{"id":167201,"date":"2026-05-18T12:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T12:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=167201"},"modified":"2026-05-18T12:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T12:41:08","slug":"strategy-mstr-spends-a-massive-2-billion-on-more-bitcoin-lifts-holdings-to-843738-btc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=167201","title":{"rendered":"Strategy (MSTR) Spends A Massive $2 Billion on More Bitcoin, Lifts Holdings to 843,738 BTC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bitcoin Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n

Strategy (MSTR) Spends A Massive $2 Billion on More Bitcoin, Lifts Holdings to 843,738 BTC<\/a><\/p>\n

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Strategy announced<\/a> Monday it has acquired an additional 24,869 bitcoin for approximately $2.01 billion, averaging roughly $80,985 per coin, pushing the firm\u2019s total holdings to 843,738 BTC \u2014 cementing its standing as the world\u2019s largest corporate bitcoin treasury by a wide margin.<\/p>\n

The disclosure came via a Form 8-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, continuing the company\u2019s practice of Monday morning acquisition announcements. The purchase marks a significant acceleration from Strategy\u2019s most recent disclosed buy \u2014 535 BTC for $43 million during the week of May 5\u201311 \u2014 which had raised questions<\/a> among investors about whether the firm was pulling back on its aggressive accumulation pace.<\/p>\n

With this latest tranche, Strategy has now acquired a cumulative 843,738 BTC at an aggregate cost of approximately $63.87 billion, translating to an average price of roughly $75,700 per bitcoin. The company has also recorded a BTC Yield of 12.6% year-to-date in 2026 \u2014 a proprietary metric that tracks bitcoin accumulation per diluted share and serves as Strategy\u2019s primary benchmark for measuring the accretive value of its capital markets activity for shareholders.<\/p>\n

The purchase arrives against a backdrop of renewed investor attention on Strategy\u2019s financing mix. The company has relied heavily on its Variable Rate Series A Perpetual Stretch Preferred Stock \u2014 ticker STRC<\/a> \u2014 alongside its MSTR at-the-market equity offering program to fund acquisitions. STRC, which offers an annualized dividend of approximately 11.5%, has grown into a multi-billion dollar preferred equity product and has become an increasingly important pillar of Strategy\u2019s bitcoin-buying engine.<\/p>\n

Strategy didn\u2019t sell any bitcoin<\/h2>\n

Saylor had telegraphed that a sizeable announcement was coming, updating Strategy\u2019s bitcoin acquisition tracker on Sunday and teasing<\/a> \u201cbig dot energy,\u201d a nod to the large new marker that would soon appear on the company\u2019s now-famous chart of cumulative BTC purchases.<\/p>\n

The latest acquisition arrives weeks after executive chairman Michael Saylor and CEO Phong Le acknowledged on the company\u2019s Q1 2026 earnings call that Strategy could, under select circumstances, sell a portion of its bitcoin to fund STRC dividends or manage tax obligations \u2014 the first time leadership had left the door open to any sales.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Saylor subsequently walked back the concern, stating the company would buy between 10 and 20 bitcoin for every coin it ever sold.<\/p>\n

At bitcoin\u2019s current trading price near $80,000, Strategy\u2019s 843,738-coin treasury carries a market value north of $67 billion, representing one of the most concentrated single-asset corporate balance sheets in financial history.<\/p>\n

On Friday, Strategy also moved<\/a> to retire $1.5 billion in face value of its zero-coupon 2029 convertible notes for roughly $1.38 billion, effectively buying back the debt at about 92 cents on the dollar and signaling a willingness to use its balance sheet more aggressively, including the possibility of funding the transaction with bitcoin sales despite Saylor\u2019s recent emphasis on remaining a \u201cnet accumulator\u201d of the asset.<\/p>\n

This post Strategy (MSTR) Spends A Massive $2 Billion on More Bitcoin, Lifts Holdings to 843,738 BTC<\/a> first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine<\/a> and is written by Micah Zimmerman<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bitcoin Magazine Strategy (MSTR) Spends A Massive $2 Billion on More Bitcoin, Lifts Holdings to 843,738 BTC Strategy announced Monday it has acquired an additional 24,869 bitcoin for approximately $2.01 billion, averaging roughly $80,985 per coin, pushing the firm\u2019s total holdings to 843,738 BTC \u2014 cementing its standing as the world\u2019s largest corporate bitcoin treasury […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":167202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167201","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\/167201"}],"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=167201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/167202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}