BitMine Buys 27,562 ETH in a Week as Holdings Reach $17.1 Billion

The company is on track to reach its goal of owning 5% of ETH's supply. BitMine Immersion Technologies (BMNR) bought 27,562 Ethereum (ETH) over the week to September 20 and reported combined crypto, cash, and moonshot holdings of $17.1 billion in a press release and 8-K filed September 21. Total holdings rose $1.3 billion from the $15.8 billion BitMine reported a week earlier, when it added 27,180 ETH. The company marked its Ether at $2,688 per token, per Coinbase, up from $2,513 a week earlier. That mark puts the week’s purchases at roughly $74 million, with the treasury at 5,983,940 ETH. Staked Total Flat Since Late August BitMine Chairman Thomas “Tom” Lee stated the company “has bought ETH each and every week since the inception of its ETH Treasury Strategy on June 30, 2025,” a track record he called “unmatched by any public company in the world.” The pace has swung this year; one July purchase fell to 7,430 ETH, down from more than 30,500, a slowdown Lee tied to share buybacks. Holdings equal 4.9% of the 122.1 million ETH in supply, and BitMine puts itself 98% of the way to its target of owning 5% of all ETH, the plan it calls the Alchemy of 5%, 15 months after the strategy beg...