Bitmine's Tom Lee calls ether 'the wartime store of value' as holdings hit 4.87 million tokens

Bitmine's Tom Lee calls ether 'the wartime store of value' as holdings hit 4.87 million tokens

Search/NewsVideoPricesResearchConsensus 2026Data & IndicesSponsoredSearch/enMarketsShareShare this articleCopy linkX iconX (Twitter)LinkedInFacebookEmailBitmine's Tom Lee calls ether 'the wartime store of value' as holdings hit 4.87 million tokensThe company now holds 4.04% of all ether in existence and currently earns $212 million in annualized revenue from staking.By Shaurya Malwa|Edited by Stephen AlpherUpdated Apr 13, 2026, 1:27 p.m. Published Apr 13, 2026, 1:19 p.m. Make preferred on What to know: Bitmine Immersion Technologies now holds 4.87 million ether worth $10.7 billion, putting it 81 percent of the way to its goal of owning 5 percent of all ETH and making it the largest corporate ether treasury in the world.Chairman Tom Lee called ether "the wartime store of value," noting that ETH has gained 17.4 percent since the Iran war began, sharply outperforming the S&P 500 and gold, a

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