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BEARISH 📉 : Bitmine Faces $6 Billion Loss as Ethereum Price Falls
Bitmine, a treasury firm with significant Ethereum holdings, is experiencing substantial unrealized losses due to the current market downturn.
- BMNR stock declined by almost 2% on February 3, with additional pre-market losses of nearly 1%.
- Bitmine holds 3.7 million ETH, initially purchased for $15 billion, now valued at approximately $8.41 billion, resulting in about $6.6 billion in unrealized losses.
- Chairman Tom Lee attributes these losses to the market's overall weakness and the firm's Ethereum treasury strategy.
- Despite these losses, Bitmine continues to acquire more ETH, purchasing 41,788 Ethereum on January 26 and staking an additional 209,504 ETH on January 27.
- The firm remains confident in ETH's long-term value, mirroring the actions of other investors who are also accumulating cryptocurrencies.