London BTC Company Ltd (LSE:BTC, OTCQB:VINZF) told investors it has staked its first US gold project, marking the first move under a planned strategy to build hard-asset gold exposure alongside its Bitcoin treasury and mining operations. The company has secured 111 mineral claims at the Huntington-Whitman Gold-Silver Project in Humboldt County, Nevada, through its wholly owned US subsidiary Tethered Gold LLC.