The 15 biggest public companies with Bitcoin (BTC) worldwide as of May 18, 2021

Published by Raynor de Best, May 18, 2021

Tesla made headlines in 2021 when it comes to buying Bitcoin (BTC), but the software company MicroStrategy held over twice their amount of the cryptocurrency. This according to an overview created by accessing what information was available from publicly listed companies, such as from their quarterly reports or filings. The figures provided are on how much Bitcoin the companies have bought and keep in their their corporate treasury, essentially making cryptocurrencies part of their assets and that company's investment strategy. Two companies stand out in this list: first, Tesla announced in March 2021 it would accept BTC directly - Bitcoins paid for their cars would be retained as Bitcoin, and not converted from BTC to U.S. dollar. This is unlike other companies that accept Bitcoin as a payment method like Microsoft, which uses payment processor called BitPay to convert cryptocurrency to fiat currency. Second, there is Coinbase: One of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges amid a Bitcoin price surge, the U.S. company went public in April 2021 and was seen as a potential blockbuster IPO.

Public companies with the largest Bitcoin (BTC) holdings in the world as of as May 18, 2021

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May 2021

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Worldwide

Survey time period

May 18, 2021, as of 13:43 CET

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For some companies, the source could determine that the public company owned BTC but not when they were bought. If that is the case, this public company does not have an entry in the "cost at time of purchase" column.

Supplementary notes

All figures provided were collected by the source from various places - including quarterly reports, 48k reports, financial statements and whitepapers. The source did not provide additional information on what time it used exactly to calculate the current BTC value: Figures could have been calculated based on the Bitcoin price from the end of a trading day, but also during the day. It is therefore likely that figures might change fast.