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Strategy Now Holds $65 Billion in Bitcoin—These Are Its Biggest BTC Picks up
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Software firm turned Bitcoin treasury company Strategy has been buying BTC for more than five years, pioneering the growing trend of publicly traded firms that are adding cryptocurrencies to their balance sheets.
Key facts
- MicroStrategy has acquired 55,500 BTC for ~$5.4 billion at ~$97,862 per and has achieved BTC Yield of 35.2% QTD and 59.3% YTD
- In the hours after the Saylor announcement, Bitcoin dropped by about $4,000 to under $94,000, a 4% decrease from the average price paid by Strategy
- Along the way, Strategy has accumulated 843,738 BTC, or roughly 4% of the fixed 21 million total Bitcoin supply—a stash worth nearly $65 billion at today’s Bitcoin price above $76,500
- Strategy leaned on its preferred stock offering—STRC—to help snatch up nearly 25,000 Bitcoin valued at more than $2.01 billion in May 2026
Summary
What started as a way to "maximize long-term value for shareholders” has transformed into an industry-shifting paradigm that has been further fueled by greater entwinement of traditional financial markets and crypto. Along the way, Strategy has accumulated 843,738 BTC, or roughly 4% of the fixed 21 million total Bitcoin supply—a stash worth nearly $65 billion at today’s Bitcoin price above $76,500. Regardless of how high Bitcoin’s price goes, though, Strategy co-founder and Executive Chairman Michael Saylor has committed to “buying the top forever,” pulling up the firm's average entry price to over $75,700 per Bitcoin—over seven times the average cost of the firm’s first Bitcoin purchase.