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比特币颓势难止,马斯克也不灵了

比特币颓势难止,马斯克也不灵了

Shawn Tully 2021-06-25
受比特币碳足迹的大量负面新闻以及中国打压的影响,似乎这位特斯拉的掌门人再怎么夸耀这款首要加密货币也是于事无补。

在此之前,埃隆•马斯克随便一篇力挺推文都足以让比特币(Bitcoin)的价格一飞冲天。这个现象如今荡然无存。受比特币碳足迹的大量负面新闻影响,似乎这位特斯拉(Tesla)的掌门人再怎么夸耀这款首要加密货币也是于事无补。如果这家电动汽车制造商令人瞩目的比特币豪赌以悲剧收场——目前已经接近盈亏边缘,那么其余震将为已经在消退的比特币热进一步降温。

别忘了,马斯克自己也能够加速比特币价格的下跌。他强烈呼吁让这个极其耗能的挖矿流程变得更加环保,如果这一点无法实现,他对比特币的热情会变成蔑视。

6月13日(周日),马斯克高调宣布拯救比特币。当时,其价格在3.5万美元左右徘徊,而此前在5月,其价格较其近6.5万美元的最高点出现了高达50%的跌幅。正好是在一个月前,马斯克曾经通过在推文上宣布特斯拉不再接受比特币购车,掀起了比特币的抛售潮。然而在6月13日,他反向操作,发推文称,“如果有确切的消息显示矿主采用了一定比例(约50%)的清洁能源”,那么特斯拉将继续接受比特币购车模式。

马斯克的改弦易辙提振了比特币萎靡的价格。在两天之内,比特币的价格升至42295美元,增长了14%,让其市值飙升了1750亿美元。然而这一次,马斯克式回弹仅持续了数天的时间,因为中国严厉打击挖矿行业的新闻使得比特币价格大跌,而中国无疑是全球比特币挖矿规模最大的国家。新疆、四川和云南这三个挖矿规模最大的省份均采取了行动,关停挖矿行业,而且中国人民银行下令各大银行禁止开展比特币交易,称“虚拟货币的投机性交易存在犯罪活动风险,例如非法资产转移以及洗钱。”

截至6月21日周一中午,比特币价格为3.28万美元,较马斯克拯救推文发布时的价格下滑了11.6%,而且较推文发布两天后的价格高位下探了近25%。比特币如今趋近2021年日间交易价格的最低位,也就是4月14日出现的30,682美元。

比特币价格的下滑已经让一呼百应的强效马斯克背书失去了作用,特斯拉在2021年年初至2月初期间购买了15亿美元的比特币,这是得到马斯克和首席财务官扎克•科克霍恩盛赞的策略。《财富》杂志估计,特斯拉最初以32610美元的均价购买了4.6万枚比特币。随后在第一季度,公司以2.71亿美元的价格出售了10%,也就是约4600枚比特币,获利1.28亿美元。3月底,其财报显示,剩余4.14万枚比特币的“账面价值”为13.3亿美元。鉴此,特斯拉账上每一枚比特币的平均成本基础为32126美元。(略低于特斯拉支付的平均价格;出于特斯拉比特币的会计列支规定,公司还对第一季度的投资认列了2700万美元的费用,此举略微降低了比特币剩余的成本基础。)

因此,按照3.28万美元的当前价格计算,特斯拉持有的比特币略高于其32126美元的盈亏点。一旦价格下跌2%或以上,其资产组合将出现亏损。在两个月前的比特币价格峰值期间,特斯拉的比特币资产收益为13.55亿美元。在这场突如其来的灾难中,账面收益蒸发了13.3亿美元以上,相当于特斯拉汽车和电池销售业务过去五个季度80%的税前利润。

当然,特斯拉实际上并没有亏钱,至少到目前还没有。它依然拥有约1.3亿美元已实现和未实现收益,基本上是其已售10%比特币的所有利润。然而,有谁可以知道比特币在第二季度结束时的6月30日会是什么样的价格?如果这种颓势依旧持续,那么特斯拉将出现账面亏损;如果比特币价格降至2.8万美元,那么特斯拉认列的“减值费用”可能会达到2亿美元。

对投资者来说,亲眼目睹比特币赤字侵蚀销售电动汽车的薄利是一件痛苦的事情。他们会思考,像马斯克这样明智的远见者是如何通过押注当代历史上最具波动性、最具争议的“资产”,来进一步推高超高风险股票的风险。马斯克过去的推文可谓是一箭双雕,不但给了比特币粉丝台阶下,同时还避免了特斯拉比特币资产出现赤字。马斯克用自己的实际行动证明,魅力非凡的影响力人物能够让大众相信:没有实际用途的事物也可以是价值连城。然而就像我们如今看到的那样,马斯克的背书只不过是一个沙堡,正逐渐湮灭在一波又一波负面新闻的冲刷之中。(财富中文网)

