BitMine Immersion Technologies, a Bitcoin miner, has priced a $250 million private placement to acquire and stake ether, appointing Tom Lee as chairman.
Tom Lee sees potential in Ethereum due to the explosive growth of stablecoins settling on the network, aiming for strategic advantages in staking Ether.
The private placement syndicate includes prominent names from traditional finance and crypto, with plans to immediately deploy ETH into staking for yield-bearing assets.
BitMine's move mirrors MicroStrategy's Bitcoin strategy, betting on the appreciation of a scarce digital asset at the core of global finance.