Jetking Infotrain became India’s first publicly traded company to adopt Bitcoin (BTC) as a reserve asset for its treasury after purchasing 12 BTC on Dec. 9, according to the firm’s CEO Avinash Bharwani.

The company’s Bitcoin reserve is worth roughly $1.2 million, at $97,986.35 per BTC as of press time. According to Google Finance data, Jetking Infotrain’s market cap is nearly $4.5 million, which means the firm’s BTC stash represents over 26% of its size.

In an interview with Bitcoin proponent Max Keiser at the Bitcoin Conference MENA in Abu Dabhi, Bharwani stated that Jetking Infotrain’s treasury would mix equities and BTC to boost the company’s price in the long term.

He added:

“We are the first ones to do it, and we are kind of talking to the regulators to see how we can formalize it and make sure everything is within that spectrum.”

Jetking Infotrain was created in 1947 under the name of Jetking Electronics and offered trading of electronic goods in India, performing its initial public offering in 1986 on the Bombay Stock Exchange.

Livemint data reveals that the company’s profit for the first quarter was $366,520, followed by an operating income increase of nearly 39% over quarters and 36% yearly. 

The first publicly traded Indian company adding a Bitcoin reserve news comes on the same day MicroStrategy added more 21,550 BTC to its stash and Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms unveiled a plan to raise $500 millio

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Author: Gino Matos

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