Oslo stock exchange-listed Aker ASA has set up a new company dedicated to investing in bitcoin projects and companies.
- In an announcement Monday, the holding company focused on energy, construction and fishing said its new entity, Seetee AS, will keep all its liquid investable assets in bitcoin and will also enter the bitcoin mining industry.
- "First, we will use bitcoin as our treasury asset and join the community. In Bitcoin speak, we will be hodlers," Norwegian billionaire Kjell Inge Roekke, chairman and majority owner of Aker, said in a letter to shareholders.
- Seetee is launching with 500 million Norwegian Krone ($58.3 million) in capital.
- The new firm has already partnered with Canadaâs Blockstream for work on bitcoin mining and sidechain projects.
- "BitÂcoin may still go to zero. But it can also beÂcome the core of a new monÂeÂtary arÂchiÂtecÂture. If so, one bitÂcoin may be worth milÂlions of dollars," said Roekke.
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