The firm, which intends to go public via a SPAC deal with Columbus Circle Capital, added 3,724 Bitcoin to its balance sheet this week.
#Bitcoin treasury firm ProCap acquired 3,724 Bitcoin currently worth about $395 million on Tuesday, just one day after announcing its plans to go public in a $1 billion SPAC deal.
Founded by investor and cryptocurrency personality Anthony Pompliano, ProCap purchased the Bitcoin this week at a time-weighted average price of $103,785 per token, according to the firm’s statement.
"We believe bitcoin is the new hurdle rate," Pompliano wrote in an X post addressing the announcement. "If you can’t beat it, you have to buy it."
Bitcoin was recently trading at about $106,000 up 2.1% in the past 24 hours, according to data provider CoinGecko.
The purchase follows
#ProCap’s announcement on Monday that it closed a $750 million raise. The funds, which will go toward helping the company merge with blank-check firm Columbus
#Circle Capital to become ProCap Financial— a new publicly traded company.
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