译者:冯丰

审校:夏林

在此之前,埃隆•马斯克随便一篇力挺推文都足以让比特币(Bitcoin)的价格一飞冲天。这个现象如今荡然无存。受比特币碳足迹的大量负面新闻影响,似乎这位特斯拉(Tesla)的掌门人再怎么夸耀这款首要加密货币也是于事无补。如果这家电动汽车制造商令人瞩目的比特币豪赌以悲剧收场——目前已经接近盈亏边缘,那么其余震将为已经在消退的比特币热进一步降温。

别忘了,马斯克自己也能够加速比特币价格的下跌。他强烈呼吁让这个极其耗能的挖矿流程变得更加环保,如果这一点无法实现,他对比特币的热情会变成蔑视。

6月13日(周日),马斯克高调宣布拯救比特币。当时,其价格在3.5万美元左右徘徊,而此前在5月,其价格较其近6.5万美元的最高点出现了高达50%的跌幅。正好是在一个月前,马斯克曾经通过在推文上宣布特斯拉不再接受比特币购车,掀起了比特币的抛售潮。然而在6月13日,他反向操作,发推文称,“如果有确切的消息显示矿主采用了一定比例(约50%)的清洁能源”,那么特斯拉将继续接受比特币购车模式。

马斯克的改弦易辙提振了比特币萎靡的价格。在两天之内,比特币的价格升至42295美元,增长了14%,让其市值飙升了1750亿美元。然而这一次,马斯克式回弹仅持续了数天的时间,因为中国严厉打击挖矿行业的新闻使得比特币价格大跌,而中国无疑是全球比特币挖矿规模最大的国家。新疆、四川和云南这三个挖矿规模最大的省份均采取了行动,关停挖矿行业,而且中国人民银行下令各大银行禁止开展比特币交易,称“虚拟货币的投机性交易存在犯罪活动风险,例如非法资产转移以及洗钱。”

截至6月21日周一中午,比特币价格为3.28万美元,较马斯克拯救推文发布时的价格下滑了11.6%,而且较推文发布两天后的价格高位下探了近25%。比特币如今趋近2021年日间交易价格的最低位,也就是4月14日出现的30,682美元。

比特币价格的下滑已经让一呼百应的强效马斯克背书失去了作用,特斯拉在2021年年初至2月初期间购买了15亿美元的比特币,这是得到马斯克和首席财务官扎克•科克霍恩盛赞的策略。《财富》杂志估计,特斯拉最初以32610美元的均价购买了4.6万枚比特币。随后在第一季度,公司以2.71亿美元的价格出售了10%,也就是约4600枚比特币,获利1.28亿美元。3月底,其财报显示,剩余4.14万枚比特币的“账面价值”为13.3亿美元。鉴此,特斯拉账上每一枚比特币的平均成本基础为32126美元。(略低于特斯拉支付的平均价格;出于特斯拉比特币的会计列支规定,公司还对第一季度的投资认列了2700万美元的费用,此举略微降低了比特币剩余的成本基础。)

因此,按照3.28万美元的当前价格计算,特斯拉持有的比特币略高于其32126美元的盈亏点。一旦价格下跌2%或以上,其资产组合将出现亏损。在两个月前的比特币价格峰值期间,特斯拉的比特币资产收益为13.55亿美元。在这场突如其来的灾难中,账面收益蒸发了13.3亿美元以上,相当于特斯拉汽车和电池销售业务过去五个季度80%的税前利润。

当然,特斯拉实际上并没有亏钱,至少到目前还没有。它依然拥有约1.3亿美元已实现和未实现收益,基本上是其已售10%比特币的所有利润。然而,有谁可以知道比特币在第二季度结束时的6月30日会是什么样的价格?如果这种颓势依旧持续,那么特斯拉将出现账面亏损;如果比特币价格降至2.8万美元,那么特斯拉认列的“减值费用”可能会达到2亿美元。

