{"id":65455,"date":"2022-06-30T09:01:51","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T09:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=65455"},"modified":"2022-06-30T09:01:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T09:01:51","slug":"risk-of-significant-drawdowns-pushes-cypherpunk-holdings-to-sell-entire-stash-of-bitcoin-and-ethereum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=65455","title":{"rendered":"Risk of \u2018Significant Drawdowns\u2019 Pushes Cypherpunk Holdings to Sell Entire Stash of Bitcoin and Ethereum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/shutterstock_1063157114.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>On Tuesday, the Canada-based investment firm Cypherpunk Holdings Inc. announced that the company has sold all of its bitcoin and ethereum due to the \u201crisk of further significant drawdowns.\u201d The company has transitioned its treasury to cash after selling 214.72 bitcoin and 205.82 ethereum as Cypherpunk Holdings continues \u201cto see systemic risks propagating\u201d across the crypto economy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Cypherpunk Holdings Sells All of the Bitcoin and Ethereum on Its Balance Sheet<\/h2>\n<p>Crypto winter has done a lot of damage since the bull run\u2019s price highs, as <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/the-crypto-economy-soars-past-3-trillion-momentum-of-value-grew-much-faster-than-apples-market-valuation\/\">more than $2 trillion<\/a> has left the digital currency economy since the first week of November 2021. Today, the crypto economy is worth roughly $945 billion and <a href=\"https:\/\/markets.bitcoin.com\/crypto\/BTC\/\">bitcoin (BTC)<\/a> is coasting along just above the $20K per unit range.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"lar-automated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/markets.bitcoin.com\/crypto\/BTC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BTC<\/a> is down more than 70% from the all-time high ($69K) on November 10, 2021, and <a href=\"https:\/\/markets.bitcoin.com\/crypto\/ETH\/\">ethereum (ETH)<\/a> has lost more than 77% since the ATH ($4,878) recorded on the same day. On June 28, 2022, or eight months later, the publicly listed Canadian investment company Cypherpunk Holdings revealed it had dumped all of its bitcoin and ether holdings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cypherpunkholdings.com\/\">Cypherpunk Holdings<\/a> (CSE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/finance\/quote\/HODL:CNSX\">HODL<\/a>) (OTC Pink: CYFRF) was one of the many publicly listed companies that held bitcoin and ethereum on its balance sheet. The update from the company notes that the sale was due to risk and it said the crypto economy may see \u201csignificant drawdowns\u201d going forward.<\/p>\n<p>Cypherpunk Holdings sold approximately 214.7203 <a class=\"lar-automated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/markets.bitcoin.com\/crypto\/BTC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BTC<\/a> and 205.8209 <a class=\"lar-automated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/markets.bitcoin.com\/crypto\/ETH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ETH<\/a> and it got around $4,927,000 for the lot of crypto assets. The company said that it currently has just over $14 million worth of \u201ccash and stables\u201d on hand. After the sale, the CEO and president of Cypherpunk Holdings, Jeff Gao, spoke about dumping the digital assets for cash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRecently, Cypherpunk liquidated all of its treasury holdings in <a class=\"lar-automated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/markets.bitcoin.com\/crypto\/BTC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BTC<\/a> and <a class=\"lar-automated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/markets.bitcoin.com\/crypto\/ETH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ETH<\/a> for cash and withdrew back to custody,\u201d Gao wrote in an <a href=\"https:\/\/cypherpunkholdings.com\/cypherpunk-holdings-corp-update-june2022\/\">update<\/a> concerning the company\u2019s cryptocurrency holdings and strategy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe continue to see systemic risks propagating throughout the crypto ecosystem and, in our assessment of the risk reward and opportunity costs involved in holding asset tokens, we believe that the most prudent approach is to sit on the sidelines as we wait for the volatility and illiquidity contagion to come to its logical conclusion,\u201d Gao said. \u201cOn the balance of probabilities, we see weaker price action opening the way to lower levels to come as reports of the number of chains imposing \u2018temporary\u2019 suspension on withdrawals increases.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Cypherpunk Holdings executive continued by adding:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Until such a time as our thesis on market conditions change, our treasury will remain in cash. Cypherpunk maintains its long-term bullish outlook on crypto and currently plans to actively seek to capitalize on compelling risk reward opportunities as and when they present.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>Company Sold 196.74 Bitcoin and 382 Ether Prior to the June 28 Announcement and Amid the Terra LUNA Fallout<\/h2>\n<p>Furthermore, Cypherpunk Holdings dumped <a href=\"https:\/\/markets.bitcoin.com\/crypto\/BTC\/\">bitcoin (BTC)<\/a> before the June 28 announcement, as it <a href=\"https:\/\/cypherpunkholdings.com\/cypherpunk-holdings-announces-corporate-update-2\/\">told<\/a> investors on June 13 that it sold 96.74 <a class=\"lar-automated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/markets.bitcoin.com\/crypto\/BTC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BTC<\/a> for $2.9 million and 50 <a class=\"lar-automated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/markets.bitcoin.com\/crypto\/ETH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ETH<\/a> for $100K. Cypherpunk Holdings\u2019 management also decided to unload shares of Animoca Brands, as it sold the company\u2019s last block of 500,000 Animoca shares for \u201ca realized profit of 234%.\u201d Amid the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/a-dark-day-for-crypto-a-deep-dive-into-the-obliterated-terra-token-ecosystem-and-damaged-apps\/\">Terra LUNA and UST fallout<\/a>, on May 11, 2022, Cypherpunk Holdings <a href=\"https:\/\/cypherpunkholdings.com\/cypherpunk-announces-update\/\">sold<\/a> 100 <a class=\"lar-automated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/markets.bitcoin.com\/crypto\/BTC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BTC<\/a> and 332 <a class=\"lar-automated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/markets.bitcoin.com\/crypto\/ETH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ETH<\/a> for just over $4 million.<\/p>\n<p>With Cypherpunk Holdings removed from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buybitcoinworldwide.com\/treasuries\/#public\">Bitcoin Treasuries list<\/a>, and Microstrategy\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/microstrategy-buys-more-bitcoin-after-sec-says-btc-is-a-commodity-company-now-hodls-129699-bitcoins\/\">recent purchase of 480 bitcoins<\/a>, publicly-listed companies hold 268,357 <a class=\"lar-automated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/markets.bitcoin.com\/crypto\/BTC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BTC<\/a> worth 5.382 billion at current bitcoin exchange rates. Exchange-traded products hold 828,641 <a class=\"lar-automated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/markets.bitcoin.com\/crypto\/BTC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BTC<\/a>, countries hold 50,699 <a class=\"lar-automated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/markets.bitcoin.com\/crypto\/BTC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BTC<\/a>, and private companies own 174,381 <a class=\"lar-automated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/markets.bitcoin.com\/crypto\/BTC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BTC<\/a>, according to the Bitcoin Treasuries list on June 29.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>What do you think about Cypherpunk Holdings dumping its bitcoin and ether because it believes \u201cweaker price action\u201d is coming? Let us know what you think about this subject in the comments section below.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, the Canada-based investment firm Cypherpunk Holdings Inc. announced that the company has sold all of its bitcoin and ethereum due to the \u201crisk of further significant drawdowns.\u201d The company has transitioned its treasury to cash after selling 214.72 bitcoin and 205.82 ethereum as Cypherpunk Holdings continues \u201cto see systemic risks propagating\u201d across the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65456,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[309],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}