Strategy (MSTR) acquired 855 bitcoin ahead of last week’s market crash

Share This Post

Strategy (MSTR) continued its weekly bitcoin purchases, though last week’s acquisition was relatively small.

Led by executive chairman Michael Saylor, the company purchased 855 bitcoin for $75.3 million, or an average price of $87,974 each. The purchases were funded via the sale of common stock, according to a Monday morning filing.

The buys were relatively small for the company, which has routinely (but not always) acquired hundreds of millions, or even billions, of bitcoin each week over the past several months.

Strategy’s total holdings now stand at 713,502 bitcoin, acquired for approximately $54.26 billion, or an average price of $76,052 each.

Following the tumble in price late last week that spilled over into the weekend, bitcoin is trading just above $77,000, putting the company just above breakeven after about 5.5 years of buying BTC.

MSTR shares are lower by 7.3% in premarket trading, to a new multi-year low of $138.80.

Read more: Michael Saylor’s bitcoin stack is officially underwater, but here’s why he likely won’t reach for the panic button

Related Posts

Coinbase does not fear competition from Wall Street, says exchange executive

Coinbase is not at all concerned with the increasing...

Crypto and the Fed: State of Crypto

The Federal Reserve published the latest version of its...

Former FTX Legal Advisor Fenwick & West Settles Lawsuit for $54M

Fenwick & West LLP, the principal law firm that...

Tom Lee’s Ethereum Portfolio Sits on $7.35B Loss as ETH Price Slumps

Tom Lee’s BitMine faces about $7.3 billion in paper...

A massive $1 trillion hidden market is waiting to be unlocked in bitcoin, says new report

Crypto lender Ledn says the consumer bitcoin-backed loan market...

StablR Stablecoins Exploited, EURR and USDR Depeg After Minting Key Compromise

Estimates of losses range from $2.8 million to $10...