Selling Bitcoin doesn’t mean you’re not bullish: Cypherpunk CEO

cointelegraph.com:

Despite a massive wave of liquidations on the cryptocurrency market, some companies that sold their crypto over the past few months are not bearish on Bitcoin (BTC) at all.

Canada-based investment firm Cypherpunk Holdings was one of the companies that opted to sell crypto amid the crypto winter of 2022, liquidating 100% of its Bitcoin and Ether (ETH) by June. One of the first public companies in the world to ever invest in Bitcoin, Cypherpunk said at the time that it maintained its long-term “bullish outlook on crypto” despite selling all its digital coins.

One may find Cypherpunk’s crypto liquidation somewhat odd as the company’s stock is publicly trading under the ticker symbol HODL on the Toronto Stock Exchange. The acronym is widely used in the crypto community to refer to “Hold On for Dear Life,” or the bullish strategy of holding onto Bitcoin no matter what the market circumstances are.

According to Cypherpunk CEO Jeffrey Gao, crypto investors can still remain bullish despite cashing out their crypto from time to time.

“We're in this business because we are net bullish on crypto over the long term,” Gao said in an interview with Cointelegraph. Cypherpunk can go back into Bitcoin or into “any crypto or any basket of crypto” tomorrow if they want, and those are ​​”certainly opportunities” that the firm is actively pursuing, the CEO noted.

Gao said that the industry has seen forced liquidations as even “supposedly the most sophisticated” institutions like Voyager, Three Arrows Capital and Celsius got involved in operations that were “completely devoid of risk management.” According to the CEO, the absence or near absence of risk management is what really separates the crypto industry from something that is more mature. Gao