{"id":47321,"date":"2026-09-21T17:07:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T17:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=47321"},"modified":"2026-09-21T17:07:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T17:07:04","slug":"bitmine-buys-27562-eth-in-a-week-as-holdings-reach-17-1-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=47321","title":{"rendered":"BitMine Buys 27,562 ETH in a Week as Holdings Reach $17.1 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<br \/><\/p>\n<p>BitMine Immersion Technologies (BMNR) bought 27,562 Ethereum (ETH) over the week to September 20 and reported combined crypto, cash, and moonshot holdings of $17.1 billion in a press release and 8-K filed September 21.<\/p>\n<p>Total holdings rose $1.3 billion from the $15.8 billion BitMine <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/bitmine-adds-27180-ethereum-in-latest-purchase-pushing-stash-to-5-96-million-eth\/\">reported<\/a> a week earlier, when it added 27,180 ETH. The company marked its Ether at $2,688 per token, per Coinbase, up from $2,513 a week earlier. That mark puts the week&#8217;s purchases at roughly $74 million, with the treasury at 5,983,940 ETH.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"staked-total-flat-since-late-august\">Staked Total Flat Since Late August<\/h2>\n<p>BitMine Chairman Thomas &#8220;Tom&#8221; Lee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.co.uk\/news-releases\/bitmine-immersion-technologies-bmnr-announces-eth-holdings-reach-5-98-million-tokens-and-total-crypto-and-total-cash-holdings-of-17-1-billion-302884432.html\">stated<\/a> the company &#8220;has bought ETH each and every week since the inception of its ETH Treasury Strategy on June 30, 2025,&#8221; a track record he called &#8220;unmatched by any public company in the world.&#8221; The pace has <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/tom-lees-bitmine-slashes-weekly-ethereum-purchases-by-76-heres-why\/\">swung<\/a> this year; one July purchase fell to 7,430 ETH, down from more than 30,500, a slowdown Lee tied to share buybacks.<\/p>\n<p>Holdings equal 4.9% of the 122.1 million ETH in supply, and BitMine puts itself 98% of the way to its target of <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/bitmines-ethereum-hoard-surges-past-5-28-million-eth-as-company-nears-5-supply-target\/\">owning<\/a> 5% of all ETH, the plan it calls the Alchemy of 5%, 15 months after the strategy began.<\/p>\n<p>BitMine stakes 5,067,309 ETH, worth $13.6 billion at its mark and 85% of the treasury, through MAVAN, its Made in America Validator Network. The staked count has held there for five consecutive weekly updates, even as the token total kept climbing.<\/p>\n<p>Lee put projected annualized staking revenue at $357 million, up from $334 million a week earlier, rising to $421 million once the ether is fully staked, on a 2.62% seven-day yield.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"lee-sees-stronger-fourth-quarter\">Lee Sees Stronger Fourth Quarter<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We believe a crypto bull market is underway, having started in late June,&#8221; Lee said, citing &#8220;the rotation from AI back to crypto.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He put Ether&#8217;s quarter-to-date lead over the S&amp;P 500 at 6,519 basis points, called the run &#8220;a prelude to a potentially stronger up move in the 4th quarter of 2026,&#8221; and said the company expects institutions &#8220;to substantially increase their exposure in the final 3 months of 2026.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cash and marketable securities rose to $714 million from $549 million a week earlier. The release gave no reason for the increase. Alongside the ether, BitMine held 212 Bitcoin (BTC), a $180 million stake in Beast Industries and a $105 million position in Eightco Holdings (ORBS), up from $98 million.<\/p>\n<p>BMNR traded $1.2 billion in average daily dollar volume over the five days to September 18, ranking 100th of 5,704 US-listed stocks, according to Fundstrat, Lee&#8217;s research firm. The release ranks BitMine first among ether treasuries and second among crypto treasuries overall, behind Strategy (MSTR), which the release said owns 845,080 Bitcoin worth about $75 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/bitmine-buys-27562-eth-in-a-week-as-holdings-reach-17-1-billion\/\">BitMine Buys 27,562 ETH in a Week as Holdings Reach $17.1 Billion<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/bitmine-buys-27562-eth-in-a-week-as-holdings-reach-17-1-billion\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BitMine Immersion Technologies (BMNR) bought 27,562 Ethereum (ETH) over the week to September 20 and reported combined crypto,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43536,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-crypto","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}