Exchange CEO advises Apple to hold Bitcoin
Bitcoin surged during the Lunar New Year, with the price once reaching $52,000 and the market value of the circulating supply exceeding $1 trillion. Not only are retail investors making huge profits, but companies such as MicroStrategy, an American business intelligence software company, that hold Bitcoin are also making considerable profits on their books. MicroStrategy, for example, has added $3.9 billion to its Bitcoin investments.
Recently, Eric. Erik Voorhees also posted on X, suggesting that Apple, the much-anticipated technology giant, hold Bitcoin.
Voorhees shared a post from the social account "Bitcoin Vanguard" in which he stated that it was unreasonable that Apple has been a technology leader for the past 30 years but does not hold any Bitcoin.
Voorhees wrote in response to this, suggesting that Apple could first quietly purchase billions of dollars in Bitcoin, and then announce that Bitcoin will integrate the Apple Pay payment function. This would have made the company billions of dollars in profit immediately.
Not only that, Chen Fang, chief operating officer of crypto custodian BitGo, also wrote that if Bitcoin integrates ApplePay and Apple’s latest head-mounted mixed reality device Vision Pro, Apple will be able to dominate the field of “metaverse payment”.
In fact, as early as 2021, Mike. Michael Saylor once suggested that if Apple integrates Bitcoin-related functions in the iPhone and converts the company's funds to "Bitcoin standards", that is, converts most of the reserves into holding Bitcoins, then it can Deliver at least $1 trillion in value to shareholders.
What’s Apple’s stance on cryptocurrency?
In early 2023, digital technology blogger Andy Baio revealed that after Apple launched the macOS operating system Mojave in 2018, Mac had a built-in PDF file of Satoshi Nakamoto’s “Bitcoin White Paper”, causing the community to speculate whether Apple would Launch cryptocurrency-related projects.
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However, the technology media "9to5Mac" later discovered that Apple had removed the Bitcoin white paper hidden in the system files.
In fact, Apple’s App Store has threatened to remove decentralized applications such as MetaMask, Coinbase Wallet, Trust Wallet and Damus from the shelves due to strict policies such as “in-app purchases”.
Although Apple itself has not expressed much goodwill towards the encryption industry, important figures within the company have admitted to investing in cryptocurrency.
For example, Apple co-founder Steve. Steve Wozniak said in an interview with "CNBC" that he had purchased Bitcoin and was very interested in using Bitcoin to pay. In addition, Apple CEO Tim Cook mentioned in 2021 that he holds cryptocurrency and believes that it is reasonable to use it as part of a diversified investment portfolio.
The opinions of the two people only represent their personal positions, but whether they will affect Apple's future decisions is still an issue worthy of attention.
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