PANews reported on August 25th that Bitmine, a publicly listed US company, announced that its cryptocurrency and cash holdings exceeded $8.82 billion. As of 5:30 PM ET on August 24th, the company's cryptocurrency holdings included 1,713,899 ETH, 192 BTC, and $562 million in unspent cash. BitMine disclosed that its cryptocurrency and cash holdings increased by $2.2 billion over the past week, reaching $8.8 billion (an increase of over 190,500 ETH, from 1.52 million to 1.71 million ETH).