News with the tag "Simon Gerovich"

Metaplanet holds 1,762 Bitcoin and wants to increase its stash by 467% to hold 10,000 in total.

At Michael Saylor’s high-profile New Year’s Eve $100,000 Bitcoin party in Miami, Simon Gerovich, President and CEO of Metaplanet—often dubbed as Japan’s MicroStrategy—shared his insights on the evolving landscape of BTC adoption among governments and corporations. In an exclusive interview , Gerovic...

Metaplanet’s latest Bitcoin purchase makes it the second-largest corporate Bitcoin holder in Asia behind Boyaa Interactive International, which holds 1,100 BTC.

Metaplanet has already doubled its Bitcoin holdings this month across four purchases totaling over 450 Bitcoin.

Just two days after revealing plans to raise $70 million via a stock rights offering, ‘Asia’s MicroStrategy’ has taken a $6.8 million loan from one of its shareholders to buy more Bitcoin.

Shares in Metaplanet and Semler Scientific are up double and triple digits since the firms followed MicroStrategy’s Bitcoin playbook this year.