Ethereum (ETH) treasury firm BitMine Immersion Technologies today announced that it had bought another 203,800 ETH last 0 its latest purchase, the firm’s total ETH holdings now stand 3.24 million 1 Continues To Stack Ethereum Despite Crash According to a press release issued earlier today, BitMine Immersion Technologies, a leading Ethereum treasury firm has further increased its ETH 2 firm added another 203,800 ETH over the last week, worth approximately $820 3 week’s purchase has increased BitMine’s total ETH holdings to 3.24 million ETH, representing roughly 2.7% of the active circulating 4 addition, the company holds 192 Bitcoin (BTC) and $219 in 5 firm has $1.34 billion in combined crypto and cash holdings.
BitMine’s frequent ETH purchases have propelled it as the leading public company in terms of ETH held on its balance 6 this month, the firm had reported that its total ETH holdings had surpassed 3 million tokens. Commenting, Tom Lee, Chairman of BitMine said: The crypto market saw one of its largest deleveraging events ever last week and this put downward pressure on ETH 7 interest for ETH sits at the same levels as seen on June 30th of this 8 the expected Supercycle for ethereum, this price dislocation represents an attractive risk/reward. We acquired 203,826 ETH tokens over the past week pushing our ETH holdings to 3.24 million, or 2.7% of the supply of 9 are now more than halfway towards our initial pursuit of the ‘alchemy of 5%’ of 10 added that he sees Ethereum as a “truly neutral” blockchain which is likely to witness growing institutional 11 added that BitMine remains committed to accumulating 5% of Ethereum’s total circulating 12 today’s announcement, the NYSE-listed firm’s stock BMNR surged an impressive 7.76%, trading at $53.72 at the time of 13 stock is up an astonishing 640.87% over the past six 14 ETH Destined For A New High?
As institutional adoption of Ethereum grows, analysts are predicting new all-time highs (ATH) for the second-largest cryptocurrency by market 15 to crypto analyst HAMED_AZ, ETH can surge to $6,400 on the back of a new bullish 16 trends show that some institutional investors are even replacing BTC with ETH, due to the latter’s greater flexibility and wider variety of 17 asset manager, BlackRock recently shifted some of its BTC holdings to 18 said, some analysts are cautious of the trend of Ethereum treasury firms adding ETH on their balance 19 press time, ETH trades at $4,019, up 1.2% in the past 24 hours.
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