Crypto Exchange Coinbase (COIN) Is Buying BTC
Coinbase (COIN) has its own strategy for BTC on the corporate balance sheet, but it’s not a bitcoin maximalist play like that of Michael Saylor’s Strategy (MSTR).
On the company’s first quarter 2025 earnings call, CFO Alesia Haas revealed that Coinbase purchased $150 million in crypto, “predominantly bitcoin,” bringing its long-term investment portfolio to $1.3 billion, or 25% of net cash.
Haas, however, went out of her way to draw a line between Coinbase and firms that explicitly tie their corporate identity to holding bitcoin on the balance sheet.
“To be clear, we’re an operating company,” she said. “But we do invest alongside the space.”
In other words, Coinbase isn’t betting the company on bitcoin. On a Q&A call with…
