---
title: hold
description: Comprehensive guides to holding Bitcoin and Ethereum by public companies.
  Details on visualizing the hold data and exporting it to your preferred data format
  (csv, json, xlsx). Source references to CoinGecko. Includes links to source codes.
keywords:
- cryptocurrency
- bitcoin
- ethereum
- public companies
- data visualization
- CoinGecko
- bar graph
- dataframe
- openbb.crypto.ov.hold
- openbb.crypto.ov.hold_chart
- csv
- json
- xlsx
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Returns public companies that holds ethereum or bitcoin [Source: CoinGecko]

Source Code: [[link](https://github.com/OpenBB-finance/OpenBBTerminal/tree/main/openbb_terminal/cryptocurrency/overview/pycoingecko_model.py#L102)]

```python
openbb.crypto.ov.hold(endpoint: str = "bitcoin")
```

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## Parameters

| Name | Type | Description | Default | Optional |
| ---- | ---- | ----------- | ------- | -------- |
| endpoint | str | "bitcoin" or "ethereum" | bitcoin | True |


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## Returns

| Type | Description |
| ---- | ----------- |
| List[Union[str, pd.DataFrame]] | - str:              Overall statistics<br/>- pd.DataFrame: Companies holding crypto |
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Shows overview of public companies that holds ethereum or bitcoin. [Source: CoinGecko]

Source Code: [[link](https://github.com/OpenBB-finance/OpenBBTerminal/tree/main/openbb_terminal/cryptocurrency/overview/pycoingecko_view.py#L135)]

```python
openbb.crypto.ov.hold_chart(symbol: str, show_bar: bool = False, export: str = "", limit: int = 15)
```

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## Parameters

| Name | Type | Description | Default | Optional |
| ---- | ---- | ----------- | ------- | -------- |
| symbol | str | Cryptocurrency: ethereum or bitcoin | None | False |
| show_bar | bool | Whether to show a bar graph for the data | False | True |
| export | str | Export dataframe data to csv,json,xlsx |  | True |
| limit | int | The number of rows to show | 15 | True |


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## Returns

This function does not return anything

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