During the crowdsale, there was speculation on Reddit that Ethereum was selling its bitcoin and pushing down the price. Vitalik jumped in to clear up those rumors and in an August 14 post said, “Less than 100 [Bitcoin have been] sold by the organization,” and that they planned on keeping their funds in the digital currency going forward. “We will hold BTC primarily because (1) we think it’s more likely to go up than down, (2) it’s easier to pay employees in BTC, and (3) if it does go down hard then that’s a partial indicator that the crypto space as a whole has become less appealing so our
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