London-listed companies pile into bitcoin
London-listed companies are turning to bitcoin to boost their share prices, drawing Europe’s largest equity market into a growing global trend in which businesses are transforming themselves into proxies for the cryptocurrency.
At least nine companies, from a web design business to a gold miner, have in the past week announced that they have either bought bitcoin to add to their corporate treasuries or plan to Направете това.
Те следват харесванията на Японския Metaplanet и Germany Bitcoin Group, с цел да се стремят да подражават на тактиката на милиардера Майкъл Сейлър. The US software group’s valuation has soared almost 400 per cent to more than $100bn since August 2020 when it announced that would start raising billions of dollars to fund bitcoin purchases.
Their moves underscore a nascent shift in sentiment in London’s market, which has few digital asset-related stocks, restrictions on investors’ ability to buy US equity market funds and a regulator that has...
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