{"id":22615,"date":"2025-04-01T14:39:52","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T11:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/tether-acquires-8888-btc-bitcoin-reserves-reach-7-8-billion\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T14:39:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T11:39:52","slug":"tether-acquires-8888-btc-bitcoin-reserves-reach-7-8-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/tether-acquires-8888-btc-bitcoin-reserves-reach-7-8-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Tether Acquires 8888 BTC, Bitcoin Reserves Reach $7.8 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tether, the issuer of the USDT stablecoin, <a href=\"https:\/\/bitinfocharts.com\/bitcoin\/address\/bc1qjasf9z3h7w3jspkhtgatgpyvvzgpa2wwd2lr0eh5tx44reyn2k7sfc27a4\">purchased<\/a> 8888 BTC for $734 million. This transaction aligns with the issuer&#8217;s strategy of regularly increasing reserves at the end of each quarter.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing, the total amount of digital gold on the company&#8217;s balance sheet reached 92,646 BTC. The unrealized profit amounted to approximately $3.86 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Tether&#8217;s bitcoin reserves are valued at $7.8 billion, making the company the sixth-largest holder of cryptocurrency in a single wallet, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/bitinfocharts.com\/top-100-richest-bitcoin-addresses.html\">BitInfoCharts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"262\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2025-04-01-141935-1024x262.png\" alt=\"Snimok-ekrana-2025-04-01-141935\" class=\"wp-image-255440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2025-04-01-141935-1024x262.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2025-04-01-141935-300x77.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2025-04-01-141935-768x197.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2025-04-01-141935-1536x393.png 1536w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2025-04-01-141935.png 1903w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: BitInfoCharts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tether first disclosed its crypto reserves in May 2023. At that time, the firm announced its intention to regularly invest up to 15% of its profits in digital gold.<\/p>\n<p>On April 1, the &#8220;Japanese Strategy&#8221; company Metaplanet also <a href=\"https:\/\/contents.xj-storage.jp\/xcontents\/33500\/5d8413b7\/6ade\/43cb\/90e2\/3ffadef17e1e\/140120250331505547.pdf\">reported<\/a> purchasing 696 BTC for $67.9 million at an average price of $97,512.<\/p>\n<p>The firm&#8217;s total assets reached 4046 BTC ($340 million). Metaplanet plans to accumulate 10,000 BTC by the end of 2025 as part of its <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/metaplanet-shares-soar-90-following-bitcoin-reserve-acquisition\">bitcoin strategy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Back on March 24, the Strategy crypto reserve <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/strategys-crypto-holdings-surpass-500000-btc\">exceeded 500,000 BTC<\/a>. The company acquired 6911 BTC for $584.1 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tether, the issuer of the USDT stablecoin, purchased 8888 BTC for $734 million. This transaction aligns with the issuer&#8217;s strategy of regularly increasing reserves at the end of each quarter. At the time of writing, the total amount of digital gold on the company&#8217;s balance sheet reached 92,646 BTC. The unrealized profit amounted to approximately [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1538,1245],"class_list":["post-22615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin-purchase","tag-tether-usdt"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"20","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}