{"id":7403,"date":"2025-01-13T16:07:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T16:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=7403"},"modified":"2025-01-13T16:07:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T16:07:44","slug":"global-investment-giant-capital-group-reaches-5-stake-in-bitcoin-holder-metaplanet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=7403","title":{"rendered":"Global Investment Giant Capital Group Reaches 5% Stake in Bitcoin Holder Metaplanet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>One of the largest investment companies in the world with more than $2.3 trillion in assets under management, Los Angeles-based Capital Group has become one of the biggest shareholders in Metaplanet.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Based in Japan, Metaplanet was a hotel industry investor that&#8217;s become notable over the past year for its bitcoin (BTC) treasury strategy modeled along the lines of Michael Saylor&#8217;s MicroStrategy (MSTR). Capital Group&#8217;s boosted stake was <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/gerovich\/status\/1877566445531574386\" target=\"_blank\">noted in an X post<\/a> by Metaplanet CEO Simon Gerovic.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Metaplanet holds 1,762 BTC and is the fifteenth-largest publicly traded company that holds bitcoin. Since they adopted a bitcoin treasury strategy in April 2024, their share price is up over 1,700%.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Capital Group is also the second largest shareholder of Bitcoin development company MicroStrategy (MSTR), owning 18.4 million shares, or more than an 8% stake in the company. Only founder and Executive Chairman Michael Saylor holds a larger stake. Other sizable investors include Vanguard Group, Morgan Stanley and Jane Street Group.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2025\/01\/13\/micro-strategy-added-2-530-bitcoin-for-243-m-bringing-holdings-to-450-k-btc\" target=\"_blank\">MicroStrategy Added 2,530 Bitcoin for $243M, Bringing Holdings to 450K BTC<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the largest investment companies in the world with more than $2.3 trillion in assets under management, Los Angeles-based Capital Group has become one of the biggest shareholders in Metaplanet. Based in Japan, Metaplanet was a hotel industry investor that&#8217;s become notable over the past year for its bitcoin (BTC) treasury strategy modeled along [&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-7403","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\/7403","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=7403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}