How a Japanese Firm Thinks Bitcoin is Worth a Small Fortune

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How a Japanese Firm Thinks Bitcoin is Worth a Small Fortune

Well now, folks, gather ’round and hear the tale of a little ol’ Japanese investment outfit called Metaplanet. They reckon a single Bitcoin is worth nearly $600,000—yes, you heard right, six hundred thousand bucks—while the rest of us are still trying to figure out if Bitcoin is a snake or a coin. 🐍💰

This gang of big spenders is buyin’ up 21,000 of them shiny digital coins by 2026, no doubt as serious as a bank robber in a church. According to some fancy report by 10x Research, their stockholders are chargin’ a premium that’s more than five times the actual Bitcoin price. That’s more hubris than a rooster at dawn! 🚀

“A little-known Japanese stock trades as if Bitcoin were worth $596,154, more than five times its actual price.”

Now, if y’all don’t understand that the NAV—meaning the real value of these investments—is like the weight of a feather in a tornado, you’d be payin’ far too much, for somethin’ that doesn’t promise any more upside than a worn-out mule. The NAV’s just the total worth of the assets divided by the number of shares—simple as judgein’ a hog’s worth by its shuffle. 🐖

Despite all this hoopla, firms like Metaplanet and Strategy are like the first saloon in the gold rush—important for gettin’ the masses interested in Bitcoin. They’re front-runnerin’ what some bright spark named “global hyperbitcoinization,” worth a staggering $200 trillion—like bettin’ on a race where the horses are invisible, but the money sure ain’t. 💸

Metaplanet’s the biggest fish in Asia’s pond and number ten all around the world when it comes to Bitcoin holdings—throwin’ in over 7,800 BTC, worth enough to buy a modest island or two. That’s about $855 million, or just enough to make the folks in Wall Street choke on their cigars. Bitbo says they own a tiny slice—0.037% of Bitcoin’s entire pie.

Not long ago, on May 19, they scooped up another 1,004 BTC for a tidy sum of $104.6 million, making it their second-biggest purchase. Even in a gold rush, folks still find ways to spend more than a man’s worth. 🤑

Now, as the price tags on Bitcoin climb higher than a cat up a tree, ordinary folks are startin’ to think twice before ponzin’ up. Unlike Wall Street wolves, the common man turned away long ago when Bitcoin topped $45,000, the same as a fancy new Ford in the good ol’ US of A. Only about 7% of the market’s folks with less than a dollar to rub together—bless their hearts—and they’re more likely to watch from the porch than dive into this digitale dice game. 📉

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Some other Bitcoin treasury tyrants are also askin’ a handsome price—like Michael Saylor’s Strategy, which is valuin’ Bitcoin at $174,100 a coin. Not exactly chump change, mind you, but still a ways from the real deal. The report points out that every time MicroStrategy issues more stock backed by Bitcoin, they’re just pocketin’ the difference and callin’ it a yield. Lazy, ain’t it? Besides, new shareholders are footing the bill for this fancy game, like the last fool in line at a snake oil sale. 🐍

“Every time MicroStrategy issues new shares to retail investors—shares backed by Bitcoin worth only a fraction of the stock price—the company pockets the difference and frames it as Bitcoin yield.”

And so the game goes, where folks with less sense than a gopher in a cornfield get their pockets picked. But what do I know? Maybe in the end, it’s just a fancy show for the folks with deep pockets and even deeper foolishness.

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2025-05-27 13:41