logo
welcome
vancouversun

vancouversun

Should Vancouver be 'Bitcoin friendly'? Crypto critic Frank Giustra says move would be 'reckless and stupid'

vancouversun
Summary
Nutrition label

68% Informative

Mayor Ken Sim recently put a motion forward, suggesting staff research whether Vancouver could become “bitcoin friendly,” or hold some of its financial reserves in the cryptocurrency.

Bitcoin has been in the spotlight in recent months as it has soared in value, reaching a new high of $ 105,987 US as of Monday .

It would not be legal for a B.C. municipality to put any reserves, which are typically held for specific capital projects, into bitcoin.

“It’s an asset in search of a purpose and has no tangible anything to it,” Giustra said.

“I don’t think the council would move ahead if city staff thought it was a bad idea, Vogel added.

I think it's just a review of proper capital treasury management and taking it into the current century ”.

VR Score

71

Informative language

69

Neutral language

57

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

55

Offensive language

possibly offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

short-lived

External references

10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coHC_9ApBdghttps://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https%3A//vancouversun.com/news/city-of-vancouver-bitcoin-cryptocurrency-financial-strategy&text=Should%20Vancouver%20be%20%27Bitcoin%20friendly%27%3F%20Crypto%20critic%20Frank%20Giustra%20says%20move%20would%20be%20%27reckless%20and%20stupid%27&via=VancouverSunhttps://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url= https%3A//vancouversun.com/news/city-of-vancouver-bitcoin-cryptocurrency-financial-strategy&text=Should%20Vancouver%20be%20%27Bitcoin%20friendly%27%3F%20Crypto%20critic%20Frank%20Giustra%20says%20move%20would%20be%20%27reckless%20and%20stupid%27&via=VancouverSunhttps://www.reddit.com/submit?kind=link&url=https%3A//vancouversun.com/news/city-of-vancouver-bitcoin-cryptocurrency-financial-strategy&title=https://www.reddit.com/submit?kind=link&url=https%3A//vancouversun.com/news/city-of-vancouver-bitcoin-cryptocurrency-financial-strategy&title=Should%20Vancouver%20be%20%27Bitcoin%20friendly%27%3F%20Crypto%20critic%20Frank%20Giustra%20says%20move%20would%20be%20%27reckless%20and%20stupid%27https://www.linkedin.com/sharing/share-offsite/?url= https%3A//vancouversun.com/news/city-of-vancouver-bitcoin-cryptocurrency-financial-strategyhttps://www.tumblr.com/widgets/share/tool?canonicalUrl=https://vancouversun.com/news/city-of-vancouver-bitcoin-cryptocurrency-financial-strategy&title=Should%20Vancouver%20be%20%27Bitcoin%20friendly%27%3F%20Crypto%20critic%20Frank%20Giustra%20says%20move%20would%20be%20%27reckless%20and%20stupid%27https://www.linkedin.com/sharing/share-offsite/?url=https://vancouversun.com/news/city-of-vancouver-bitcoin-cryptocurrency-financial-strategyhttps://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://vancouversun.com/news/city-of-vancouver-bitcoin-cryptocurrency-financial-strategy&media=https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/vancouversun/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/headshot-300x300-1.jpghttp://x.com/derrickpenner