{"id":42730,"date":"2025-08-18T13:46:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T13:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=42730"},"modified":"2025-08-18T13:46:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T13:46:37","slug":"tom-lees-5-billion-ethereum-bet-puts-bitcoin-maximalists-on-notice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=42730","title":{"rendered":"Tom Lee&#8217;s $5 Billion Ethereum Bet Puts Bitcoin Maximalists On Notice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) maximalists typically <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/06\/45796252\/bitcoin-in-2025-digital-gold-for-uncertain-times\">call their coin &#8220;digital gold.&#8221;<\/a> But <strong>Tom Lee<\/strong>, Fundstrat co-founder and now chairman of <strong>Bitmine Immersion Technologies Inc<\/strong> (NYSE:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/stock\/BMNR#NYSE\">BMNR<\/a>), is maximizing the potential of a different digital asset \u2014 <strong>Ethereum<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/eth\/usd\">ETH<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p>Lee\u2019s company, in just 35 days, has quietly built the largest corporate Ethereum (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/eth\/usd\">ETH<\/a>) treasury in the world\u2014$5.26 billion worth of ETH.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Track $ETH price surge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/ETH-USD\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">From Bitcoin Miner To Ethereum Whale<\/h2>\n<p>Bitmine, once a traditional Bitcoin miner, flipped the script by pausing BTC mining and going all-in on Ethereum. Backed by <strong>Peter Thiel<\/strong>, the firm scooped up 833,137 ETH at an average price of $3,492 per coin. It didn&#8217;t &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/08\/47184911\/tom-lees-5-billion-ethereum-bet-puts-bitcoin-maximalists-on-notice\" alt=\"Tom\" lee billion ethereum bet puts bitcoin maximalists on notice>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) maximalists typically call their coin &#8220;digital gold.&#8221; But Tom Lee, Fundstrat co-founder and now chairman of Bitmine Immersion Technologies Inc (NYSE:BMNR), is maximizing the potential of a different digital asset \u2014 Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH). Lee\u2019s company, in just 35 days, has quietly built the largest corporate Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) treasury in the [&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-42730","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\/42730","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=42730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}