Corporate Buying Stirs Debate Over Bitcoin’s Long-term...

Corporations have quietly amassed nearly 7% of the Bitcoin supply, as analysts note a growing institutional influence on the crypto market’s liquidity.

Corporate Bitcoin holdings continue to climb, but treasury executives argue the trend is strengthening, not weakening, decentralization across the network.

Despite increasing concerns about concentrated Bitcoin (BTC) ownership, emerging corporate treasury firms and new institutional players are contributing to broader distribution across the ecosystem, according to several executives speaking at Bitcoin Amsterdam 2025.

“At the end of the day, what we are doing is really decentralizing Bitcoin. It doesn’t seem like that, but it is the case through the demand that we provide in the market,” said Alexander Laizet, board director of Bitcoin strategy at Capital B.

Laizet said more banks offering Bitcoin custody options are giving individuals and corporations new avenues for storage and reducing single-point dependence on a small set of custodians.

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Corporations and Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are quietly amassing the Bitcoin supply, increasingly centralizing the distribution of the world’s first cryptocurrency.

Corporate participants have already amassed 6.7% of the total Bitcoin supply, including 4.73% through public companies and 2.03% through private companies, according to treasury data provider bitbo.io

Spot Bitcoin ETFs have also accumulated nearly 7.3% of the Bitcoin supply, becoming the largest segment of holders in less than two years since their debut in January 2024.

The growing centralized holdings are not an “immediate threat” for Bitcoin, as its “economic ownership is still spread across many underlying investors — not a single actor,” Nicolai Sondergaard, research analyst at crypto intelligence platform Nansen, told Cointelegraph.

Source: CoinTelegraph