Tom Lee’s BitMine Posts $3.8 Billion Quarterly Loss Due to Ethereum Price Plunge
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In brief BitMine posted a net loss of more than $3.8 billion during the three-month stretch ending in February. The firm attributes most of the losses to the unrealized or paper losses mounting from its Ethereum holdings. Shares of BMNR are up about 1% on Wednesday, but have slid nearly 60% in the last six months. Leading Ethereum treasury firm BitMine Immersion Technologies lost more than $3.8 billion in the quarterly period ending on February 28, according to a new 10-Q the firm filed with the SEC on Tuesday. The firm’s net loss figure of $3.81 billion was largely driven by mounting unrealized losses from its Ethereum holdings, which accounted for nearly 99% of the firm’s reported losses. Over a longer timeframe, the losses are even greater, extending beyond $9 billion in the six-month span ending in February. “Our operating model is now anchored by our ETH treasury strategy and capital-light ecosystem services,” the firm wrote, adding that “ETH market conditions, which affect the value of our holdings and the economics of any staking or staking-adjacent activities,” are now a key driver of its results. The firm also posted an unrealized loss of around $21 million for its investment in Eightco (ORBS), a Worldcoin treasury firm that also provides investors exposure to private artificial intelligence giant and ChatGPT maker, OpenAI. (Disclosure: BitMine Chairman Tom Lee is an investor in Dastan, Decrypt‘s parent company.) All in, the results have soured substantially from the same period last year, when the firm reported a loss of just $1.15 million. The biggest culprit? Ethereum. The second-largest crypto asset, and the primary treasury vehicle for BitMine, has fallen nearly 53% from its August all-time high of $4,946, recently changing hands at $2,346. ETH was trading around $1,965 at the close on February 28, down from…
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