Bitcoin Treasuries Can Earn More Bitcoin, says Willem Schroé
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Publicly listed companies are increasingly rebranding as Bitcoin (BTC) treasuries, with holdings now nearing 1.05 million BTC. Private companies have also piled in by adding another 279,185 BTC across at least 68 companies, bringing the total to 1.33 million, or about 6.3% of Bitcoin’s supply. The question now is whether these reserves will sit idle or be put to work. Willem Schroé, founder and CEO of Bitcoin yield network Botanix Labs, believes many won’t. “There are a lot of people and a lot of private companies that hold Bitcoin looking into Bitcoin lending and yield opportunities,” he told Cointelegraph. At least 273 public and private corporations have reported Bitcoin investments. Source: BitcoinTreasuries.NET Schroé first encountered Bitcoin during his cryptography studies in Belgium, where he researched authenticated encryption alongside some early Bitcoin contributors. He later attended Harvard Business School, where he founded Botanix Labs, a Bitcoin yield sidechain designed to turn Bitcoin from a passive store of value into a usable financial system. “The single thing every Bitcoiner wants — once you understand the full Bitcoin vision — is more Bitcoin.” Turning corporate Bitcoin into working capital Spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) hold even more Bitcoin than the aggregate total of private and public companies, with almost 1.7 million BTC. But their regulatory design leaves no room to put that Bitcoin to work. “They use a custodian like Coinbase or Anchorage, so they don’t have the keys or the ownership themselves,” said Schroé. “Step two is regulation — if you’re an ETF holder, you’re not allowed to do that.” The limitation stems from how spot Bitcoin ETFs are structured under US securities law. They are registered as passive commodity trusts under the Securities Act of 1933 and listed under the Exchange Act of 1934, a framework that allows them to track…
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