Metaplanet, the Japanese hotelier that has been scooping up bitcoin
, has change into the fifth largest company holder of the most important cryptocurrency, racing previous Elon Musk’s Tesla.
The Tokyo-listed agency bought 1,234 BTC for $133 million at a mean value of $107,877. The seismic shift purchase has taken Metaplanet’s bitcoin stash to 12,345 BTC at a mean value of $98,303.
Metaplanet has been steadily buying bitcoin, a technique that has been copied by a bunch of corporations internationally. The bitcoin reserve technique was pioneered by Michael Saylor’s Technique, which stays the most important company holder of bitcoin with over 570,000 BTC.
Metaplanet’s seismic shift purchase takes its previous Tesla’s bitcoin holdings of 11,509 BTC, with the agency solely trailing behind massive crypto corporations, akin to MARA, Riot, Galaxy and Technique.
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