RE: Read RNS / Fau RNS!1 Feb 2026 10:48
SMALL CAP MOVERS: London BTC launches gold hedging strategy
There are few storytellers and yarn spinners as deft as the small cap market's perennial dealmakers.
For every cycle, trend and fad, some closely followed execs tend to find an angle for the small cap investment audience.
So it is then, that as gold smashes through $5,000 an ounce and Bitcoin remains 'off the boil', that David Lenigas presents an opportunity and a hedge for shareholders in his vehicle the London BTC Company.
London BTC #BTC on Friday announced it had picked up options over gold tenements in Western Australia, giving it a chance to acquire acreage hosting the historic Chance gold mine.
At the same time, the small cap firm (valued at around £9.5 million currently) said it would potentially also set up a special purpose vehicle in the US to acquire gold resource assets there too, alongside possible expansions to bitcoin mining operations.
'We like Bitcoin and we like gold, and by linking the two we feel we could create a very exciting platform for growth,' Lenigas explained cogently via RNS.
With an eye to future dealmaking, Lenigas added: 'Great gold tenements can be run up the value curve and either developed or sold, and these funds could be used to make us bigger in Bitcoin much quicker.'
Evidently, investors following the shares may not have been massively wowed, partly because a move like this had been flagged in November.
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