate Bank by means of a subsidiary to purchase extra bitcoin. “The interest-only time period mortgage is secured by sure bitcoin held in Macrostrategy’s collateral account.”

Company to Use $205M Bitcoin-Backed Loan to Purchase Bitcoin

The Nasdaq-listed pro-bitcoin software program firm Microstrategy introduced Tuesday that one in all its subsidiaries has obtained a bitcoin-backed mortgage to buy further BTC.

Microstrategy CEO Michael Saylor tweeted Tuesday:

Macrostrategy, a subsidiary of Microstrategy, has closed a $205 million bitcoin-collateralized mortgage with Silvergate Bank to buy bitcoin.

Silvergate Bank “has issued a $205 million time period mortgage underneath its Silvergate Exchange Network (SEN) Leverage program to Macrostrategy LLC,” Microstrategy detailed.

“The interest-only time period mortgage is secured by sure bitcoin held in Macrostrategy’s collateral account with a custodian mutually approved by Silvergate and Macrostrategy,” the corporate famous.

Under the phrases of the settlement, Macrostrategy will use the mortgage proceeds to buy bitcoins, pay charges, curiosity, and bills associated to the mortgage transaction, or for its or its mother or father firm’s basic company functions.

SEN Leverage, launched in 2020, offers institutional-grade entry to capital by means of U.S. greenback loans collateralized by bitcoin.

“The SEN Leverage mortgage provides us a chance to additional our place because the main public firm investor in bitcoin,” Saylor commented, elaborating:

Using the capital from the mortgage, we’ve successfully turned our bitcoin into productive collateral, which permits us to additional execute towards our enterprise technique.

Microstrategy has already acquired 125,051 BTC for its treasury. “Our technique with bitcoin has been to purchase and maintain, so to the extent we now have extra money flows or we discover different methods to lift cash, we proceed to place it into bitcoin,” the corporate’s chief monetary officer defined.

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