{"id":33232,"date":"2025-06-23T15:17:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=33232"},"modified":"2025-06-23T15:17:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:17:05","slug":"brazils-meliuz-buys-28-6m-in-bitcoin-becomes-top-public-btc-holder-in-latin-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=33232","title":{"rendered":"Brazil\u2019s M\u00e9liuz Buys $28.6M in Bitcoin, Becomes Top Public BTC Holder in Latin America"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Brazilian fintech firm M\u00e9liuz (CASH3), which serves over 30 million users in the country, has become Latin America\u2019s largest publicly listed corporate holder of bitcoin BTC.<\/p>\n<p>The company said Monday that it <a href=\"https:\/\/ri.meliuz.com.br\/Download.aspx?Arquivo=UZzdcSP667ERm1DQZjTNZA==&amp;linguagem=pt\">acquired<\/a> an additional 275.43 BTC for $28.61 million following a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2025\/05\/31\/brazilian-fintech-firm-meliuz-plans-78m-equity-offering-to-buy-bitcoin-shares-plunge\">recent stock offering<\/a>, raising its total holdings to 595.67 BTC.<\/p>\n<p>That stash, purchased at an average price of $102,702.84 per coin, places M\u00e9liuz 36th globally among all listed companies that hold the largest cryptocurrency, the company said.<\/p>\n<p>The company reported a BTC yield of 908%. The figure is a metric used to track its bitcoin per share that is commonly used among companies betting on a BTC-focused treasury, though companies may track the yield differently.<\/p>\n<p>M\u00e9liuz\u2019 yield is notable and ranks it among the largest among bitcoin treasury companies, with The Blockchain Group recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/business\/2025\/06\/18\/the-blockchain-group-adds-182-bitcoin-lifts-btc-holdings-to-over-170m\">reporting a 1,173% BTC yield<\/a>. Strategy (MSTR), the world\u2019s largest bitcoin holder, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategy.com\/btc\">reported<\/a> a 19.1% year-to-date yield, while Metaplanet (3350) reported <a href=\"https:\/\/metaplanet.jp\/en\/analytics\">266.07% <\/a>and Semler Scientific (SMLR) 26.7%.<\/p>\n<p>M\u00e9liuz&#8217;s shares were recently 0.15% higher. Year-to-date, they&#8217;re up nearly 160%.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazilian fintech firm M\u00e9liuz (CASH3), which serves over 30 million users in the country, has become Latin America\u2019s largest publicly listed corporate holder of bitcoin BTC. The company said Monday that it acquired an additional 275.43 BTC for $28.61 million following a recent stock offering, raising its total holdings to 595.67 BTC. That stash, purchased [&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-33232","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\/33232","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=33232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}