On Friday, Rumble $RUM made its first ever purchase of Bitcoin $BTC.
It won’t be the last.
— Chris Pavlovski 🏴☠️ (@chrispavlovski) January 20, 2025
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Video platform Rumble on Monday announced its first Bitcoin buy, less than two months after revealing a strategy to put the cryptocurrency on its balance sheet.
Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovski wrote on X (formerly Twitter) that the company bought its first Bitcoin on Friday.
It isn’t clear how much Bitcoin that Rumble bought, but the company said in November that it would allocate up to $20 million of its cash reserves into the asset. Decrypt inquired with Rumble but did not receive an immediate response.
On Friday, Rumble $RUM made its first ever purchase of Bitcoin $BTC.
It won’t be the last.
— Chris Pavlovski 🏴☠️ (@chrispavlovski) January 20, 2025
“It won’t be the last,” Pavolvski wrote about the Friday buy.
Rumble is a Canadian company that allows users to post videos. A rival to YouTube, it trades on the Nasdaq (NASDAQ: RUM) and prides itself on supporting free speech. The platform is popular with American conservatives.
Back in November, Pavolvski said that the world was “still in the early stages of the adoption of Bitcoin.”
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Edited by Andrew Hayward
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