{"id":18318,"date":"2025-03-20T17:20:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T17:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=18318"},"modified":"2025-03-20T17:20:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T17:20:12","slug":"biotechs-atai-life-sciences-joins-roster-of-firms-with-bitcoin-treasury-strategies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=18318","title":{"rendered":"Biotech&#8217;s ATAI Life Sciences Joins Roster of Firms With Bitcoin Treasury Strategies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Another company has elected to add bitcoin (BTC) to its balance sheet.<\/p>\n<p>Christian Angermayer, the chairman of Germany-based biopharmaceutical company atai Life Sciences (ATAI) announced today that the firm would develop its own bitcoin treasury strategy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn an era of persistent inflation and volatile markets, I find myself asking an important question for biotech companies looking to preserve and optimize the capital they have: Could allocating a portion of treasury cash to bitcoin help preserve, optimize, and even extend a company\u2019s runway and hence contribute to its success,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/christianangermayer.substack.com\/p\/why-bitcoin-can-be-a-valid-part-of\" target=\"_blank\">Angermayer wrote on Substack<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The company will initially invest $5 million in bitcoin, Angermayer said, while holding enough cash, short-term securities and public equity for operational expenses into 2027.<\/p>\n<p>The pharmaceutical firm is the latest in a long line of corporations which have sought to replicate Michael Saylor\u2019s bitcoin treasury strategy.<\/p>\n<p>ATAI briefly surged when the news broke but is now down 2.8% for the day. After briefly topping $87,000 overnight, bitcoin has been in quick retreat, now changing hands at $83,900, lower by about 1% over the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another company has elected to add bitcoin (BTC) to its balance sheet. Christian Angermayer, the chairman of Germany-based biopharmaceutical company atai Life Sciences (ATAI) announced today that the firm would develop its own bitcoin treasury strategy. \u201cIn an era of persistent inflation and volatile markets, I find myself asking an important question for biotech companies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-18318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}