Nasdaq-listed video-sharing level Rumble (RUM) has invested $17.1 cardinal successful bitcoin (BTC) adding 188 BTC to its firm treasury, the institution announced.
The acquisition was made astatine an mean terms of $91,000 per coin.
The determination is portion of Rumble’s antecedently disclosed program to adopt a bitcoin treasury strategy and allocate up to $20 cardinal of its currency reserves to bitcoin. Rumble’s CEO Chris Pavlovski said the determination was portion of its further engagement successful the crypto industry.
“These holdings person the imaginable to service arsenic a invaluable hedge against ostentation and volition not beryllium taxable to dilution similar truthful galore overprinted government-issued currencies,” Pavlovski said successful a press release.
The institution added that aboriginal acquisitions would beryllium contingent connected factors specified arsenic marketplace conditions, bitcoin’s price, and Rumble’s currency travel needs. Late past year, starring stablecoin issuer Tether took a $775 cardinal stake successful the video-sharing platform.
Shares of Rumble closed down 2.38% implicit the past trading league and were up astir 4% successful pre-market trading to $8.1.