SpaceX Heads Into Historic IPO With a $1.45 Billion Bitcoin Treasury on Its Books
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SpaceX has filed for a historic IPO, revealing it holds 18,712 BTC worth about $1.45 billion, positioning it among the largest corporate Bitcoin holders as it prepares to list on Nasdaq.
Key facts
The Elon Musk-led aerospace company holds 18,712 BTC, valued at approximately $1.45 billion, according to the S-1
With a cost basis of $35,000 per coin and Bitcoin now trading above $77,000, SpaceX is sitting on paper gains of roughly $789 million
The company has since trimmed its holdings, Arkham Intelligence tracked the stash as low as 6,095 BTC last year, before the S-1 confirmed a far larger position of 18,712 coins held as of December 31
When SpaceX lists, it will join Tesla on the short roster of public companies that treat Bitcoin as a balance-sheet asset, a cohort still dominated by Strategy Inc
Summary
SpaceX filed its long-awaited S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission Wednesday, and it is bringing a substantial Bitcoin position into the public markets. The Elon Musk-led aerospace company holds 18,712 BTC, valued at approximately $1.45 billion, according to the S-1. That stake makes SpaceX the seventh-largest known corporate Bitcoin holder in the world, ahead of Coinbase. SpaceX’s Bitcoin journey dates to 2021, when Musk added the cryptocurrency to the company’s financial assets around the same time Tesla made its own $1.5 billion purchase.