Nasdaq announced after the close of trading on Friday Eastern Time that MicroStrategy, a well-known Bitcoin holding company and listed company, will be officially included in the Nasdaq 100 Index on December 23, which also led analysts to predict that MicroStrategy will usher in billions of dollars of passive investment in the future.
At the same time, Michael Saylor, co-founder and executive chairman of MicroStrategy, posted on the X platform that he expects Bitcoin mining company MARA (Marathon Digital Holdings) to be the next company to be included in the Nasdaq 100.
MARA added $1.1 billion worth of BTC last week
Looking back at recent developments, on December 10, Bitcoin mining company MARA announced that it had purchased 11,774 Bitcoins at an average price of $96,000 per Bitcoin, with a total transaction amount of up to $1.1 billion. For this large-scale purchase of Bitcoin, MARA adopted the financing method of Zero-Coupon Convertible Notes, which allows companies to issue debt without paying interest and can convert it into stocks in the future. Currently, MARA is the second largest listed company in the world in terms of Bitcoin holdings, with 40,435 BTC, second only to MicroStrategy.
