Aoyon Ashraf is managing editor with more than a decade of experience in covering equity markets
miners, bought $100 million worth of BTC in the open market and said it will readopt its strategy to hold all mined bitcoin on its balance sheet.on Thursday that it now holds over 20,000 bitcoin, worth nearly $1.3 billion based on current prices, on its balance sheet and plans to buy more in the open market."Bitcoin’s recent price decline, coupled with the strength of our balance sheet, afforded us an opportunity to add to our holdings.
"Adopting a full HODL strategy reflects our confidence in the long-term value of bitcoin," said Fred Thiel, Marathon’s chairman and CEO."We believe bitcoin is the world’s best treasury reserve asset and support the idea of sovereign wealth funds holding it. We encourage governments and corporations to all hold bitcoin as a reserve asset.”
After the prolonged bear market, bitcoin started to recoup its losses this year after the likes of BlackRock got approval to offer spot BTC exchange traded-funds in the U.S. This move brought more investors into the market and helped the digital asset reach a new all-time-high price. Bitcoin has come off its peak of over $70,000 since then and now trading around $64,000 - still up 51% this year.
“Given Bitcoin’s current tailwinds, including increased institutional support and an improving macro environment, we are once again implementing this strategy and focusing on growing the amount we hold on our balance sheet," Marathon's CFO said.as of June 30 and will report its second quarter earnings Aug. 1. The shares of the miner is down about 2.5% in the pre-market trading, while bitcoin fell about the same amount in the last 24 hours.
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