对投资者来说,亲眼目睹比特币赤字侵蚀销售电动汽车的薄利是一件痛苦的事情。他们会思考,像马斯克这样明智的远见者是如何通过押注当代历史上最具波动性、最具争议的“资产”,来进一步推高超高风险股票的风险。马斯克过去的推文可谓是一箭双雕,不但给了比特币粉丝台阶下,同时还避免了特斯拉比特币资产出现赤字。马斯克用自己的实际行动证明,魅力非凡的影响力人物能够让大众相信:没有实际用途的事物也可以是价值连城。然而就像我们如今看到的那样,马斯克的背书只不过是一个沙堡,正逐渐湮灭在一波又一波负面新闻的冲刷之中。(财富中文网)

译者:冯丰

审校:夏林

Until now, a mere tweet-of-confidence from Elon Musk has been enough to get Bitcoin's price spiking. Not any more. The tide of negative news on its carbon footprint and hostility from the Chinese government appear to be overwhelming any praise the Tesla chief can heap on the leading cryptocurrency. And if the EV-maker's celebrated Bitcoin bet goes bad––it's on the verge right now––the aftershock will further quash the frenzy that's already fading.

Keep in mind that Musk himself could hasten Bitcoin's decline. He's demanding that the energy-intensive mining process get a lot greener, and if that doesn't happen, his enthusiasm could turn to disdain.

On Sunday, June 13, Elon Musk famously rode to Bitcoin's rescue. At the time, its price was stuck in the mid-$30,000s after collapsing as much as 50% in May from its all-time high of almost $65,000. Exactly a month earlier, the Tesla CEO had helped spark the selloff by tweeting that the EV-maker would no longer accept Bitcoin as payment for its cars. But on June 13, he reversed course, posting that Tesla would resume taking Bitcoin from its customers "when there's confirmation of reasonable (approximately 50%) clean energy usage by miners."

Musk's change of heart boosted Bitcoin's flagging fortunes. Within two days, it was changing hands at $42,295, a gain of 14% that added a stunning $175 billion to its market cap. But this time, the Elon bounce lasted only a few days. News of a severe crackdown in the China, far and away the biggest nation for Bitcoin mining, sent prices reeling. All three of the provinces that host most of the production, Xinjiang, Sichuan, and Yunnan, unveiled campaigns to banish the industry, and the Central Bank of China ordered banks to ban Bitcoin transactions, declaring that "speculative trading in virtual currencies risks criminal activities such as illegal asset transfers and money laundering."

By midday on Monday, June 21, Bitcoin was selling at $32,800. That's 11.6% below its price when Musk issued his rescue tweet, and almost a quarter under the highs reached two days later. Bitcoin is now flirting with its 2021 intraday low of $30,682, posted on April 14.

Bitcoin's decline has already undermined the big Musk endorsement that set the great rally in motion—Tesla's purchase of $1.5 billion in coins between the start of 2021 and early February, a gambit cloaked in praise by Musk and CFO Zach Kirkhorn. By Fortune’s estimate, Tesla originally bought 46,000 coins at an average price of $32,610. Later in Q1, it sold 10% of its holdings, or around 4,600 Bitcoins, for $271 million, $128 million more than it paid. At the end of March, its treasury harbored the remaining 41,400 coins at a "carrying value" of $1.33 billion. Hence, the average cost basis for every Bitcoin now on Tesla's books is $32,126. (That's slightly less than the average price it paid; because of the specifics of Tesla's Bitcoin accounting, it also took a $27 million charge on the investment in Q1, which slightly lowered the cost basis on the coins that remain.)

So at the current price of $32,800, Tesla's holdings are hovering just above the breakeven number of $32,126. Another drop of 2% or more would send its portfolio underwater. What a comedown! At Bitcoin's summit of $65,000 just over two months ago, Tesla's stash was worth $1.355 billion. No less than $1.33 billion in paper gains have vanished in the sudden swoon, equivalent to 80% of the pretax profits Tesla garnered from selling cars and batteries in its past five quarters.

Of course, Tesla hasn't actually lost money, at least not yet. It's still sitting on realized and unrealized gains totaling around $130 million, consisting almost entirely of the profit on the 10% it sold. But who knows where Bitcoin will be trading when the second quarter ends on June 30? If the tailspin continues, Tesla will need to book losses; at $28,000, that "impairment" could be $200 million.

Watching Bitcoin deficits eroding the slender profits from selling EVs will distress investors. They'll wonder how such a brilliant visionary as Elon Musk could make a super-risky stock even riskier by wagering on the most volatile, controversial "asset" in modern history. Musk's past tweets achieved the dual mission of bailing out the glamorous regime of Bitcoin enthusiasts and keeping the value of Tesla's portfolio in the black. Musk has proved that charismatic influencers can convince folks that something with no practical uses is worth a king's ransom. But as we're now seeing, that pitch is a sand castle that wave after wave of bad news is washing away.

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