Share this article
BTC
$83,085.73
-
0.48%ETH
$1,799.88
-
0.68%USDT
$0.9996
-
0.00%XRP
$2.1005
-
1.65%BNB
$591.46
-
0.65%SOL
$119.14
-
1.49%USDC
$0.9999
+
0.01%DOGE
$0.1654
-
2.29%ADA
$0.6399
-
2.51%TRX
$0.2378
-
0.11%LEO
$9.1608
+
2.65%LINK
$12.67
-
1.57%TON
$3.2501
-
1.97%XLM
$0.2488
-
3.31%SHIB
$0.0₄1215
-
1.75%AVAX
$17.24
-
5.23%SUI
$2.1652
-
3.27%HBAR
$0.1582
-
2.47%LTC
$81.83
-
2.54%OM
$6.2243
-
0.79%Sign Up
- Back to menuPrices
- Back to menuResearch
- Back to menu
- Back to menu
- Back to menu
- Back to menuResearch
Metaplanet Buys Another $1.2M Worth of Bitcoin as Investment Strategy Progresses
The Japanese investment adviser said it acquired more than 20.2 BTC.
- Metaplanet spent $1.2 million to buy more than 20.2 BTC as part of its strategy to build up holdings of the world's largest cryptocurrency by market cap.
- The investment is part of its strategy, announced a week ago, of buying another $6 million worth of BTC.
Metaplanet (3350), a publicly listed Japanese investment adviser, said it bought more than 20.2 bitcoin (BTC) as part of a $6 million strategy to boost BTC holdings in its treasury.
In a statement on its website, the Tokyo-based company said it bought 200 million yen ($1.2 million) worth of bitcoin, taking its total holdings to 161.3 BTC. It posted a statement about the purchase to its account on social media platform X shortly after the close of trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
STORY CONTINUES BELOW
A week ago, the company said it planned to increase its bitcoin holdings by buying an additional $6 million worth of BTC. At the time, it already owned $9 million worth of the world's largest cryptocurrency by market cap. The focus on bitcoin was engendered by changes in the investment environment resulting from the Covid pandemic, according to the Metaplanet website.
The bitcoin-accumulation strategy mirrors the approach taken by Tysons Corner, Virginia-based software developer MicroStrategy, which has been buying BTC for almost four years and now owns over 226,000 BTC, more than 1% of the entire number of bitcoin that will ever be issued.
Metaplanet shares rose 1% before the announcement.
CORRECTION (July 1, 10:53 UTC): Corrects number of bitcoin held by MicroStrategy in penultimate paragraph.
Sheldon Reback
Sheldon Reback is CoinDesk editorial's Regional Head of Europe. Before joining the company, he spent 26 years as an editor at Bloomberg News, where he worked on beats as diverse as stock markets and the retail industry as well as covering the dot-com bubble of 2000-2002. He managed the Bloomberg Terminal's main news page and also worked on a global project to produce short, chart-based stories across the newsroom. He previously worked as a journalist for a number of technology magazines in Hong Kong. Sheldon has a degree in industrial chemistry and an MBA. He owns ether and bitcoin below CoinDesk's notifiable limit.
