THELOGICALINDIAN - 304 canicule or almost nine months ago 42 companies captivated bitcoin on their antithesis area with an accumulated absolute of 1350073 bitcoin on March 1 2024 Today metrics announce there are 59 companies a few countries and exchangetraded funds ETFs with 1499493 bitcoin captivated in treasuries
Private and Public Companies, ETFs, and Countries — Treasuries List Highlights 59 Firms With Bitcoin on Their Balance Sheets
Over the aftermost 12 months, a abundant cardinal of companies accept appear that they accept added bitcoin (BTC) to the firm’s antithesis area and alike countries like El Salvador are now autumn BTC in their civic treasury.
On March 1, 2021, Bitcoin.com News reported that there were 42 firms that consisted of accessible and clandestine companies, alongside bitcoin funds as well. At the time 1,350,073 BTC was captivated by the company’s and it represented 6.43% out of the 21 actor best supply.
Now agnate to Microstrategy announcement a BTC acquirement every so often, the Salvadoran admiral Nayib Bukele has additionally been cogent the accessible about El Salvador’s BTC acquisitions. For instance, El Salvador purchased 21 BTC to bless the 21st day, year, and aeon on December 21.
The Bitcoin Treasuries account hosted on buybitcoinworldwide.com shows that there are 59 companies that authority BTC on their antithesis bedding and bristles altered countries. At the time of writing, the web aperture claims 1,499,493 BTC is captivated by these entities.
This equates to $71.6 billion in USD amount and 7.14% of the 21 actor BTC accumulation cap. Now the Bitcoin Treasuries account addendum that five countries own BTC and the aboriginal one on the account is Bulgaria, however, the backing of 213,519 BTC captivated by Bulgarian authorities is arguable and abounding bodies accept the bill were sold.
In April 2018, the bounded account advertisement Bivol explained that Bulgaria’s accounts minister, Vladislav Goranov, explained that the BTC was sold. Goranov acclaimed that the BTC was awash to “several absolute abundance funds and Asian investors.” It additionally acclaimed that Deloitte and the FBI helped facilitate the sales and the BTC was awash for €15,000 per unit.
If that backing is taken off the Bitcoin Treasuries list’s aggregate, the accepted BTC captivated by companies and four countries would be 1,285,974 BTC account $61.1 billion. The Bitcoin Treasuries account again says El Salvador holds 1,391 BTC, the UK government holds 46,351 BTC, Finland has 1,981 BTC, and Georgia has 66 BTC.
Microstrategy, Tesla, Galaxy Digital Hold the Top 3 Public Company Positions — Block.one, Tezos Foundation, Stone Ridge Hold the Top 3 Private Company Positions
That would leave the Bitcoin Treasuries account bottomward to ETFs, clandestine companies, and accessible firms. The about listed aggregation with the best BTC at the time of autograph according to the Bitcoin Treasuries account is Microstrategy, with 122,478 BTC or $5.8 billion account of coins.
However, the company’s CEO Michael Saylor told the public it purchased 1,914 BTC on Thursday. The Bitcoin Treasuries account shows that Tesla and Galaxy Digital authority the additional and third better bulk of bitcoin in agreement of accessible companies.
Tesla holds 42,902 BTC according to the account and Galaxy Digital has a backing of 16,400 BTC. Those two accessible firms are followed by Voyager Digital LTD (12,260 BTC), Square Inc. (8,027 BTC), and Marathon Digital Holdings (7,649 BTC).
That leaves 39 accessible companies captivation BTC on their antithesis bedding with firms like MOGO Financing (18 BTC), Phunware, Inc. (127 BTC), Coinbase Global, Inc. (4,482 BTC), and Brooker Group’s BROOK (BKK) (1,150 BTC).
Six clandestine companies authority bitcoin as able-bodied including Block.one (140,000), The Tezos Foundation (17,500), Stone Ridge Holdings Group (10,000), Massachusetts Mutual (3,500), Lisk Foundation (1,898), and Seetee AS (1,170).
Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust Dominates the Entire Bitcoin Treasuries List, ‘Who Owns All the Bitcoin’ Lists Are Not Entirely Accurate
14 funds authority 809,848 BTC according to the account and the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) holds 648,069 BTC of that total. Following GBTC, there are funds like CoinShares / XBT with 48,466 BTC, Purpose Bitcoin ETF with 22,411 BTC, and 3iQ Coinshares Bitcoin ETF that holds 21,237 BTC.
The Bitcoin Treasuries account gives a adequately acceptable glimpse of a cardinal of companies claiming to authority BTC on their antithesis area and it’s a abundant accord beyond than it was aftermost year. However, aloof like the alterity with the Bulgaria bitcoin backing mentioned above, none of the alleged “who owns all the bitcoin” lists are absolutely accurate.
In fact, after cryptographic proof, these types of lists don’t authority water back it comes to absolute onchain analysis and absolute “proof-of-reserves.” Despite this issue, the lists are advantageous for a beheld perspective, of what could be the case, if a majority of these entities are actuality accurate about their BTC reserves.
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