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Corporate Bitcoin Holding Strategies and the Role of OKJ

2025/05/30 10:00
Daisuke Hakkaku
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Corporate Bitcoin Holding Strategies and the Role of OKJ

Accelerating Bitcoin Holding Strategies Among Publicly Listed Companies

In this article, we focus on a notable trend surrounding crypto assets: the growing interest among general business corporations.

As of April 2025, approximately 19.85 million bitcoins (BTC) are in circulation. According to CoinGecko, publicly listed companies worldwide hold around 670,000 BTC, accounting for approximately 3.38% of the total supply. This figure surpasses the combined holdings of major nation-states like the United States and China (approximately 530,000 BTC), indicating that corporations are increasingly adopting bitcoin as part of their hedging strategies.

This global trend was largely driven by U.S. companies such as Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) and Tesla. In early 2020, during the economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, central banks worldwide introduced monetary easing policies. In response, bitcoin-due to its limited issuance-gained attention as "digital gold," alongside physical gold, as a hedge against inflation.

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