In other words, they are an example of collective stupidity at its finest.

ust give them time to realize it, after all, Bitcoin was never guaranteed to be a safe haven investment. Anyone claiming otherwise is likely just hyping it, especially if they're already heavily into Bitcoin.

Institutional investments will keep growing soon, and just because someone isn’t investing now doesn’t mean they won’t in the future.
Look at Jamie Dimon, he criticized Bitcoin before, and now he’s out here praising it.

What is the real purpose of this topic? Are you a Microsoft shareholder and you feel they have made you miss out on a huge opportunity to make a profit? Or are you feeling angry because they decided not to invest in bitcoin, and that couldn't push the price of bitcoin higher so you could make more profit?

The decision to invest is up to each individual/organization and if they refuse to invest in bitcoin, they are the ones who will suffer the loss of missing out on good profits, not us. Why do we feel bad about that?


I'm even glad they haven't invested in bitcoin yet, because that would give us more time to accumulate bitcoin at a better price. They haven't invested in bitcoin yet, which means they are giving us a chance, we should thank them for that.

That's the difference between a corporation run by a single person (yes, who has to get board approval but probably holds more sway alone) than a very mature one with a widely distributed decision-making process.

Be careful what you guys are wishing for -- corporations and businesspeople using Bitcoin on their balance sheet, part of their plaything alongside stocks, bonds, what-you-haves.

Since owning bitcoin I stopped investing in the stock market long ago because of the counter-party risk and having
to deal with the humans who run the companies, having to keep up with the news and ever-changing financials and
of fundamentals of each company, etc. in an attempt to figure out if I should keep holding or just dump it.

That is a lot of stress and time spent. To me it's not worth it anymore. Hundreds of great companies have gone bankrupt,
or destroyed their reputation, etc. over the years because of the poor decisions of the people running them,
or because of their incompetence, corruption, etc.

Boeing is a poster child example of this, and even Tesla to a lesser extent with such an erratic CEO running it.  
Are you going to tell me we shouldn't judge Boeing for deciding to abandon safety and quality in the name
of maximizing profits at all costs? That it was just a "business" decision? It's no big deal right?

If that is the case then you don't need bitcoin go invest in Microsoft, Boeing and Tesla LOL.

Hopefully Microsoft won't end up like Boeing, but you never know with any company.
Ten years ago no one could imagine Boeing's fall from grace would be so spectacular.

Public companies are supposed to be transparent with their decisions. Providing no more than a vague
"we have studied it and decided not to do it" is not a reason. That is not being transparent.
But it seems people are still quick to defend the terrible decisions of legacy companies even on a bitcoin forum.

That is what bitcoin was made for. Bitcoin is a trustless alternative to centralized human decision-making
and human-run institutions, which history shows often ends badly. Those you trust the most often end
up breaking your trust. But with bitcoin you don't have to trust anyone.

 

Microsoft isn’t a crypto company. Why would they add it to their balance sheets? It has nothing to do with them being smart or dumb. It is just not their business.

Gold is the most ancient and well known form of money and they don’t keep any gold in their balance sheets as well. Do we call them because they don’t hodl any godl?

Let’s stop being cringey eh?

Let’s focus on what really matters.

We are getting rich, bitcoin is going higher, more people use it. Who cares what microdicks do?

We have macrostrategy on the team. No need to waste time with microbrains.

Microsoft didn't become the successful company we know them to be today by making stupid decisions, the only reason why you think this is stupid is because you are a bitcoiner and this is BTC forum.

In some other forum that's not crypto related, they may not think the way you are doing right now. What you are saying right now is as similar as saying that any individual who has funds to invest, but has not invested in BTC is stupid, but that is not true, there are a lot of successful men who don't want to go anywhere near BTC, let's leave them alone.

We can't necessarily dictate to others what they are supposed to do with their money. Labeling them dumb is not necessarily needed. It's just like a Lamborghini user calling those that uses Cybertruck dumb people. Whether they(MS) realize sooner or later, it's all left for them, besides, they have enough capital to join whenever they've finally changed their mind.

From the quoted text you shared in the OP, they believed Bitcoin's volatility poses a huge risk, which is clearly understandable, but companies like Microstrategy definitely has a different story from that. $100K has become a thing of the past in a very short period of time, which proves that Bitcoin can definitely grow without them.

Their decision is their decision... let's respect that.

Seriously I found this kind of posts even more against the core concept of bitcoin itself because to be honest bitcoin founder himself tag bitcoin as an alternative and as an alternative you can simply just use this or go to other assets which isn’t a thing here, it is part of the freedom that comes with bitcoin. These are big companies or institutions that have been building over the years so a decision like this might look not quite good to us because we know the worth of the asset but to them it’s not all that but that doesn’t makes them stupid.

Microstrategy the biggest institutions in bitcoin holding today at an earlier stage of bitcoin had its founder Michael Saylor fudding bitcoin and saying it wouldn’t work out but today bitcoin is the best thing to him and he feels everyone should be investing into it, that’s how bitcoin has win lots of us to it and we can’t call the earlier decision stupid. Same thing with gold, it is the biggest asset to have and everyone knows this but does everyone has it? No because everyone have their own opinion