{"id":48093,"date":"2025-02-25T08:48:31","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T08:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/metaplanet-adds-to-bitcoin-haul-with-12-9-million-btc-purchase\/"},"modified":"2025-02-25T08:48:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T08:48:31","slug":"metaplanet-adds-to-bitcoin-haul-with-12-9-million-btc-purchase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/metaplanet-adds-to-bitcoin-haul-with-12-9-million-btc-purchase\/","title":{"rendered":"Metaplanet adds to Bitcoin haul with $12.9 million BTC purchase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>(Originally posted on : CoinJournal: Latest Crypto News, Altcoin News and Cryptocurrency Comparison )<\/b><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<ul>\n<li>Metaplanet now holds 2,235 bitcoin.<\/li>\n<li>The publicly-traded company is the \u2018Strategy\u2019 of Asia and aims to hit 10,000 BTC by end of 2025.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Metaplanet, the Japanese investment firm that has become one of the most aggressive buyers of Bitcoin, has added to its holdings with a fresh 135 BTC purchase.<\/p>\n<p>The company <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Metaplanet_JP\/status\/1894222608016580959\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> the purchase of the $12.9 million BTC on Tuesday, Feb. 25.<\/p>\n<p>Metaplanet acquired the Bitcoin at the average buy price of 14.3 million yen, or about $95,951 per BTC.<\/p>\n<h2>Metaplanet buys more BTC<\/h2>\n<p>As the company revealed in a release, this purchase brings Metaplanet\u2019s total holdings to 2,235 BTC. It sees the company\u2019s BTC haul rise significantly, having stood 1,761 BTC on December 31, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, Metaplanet held just 141 bitcoins on June 30, 2024.at the end of June 2024. This Bitcoin buying followed the investment firm\u2019s decision to adopt BTC as a treasury strategy in April, with the move drawing inspiration from Michael Saylor\u2019s Strategy ( <a href=\"https:\/\/coinjournal.net\/news\/microstrategy-rebrands-to-strategy-remains-focused-on-bitcoin\/\">formerly MicroStrategy<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Feb. 24, Saylor announced that his company had acquired an additional $1.99 billion worth of Bitcoin. The 20,356 BTC brought the firm\u2019s total holdings to 499,096 BTC acquired for over $33.1 billion.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Strategy has acquired 20,356 BTC for ~$1.99B at ~$97,514 per bitcoin and has achieved BTC Yield of 6.9% YTD 2025. As of 2\/23\/2025, we hodl 499,096 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24BTC&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$BTC<\/a> acquired for ~$33.1 billion at ~$66,357 per bitcoin. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24MSTR&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$MSTR<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mNWDaXRE7N\">https:\/\/t.co\/mNWDaXRE7N<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Saylor\u26a1\ufe0f (@saylor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/saylor\/status\/1894010574494687441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 24, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Strategy could surpass the 500k mark with the next buy, particularly as current prices offer a buy the dip opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>On its part, Metaplanet is looking to hit <a href=\"https:\/\/coinjournal.net\/news\/metaplanet-wants-to-boost-its-bitcoin-holdings-to-10000-in-2025\/\">10,000 BTC in 2025<\/a> and double that over the next year as it targets 21,000 bitcoin by the end of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin traded around $88,670 on Tuesday morning, down more than 7.3% in the past 24 hours. The entire market was down nearly 10% as a massive sell-off wiped out millions in crypto liquidations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/coinjournal.net\/news\/metaplanet-adds-to-bitcoin-haul-with-12-9-million-btc-purchase\/\">Source link <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Originally posted on : CoinJournal: Latest Crypto News, Altcoin News and Cryptocurrency Comparison ) Metaplanet now holds 2,235 bitcoin. The publicly-traded company is the \u2018Strategy\u2019 of Asia and aims to hit 10,000 BTC by end of 2025. Metaplanet, the Japanese investment firm that has become one of the most aggressive buyers of Bitcoin, has added [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":48094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48093"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}