KindlyMD, Inc. (NASDAQ: NAKA) and Bitcoin-native holding firm Nakamoto Holdings Inc. have formally accomplished their long-anticipated merger, forming a publicly traded Bitcoin treasury car with ambitions to amass a million BTC. The mixed entity will function beneath the KindlyMD identify, buying and selling on the Nasdaq Capital Market, whereas Nakamoto will operate as a completely owned subsidiary overseeing the Bitcoin monetary providers division.
“Our imaginative and prescient is for the world’s capital markets to function on a Bitcoin commonplace. Right now’s merger represents the start of that journey for our firm,” mentioned David Bailey, CEO of the mixed firm. “Since I began my journey in Bitcoin 13 years in the past, I’ve all the time believed Bitcoin would turn into essentially the most worthwhile asset in human historical past, held by each particular person, firm, and authorities. The securitization of Bitcoin has proven us how establishments will undertake it. We intend to drive that ahead.”
Tim Pickett, former KindlyMD CEO and now Chief Medical Officer, added: “We’re thrilled to formally shut our merger with Nakamoto. We’ve constructed KindlyMD on operational and modern excellence, and we are actually extending that very same precept to our capital technique. Bitcoin provides us the flexibility to protect worth with the identical integrity we apply to delivering care.”
The transaction generated roughly $540 million in gross proceeds via a non-public placement in public fairness (PIPE) financing, which will probably be used primarily for Bitcoin purchases. A $200 million convertible observe providing is anticipated to shut tomorrow.
Bailey will lead as CEO and Chairman of the Board, with a strengthened management workforce together with Amanda Fabiano as COO, Tyler Evans as CIO, and Andrew Creighton as CCO. Newly appointed impartial administrators embody Charles Blackburn, Perianne Boring, Eric Weiss, Greg Xethalis, and Mark Yusko, alongside Pickett.
The merged firm’s mission is evident: construct a premier, institutional-grade Bitcoin treasury car to drive company and authorities adoption of the asset. By leveraging superior company finance methods, Nakamoto goals to simplify Bitcoin integration into world capital markets and place itself as a pacesetter in public market Bitcoin treasury administration.
Bailey bolstered his dedication on X, stating: “Honored to formally be part of KindlyMD as CEO and Chairman. Thanks for approaching this journey with me — collectively we’ll rebuild the world on the bitcoin commonplace. One Nakamoto = A million Bitcoin.”
Disclosure: Nakamoto is in partnership with Bitcoin Journal’s mum or dad firm BTC Inc to construct the primary world community of Bitcoin treasury corporations, the place BTC Inc supplies sure advertising providers to Nakamoto. Extra info on this may be discovered right here.
