Veteran short seller Jim Chanos on Tuesday blasted the financial instruments employed by Michael Saylor’s company, Strategy Inc. (NASDAQ:MSTR), to sustain its Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) play.
What happened: In an X post, Chanos argued that Saylor wants investors to value Strategy not only based on the net asset value of its Bitcoin holdings at market prices, i.e., NAV, but also to apply a multiple to the change in that NAV.
“It’s like claiming that your house, which increased in market value last year from $450,000 to $500,000, is actually worth $1.5 million, because you also have to put a 20x multiple on the $50,000 increase,” Chanos said.
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