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Everyone has an opinion about the MicroStrategy margin call question. We reviewed the Silvergate loan documents and calculated the answers.

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MicroStrategy’s accountants tried to get away with not reporting paper losses on some of its Bitcoin purchases last year. The SEC noticed.

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