
{"id":17308,"date":"2024-11-01T22:25:58","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T22:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=17308"},"modified":"2024-11-01T22:25:58","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T22:25:58","slug":"coinbase-is-embarrassing-itself-by-not-buying-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=17308","title":{"rendered":"Coinbase Is Embarrassing Itself By Not Buying Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Really, at this point, <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/tags\/coinbase\">Coinbase<\/a> is just embarrassing itself by not buying Bitcoin and doing silly buybacks. <\/p>\n<p>Coinbase just had a bad quarter. After reporting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-10-31\/coinbase-tumbles-most-since-2022-after-results-lag-wall-street-estimates\">disappointing Q3 earnings<\/a>, its stock plunged over 10%. To instill confidence, Coinbase announced a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblock.co\/post\/323819\/coinbase-announces-1-billion-share-buyback-as-it-reports-q3-earnings\">$1 billion share buyback<\/a>. But that flopped, too, with shares barely budging.<\/p>\n<p>This whole debacle just shows that Coinbase is foolishly ignoring the obvious strategy here \u2014 buying bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of share buybacks, imagine if Coinbase put $1 billion into bitcoin for its corporate reserves. That would have sent a real message. It would show they have skin in the game and truly believe in Bitcoin and crypto&#8217;s future.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s be clear &#8211; Coinbase should be all-in on Bitcoin&#8217;s upside. This is the industry they pioneered! Yet here we are in 2024, and Coinbase won&#8217;t follow the proven Bitcoin reserve model that is literally being flaunted in their face by <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/tags\/microstrategy\">MicroStrategy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Look, I am not any financial engineering expert to tell public companies what to do, but it&#8217;s just too evident for crypto companies at this point. <\/p>\n<p>MicroStrategy started buying Bitcoin in 2020. And look what&#8217;s happened \u2014 their market cap now exceeds Coinbase&#8217;s! This software company, with 1\/10th the revenue of Coinbase, has surged past the OG Bitcoin and crypto exchange. All thanks to stacking sats.<\/p>\n<p>How embarrassing for Coinbase! They&#8217;ve been around since 2012, when Bitcoin was $5. Just imagine if they went all-in on BTC back then. But it&#8217;s still not too late. <\/p>\n<p>No more wasting money on share buybacks or lame projects. The solution is staring Coinbase right in the face \u2014 just keep stacking sats!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s painfully obvious at this point. Any self-respecting Bitcoin and crypto company must hold Bitcoin on its balance sheet. It aligns interests with shareholders and strengthens credibility.<\/p>\n<p>So wake up, <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/tags\/brian-armstrong\">Brian<\/a>! No more excuses. Coinbase literally owes its existence to Bitcoin. It&#8217;s time to go all in at last.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article is a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/takes\/bitcoin-magazine-introduces-opinion-takes\"><em>Take<\/em><\/a><em>. Opinions expressed are entirely the author&#8217;s and do not necessarily reflect those of BTC Inc or Bitcoin Magazine.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really, at this point, Coinbase is just embarrassing itself by not buying Bitcoin and doing silly buybacks. Coinbase just had a bad quarter. After reporting disappointing Q3 earnings, its stock plunged over 10%. To instill confidence, Coinbase announced a $1 billion share buyback. But that flopped, too, with shares barely budging. This whole debacle just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}