Crypto stocks: Down as Bitcoin slides

BTC Health

04/03/2021 10:18

** Shares of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related firms
fall premarket as Bitcoin  BTC=BTSP  drops 1.9% to $49,400.9 
    ** Bitcoin bank Silvergate Capital Corp  SI.N  down nearly
5% before the bell; cryptocurrency miner Riot Blockchain
 RIOT.O  drops 8.8% and Marathon Patent Group  MARA.O  falls 7%
    ** Shares of Overstock.com  OSTK.O , an online retailer and
blockchain tech investor, dip 0.6%; MicroStrategy Inc  MSTR.O ,
a BTC buyer and business intelligence software firm, slides 4.2%
    ** MSTR, led by bitcoin bull Michael Saylor, this week said
it holds ~90,859 bitcoins that were purchased for $2.19 bln
 urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nFWN2KZ12F urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL3N2KZ3DM
    ** MSTR in recent weeks raised hundreds of millions of
dollars in debt to buy BTC  urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL4N2KM2VF

 (Reporting by Aaron Saldanha)
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