South Korea's NPS Expands BTC Exposure with MicroStrategy Shares
South Korea’s NPS, the world's third-largest pension fund by assets, made a strategic investment by purchasing $33.7 million worth of MicroStrategy shares.
NPS acquired 24,500 shares of MicroStrategy Inc., building on its previous investment in Coinbase.
As of the end of June 2024, NPS held 229,807 shares of Coinbase Global Inc., valued at approximately $51 million.
MicroStrategy is the largest corporate holder of bitcoin, with 226,500 BTC in its reserves, valued at around $13.2 billion.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently approved the first leveraged exchange-traded fund (ETF) targeting MicroStrategy.