Block.one’s BTC Holdings Are Now Over Twice the Entire EOS Market Cap

With the recent nosedive in the price of EOS, it appears that Block.one now holds over twice the value of BTC than EOS, its own token, leaving some crypto proponents to question the blockchain company’s true intentions.

Block.one’s BTC Holdings Are Well Over $5 Billion

A 2019 report had articulated that Block.one “held as many as 140,000 Bitcoins”, which made it one of the largest bagholders at the time. However, the company’s co-founder and CEO, Brendan Blumer, had disclosed last December that their holdings are already “well beyond” 140,000 BTC. 

B1 is building products designed to leverage our #Bitcoin as more than just a store of value, and we have accumulated well beyond our previously announced 140,000 #BTC position. We are in internal testing and alpha stages. #EOS #EOSIO

— Brendan Blumer (@BrendanBlumer) December 17, 2020

In addition, he also shared that there are more ways to leverage their Bitcoin holdings beyond “just a store of value”, hence the reason for their continued accumulation of BTC, whose total amount they haven’t made public. But assuming they only hold the 140k, it would still add up to $5.34 billion at current prices, which is more than double EOS’s present market cap of $2.65+ billion.

This is partly caused by the recent resignation of CTO, Dan Larimer, one of the most iconic figures in crypto who was already dabbling in crypto since the days of Satoshi Nakamoto. According to Larimer, his departure was a bid to pursue other personal goals. His resignation, unfortunately, resulted in a drastic drop in EOS token price.

Is This Good or Bad for EOS?

The current price trend of the EOS token has become even less impressive in the past few days, hovering above the $2.5 region. However, Jeff Dorman, the CFA and CIO of Arca, made a different assessment, saying that Block.one’s token is looking like one of the best risk/reward investments.

https://twitter.com/jdorman81/status/1349801329149964288

His analysis further showed that buying EOS now simply translates to buying BTC at an amazing price of $18,771. Having a huge BTC stash will also inadvertently attract institutional-grade clients to the platform. He, however, added that both Blumer and Larimer have done nothing to improve community member’s confidence in the project, adding that they need to do better or “expect huge lawsuits”.

EOS was nothing more than a #bitcoin heist.

— Peter McCormack ☠️ (@PeterMcCormack) January 12, 2021

On the flip side, popular Bitcoin podcaster Peter McCormack had a different opinion, implying that EOS was merely a scheme to accumulate Bitcoin.

At the time of writing, the price is EOS is down 10.75% over the past week.