- Aifinyo has confirmed it will become Germany’s first dedicated Bitcoin treasury company, with plans to systematically accumulate 10,000 BTC by 2027.
- The company says its approach differs from speculation, with every customer invoice generating Bitcoin for shareholders through systematic accumulation.
- Germany lags internationally in corporate Bitcoin adoption, without a single company in the top ten and only Bitcoin Group SE ranking 27th.
- Germany’s 2024 decision to sell all seized Bitcoin holdings drew widespread criticism from the Bitcoin community.
Michael Saylor’s idea is catching on. Germany’s Handelsblatt reports that aifinyo – a local fintech startup – will be following MicroStrategy’s (MSTR) playbook. The company reportedly plans to buy up to 10,000 Bitcoin (BTC) by 2027.
In a tweet, the company confirmed that it would become the first German Bitcoin treasury company with a €3 million (AU$5.36 million) Bitcoin purchase.
Aifinyo will use cash reserves and lean on “business accounts and credit cards” to complete the full purchase by 2027.
Co-founder and chairman Stefan Kempf explained that they’re “building Germany’s first corporate Bitcoin machine.”
Every invoice that Aifinyo’s customers pay will now generate Bitcoin for shareholders. No speculation, no market timing – just systematic accumulation of a deflationary asset.
Stefan Kempf, aifinyo co-founder and chairmanBeing the first German company to buy BTC for its treasury shows how far the country lags behind internationally. Among public companies – which together hold about 4.6% of all BTC – only one German firm is in the top 30.
Bitcoin Group SE currently ranks as the 27th-largest public company holding Bitcoin. According to the latest data from BitcoinTreasuries, it holds around 3,605 Bitcoin, though it hasn’t explicitly labelled itself as a “Bitcoin treasury firm”.
Bitcoin Group SE (ADE.DE) is a German financial and crypto-services holding company that runs Bitcoin.de, one of Europe’s major Bitcoin trading platforms, and futurum bank AG, the country’s first regulated crypto bank.
Aifinyo’s planned 10,000 BTC would place it just behind Tesla and Hut 8, which hold 11,509 and 10,667 Bitcoin respectively. The top ten public BTC holders are largely made up of US firms, led by Saylor’s MSTR. Japanese Metaplanet is the only non-US public company in the top ten.
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The largest group of holders are the spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs), which currently HODL about 7.3% of the total Bitcoin supply.
Again, the US dominates here, with seven out of ten funds being US-based. CoinShares’ Swiss ETF is in fourth place, while Canada’s Purpose Bitcoin ETF and 3iQ The Bitcoin Fund rank eighth and tenth. German ETFs ETC Group Bitcoin ETP and Bitwise Physical Bitcoin ETP follow in 11th and 12th place.
Oh Nein – Why Did Germany Sell Its Bitcoin?
Germany made headlines in 2024 when it sold all its Bitcoin – a move widely criticised by the Bitcoin community.
It wasn’t the federal government selling Bitcoin though, but the state of Saxony. The coins came from a criminal case when Saxony’s police seized about 50,000 BTC (worth roughly US$3 billion or AU$4.6 billion) from the operator of Movie2k.to.
With the seized assets under its control, Saxony moved thousands of BTC to exchanges like Kraken and Coinbase to sell them, cutting its holdings to zero by August 2024.
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