{"id":25402,"date":"2025-07-17T18:01:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T15:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/bitmine-surpasses-sharplink-in-ethereum-holdings\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T18:01:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T15:01:19","slug":"bitmine-surpasses-sharplink-in-ethereum-holdings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/bitmine-surpasses-sharplink-in-ethereum-holdings\/","title":{"rendered":"BitMine Surpasses SharpLink in Ethereum Holdings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mining company BitMine Immersion Technologies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/bitmine-immersion-now-holds-approximately-1-billion-of-ethereum1-to-advance-its-ethereum-treasury-strategy-302507907.html\">has become<\/a> the largest public holder of Ethereum. It holds 300,657 ETH valued at over $1 billion.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"424\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2025-07-17-173848-1024x424.png\" alt=\"\u0421\u043d\u0438\u043c\u043e\u043a \u044d\u043a\u0440\u0430\u043d\u0430 2025-07-17 173848\" class=\"wp-image-262225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2025-07-17-173848-1024x424.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2025-07-17-173848-300x124.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2025-07-17-173848-768x318.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2025-07-17-173848-1536x636.png 1536w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2025-07-17-173848.png 1631w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategicethreserve.xyz\/\">Strategic ETH Reserve<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The firm raised $250 million through a private stock placement but allocated three times that amount to cryptocurrency purchases. The accumulation of Ethereum began in late June.<\/p>\n<p>BitMine stated that the ultimate goal is to acquire and stake 5% of the total supply of the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization.<\/p>\n<p>This strategy attracted major investors, with Peter Thiel&#8217;s Founders Fund <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/Archives\/edgar\/data\/1829311\/000141588925019780\/xslSCHEDULE_13G_X01\/primary_doc.xml\">acquiring<\/a> a 9.1% stake in the miner.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, SharpLink <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/sharplink-surpasses-the-ethereum-foundation-in-eth-reserves\">reported<\/a> holding 280,706 ETH, valued at approximately $962 million. Both companies possess more ether than the Ethereum Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Other public firms are also eager to increase their ETH reserves. GameSquare <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/gamesquare-completes-70-million-public-offering-302507965.html\">announced<\/a> the completion of a $70 million stock offering, stating that most of the proceeds will be used to boost reserves of the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization. The goal is to become one of the largest publicly listed holders of the altcoin.<\/p>\n<p>Back in April, the Nasdaq-listed miner Bit Digital <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/public-companies-increase-ethereum-purchases-amid-market-rally\">raised $67.3 million<\/a> for Ethereum purchases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mining company BitMine Immersion Technologies has become the largest public holder of Ethereum. It holds 300,657 ETH valued at over $1 billion. Source: Strategic ETH Reserve. The firm raised $250 million through a private stock placement but allocated three times that amount to cryptocurrency purchases. The accumulation of Ethereum began in late June. BitMine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25401,"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":[46],"class_list":["post-25402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-ethereum"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"47","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25402","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=25402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}