
{"id":166091,"date":"2026-05-15T11:00:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T11:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=166091"},"modified":"2026-05-15T11:00:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T11:00:38","slug":"strategys-main-bitcoin-acquisition-vehicle-sees-massive-1-5b-trading-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=166091","title":{"rendered":"Strategy\u2019s Main Bitcoin Acquisition Vehicle Sees Massive $1.5B Trading Explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Strategy now holds 818,869 Bitcoin, worth roughly $66 billion at current prices \u2014 a position that has become the largest corporate Bitcoin reserve anywhere in the world. That stockpile keeps growing, and the instrument fueling much of the buying just broke a record.<\/p>\n<h2>A New Kind Of Funding Tool<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategy.com\/strc\/learn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">STRC<\/a>, the company\u2019s Variable Rate Series A Perpetual Stretch Preferred Stock, recorded $1.53 billion in trading volume on Thursday \u2014 the highest single-day figure it has ever posted.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman Michael Saylor announced the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/saylor\/status\/2055057975379648515\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">milestone<\/a> on social media, calling it an all-time high in liquidity. The preferred stock, known informally as Stretch, has become Strategy\u2019s go-to method for raising money to buy Bitcoin in 2026, stepping in as other funding channels have grown harder to access.<\/p>\n<p>Senior convertible notes and at-the-market equity offerings have both tightened over the past year, pushing the company toward preferred stock as its primary capital source.<\/p>\n<p>All-time high volume. $1.53B of liquidity. Two cents of volatility. Closed at par. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24STRC&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$STRC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aS0dSlkm7d\">pic.twitter.com\/aS0dSlkm7d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Saylor (@saylor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/saylor\/status\/2055057975379648515?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 14, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>Stretch works by paying investors an 11.5% dividend without touching the company\u2019s common shares. That structure keeps existing shareholders from being diluted while still bringing in fresh capital.<\/p>\n<p>Based on data from the STRC.live tracker, Thursday\u2019s trading performance could allow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Strategy<\/a> to raise an estimated $735 million \u2014 enough, in theory, to acquire around 9,066 Bitcoin. Whether the company will move forward with a purchase based on those funds remains unclear.<\/p>\n<h2>The Broader Bitcoin Buying Spree<\/h2>\n<p>Strategy\u2019s pace of acquisition has picked up sharply. The company has bought 56,770 Bitcoin since April and more than 101,000 since March, bouncing back after a slow February.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin\u2019s own price movement has helped the math: the recent rally to around $81,000 pushed above Strategy\u2019s average purchase price of $75,543, putting its holdings up 7%.<\/p>\n<p>During a first-quarter earnings call on May 5, Saylor said he wants Stretch to become the largest credit instrument in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Reports indicate the company posted a $1.25 billion net loss in Q1 as Bitcoin fell during that period, though the situation has since shifted with the price recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Strategy is not alone in using this type of structure. Strive announced Thursday that holders of its own preferred stock, SATA, would begin receiving daily dividends starting June 16 \u2014 a faster payout schedule than the monthly distributions Stretch offers.<\/p>\n<p>Tokyo-based <a href=\"https:\/\/metaplanet.jp\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Metaplanet<\/a> has also raised funds through preferred stock instruments called MARS and MERCURY to buy Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>A Crowded Field With One Giant<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 200 public companies now hold Bitcoin on their balance sheets. Strategy remains far ahead of all of them. Its 818,869-coin position dwarfs every other corporate holder, and the company shows no signs of slowing the accumulation. Preferred stock, for now, is the engine making that possible.<\/p>\n<p><em>Featured image from Free3D, chart from TradingView<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strategy now holds 818,869 Bitcoin, worth roughly $66 billion at current prices \u2014 a position that has become the largest corporate Bitcoin reserve anywhere in the world. That stockpile keeps growing, and the instrument fueling much of the buying just broke a record. A New Kind Of Funding Tool STRC, the company\u2019s Variable Rate Series [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":166092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166091"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/166092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}