The new buy in the obligations firm today brings its whole bitcoin holdings to about 5 percent of its cash and cash equivalents. Averaging from the 3,318 bitcoins Square states it bought would suggest an average cost of approximately $51,235 each bitcoin ( BTC-USD). The cryptocurrency had dipped under $48,000 on Tuesday in the right time of Square’s statement.

‘Aligned with all the organization’s function, Square considers that cryptocurrency is a tool of financial empowerment, giving a means for people to take part in a international financial system and protected their own financial potential,’ the organization wrote in an press launch before its earnings call. ‘The expense is part of Square’s continuing commitment to bitcoin, along with the business intends to evaluate its aggregate investment from bitcoin comparative to the additional investments on a continuous foundation’

At the moment, the cost equates to approximately 1 percent of the organization’s cash and cash equivalents.

By comparison, Tesla’s $1.5 million purchase of bitcoin accounted for approximately 8 percent of Tesla’s money equivalents as it had been declared earlier in February. That place had swelled by roughly $1 billion if bitcoin jumped past $58,000 to reach on a new all-time large prior to the cryptocurrency dropped back this week down to approximately $48,000. The weekend, Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted the the purchase price of bitcoin appeared,’high’

Business intelligence software firm MicroStrategy was the very first publicly traded firm to add bitcoin into its balance sheet this past year. Its CEO Michael Saylor advised Yahoo Finance before this month which other companies were planning to trace Tesla along with Square in adding bitcoin to its money holdings. He left his forecast soon after carrying a digital convention with roughly 1,000 business leaders just before his firm filed to increase over $500 million to buy additional bitcoin. Saylor was fast to shoot to Twitter to observe Jack Dorsey top Square to double back on bitcoin at a Tuesday tweet.

Square announced today it has bought ~3,318 bitcoins in an aggregate cost of about $170 million.

Square stocks dropped by about 5 percent from after-hours trading following reporting combined effects . Bitcoin was little altered following Square’s statement, flying about $48,000.