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Story: $40 Million Bitcoin Investment Firm Orange Juice Launched by Lyn Alden and Jeff Booth

By Sakamoto Nashi

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Six Founders, a Mexican Billionaire Behind the Project. Orange Juice was founded by six individuals: Jeff Booth, Lyn Alden, Nico Lechuga, Andi Pitt,…

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A Bitcoin Treasury Market Under Pressure. The launch of Orange Juice comes at a challenging time for Bitcoin treasuries.

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Forty million dollars on the table. Lyn Alden, a macroeconomist closely followed by the crypto world, has launched Orange Juice — an investment holding company aiming to buy…

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The concept is simple to explain but rarely seen in practice. Orange Juice targets small and medium-sized enterprises, buys them at competitive prices, improves their operations,…

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Salinas is a significant name in the Bitcoin world. He recently increased his Bitcoin allocation to 70% of his personal portfolio. Not 10%, not 20%. Seventy percent.

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The group's structure differs from traditional private equity on a fundamental point: there are no fund cycles imposing strict deadlines to sell assets and distribute profits to…

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And that's probably the real competitive advantage of the model.

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The launch of Orange Juice comes at a challenging time for Bitcoin treasuries. The model — where a company holds Bitcoin as its main treasury asset — has faced serious setbacks…

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Result: the sector's image is somewhat tarnished. Too many companies adopted the Bitcoin treasury model as a financial communication tool rather than a true long-term strategy.

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Despite this, the number of digital asset treasuries continues to rise. According to BitcoinTreasuries.net, there are currently over 360, each holding various digital assets.

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It's a defensible bet. But not guaranteed.

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The difference between Orange Juice and a company like MicroStrategy, for example, is that MicroStrategy built its Bitcoin strategy on debt and capital raises, without…

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No details yet on which companies Orange Juice is primarily targeting, or in which sectors. The source also does not specify the timeline for the planned public offering.

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