In short
- The Ethereum Foundation sold about $23 million worth of ETH to BitMine Immersion Technologies.
- It is the second straight weekly sale of 10,000 ETH for the leading Ethereum company.
- BitMine currently has 5 million ETH worth more than $11.7 billion.
The Ethereum The Foundation announced on Friday that it has completed the third sale of 10,000 ETH to BitMine Immersion Technologies, the largest company in the Ethereum economy, following a sale of the same size. finished last week.
The contract was struck at an average price of $2,292 per ETH, per year X postbringing the total transaction value to approximately $22.9 million. Ethereum is currently trading above that level at $2,305, rising nearly 2% over the past 24 hours according to data from CoinGecko.
“These sales provide funds for the operations and activities of the Ethereum Foundation, including the R & D process, ecosystem development, funding for the community and more,” the Foundation wrote, repeating previous messages about the sale.
Last Friday, the Ethereum Foundation announced sell 10,000 ETH to the company, at an average cost of $2,387 per share. In March, Foundation he sold his first ETH to BitMinedownloading 5,000 ETH at about $2,043 per coin. The foundation also traded 10,000 ETH to the financial services company Sharplink last July.
Ethereum’s price has fallen sharply since peaking at $4,946 last summer, a period that also saw the rise of many Ethereum-based investment firms that are increasingly bullish on the crypto market.
Although it is the largest such company-with a capital of 11.7 billion dollars-BitMine is currently sitting on an unrealized loss of more than 6.3 billion dollars due to the decrease in value.
Earlier this week, BitMine revealed its the biggest Bitcoin purchase of the yearearning 101,901 ETH over the past week—about $235 million worth at today’s prices. As of Monday, the company held more than 5.078 million ETH. (Disclosure: BitMine Chairman Tom Lee is Investor in Dastana large independent corporation Decrypt.)
BitMine stock (BMNR) rose on Friday, recently trading up 1.75% at $21.78. BMNR has risen more than 10% in the last month, at Yahoo Financewith the price of Ethereum alone rising 7.5% during the same period.
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