Fast Take
Semler Scientific (NASDAQ: SMLR), a number one developer and marketer of know-how services for combating persistent ailments, has unveiled the acquisition of 581 Bitcoins for a complete of $40 million, together with charges and bills. This daring determination emphasizes Semler Scientific’s confidence in Bitcoin as a dependable retailer of worth and a pretty funding alternative.
Eric Semler, Chairman of Semler Scientific, articulated the corporate’s new route:
“Our bitcoin treasury technique and buy of bitcoin underscore our perception that bitcoin is a dependable retailer of worth and a compelling funding.”
Semler additionally alluded to Bitcoin being an inflation hedge and secure haven asset and in contrast Bitcoin to gold:
“We consider it has distinctive traits as a scarce and finite asset that may function an affordable inflation hedge and secure haven amid world instability. We additionally consider its digital, architectural resilience makes it preferable to gold, which has a market worth of roughly 10 occasions that of bitcoin. Given the hole in worth between gold and bitcoin, we consider that bitcoin has the potential to generate outsize returns because it features rising acceptance as digital gold”.
Semler Scientific’s share worth is up 25% on the announcement, with a market cap of roughly $205 million.