
{"id":52394,"date":"2025-03-17T12:48:54","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T12:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=52394"},"modified":"2025-03-17T12:48:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T12:48:54","slug":"running-out-of-steam-strategy-makes-its-smallest-btc-purchase-in-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=52394","title":{"rendered":"Running Out of Steam? Strategy Makes its Smallest BTC Purchase in Months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After months and months of accumulating massive portions of BTC, Strategy \u2013 the world\u2019s largest corporate holder of the biggest cryptocurrency, has now spent a more modest $10.7 million in its latest acquisition.<\/p>\n<p>By adding 130 BTC, the firm has now neared the 500,000 BTC target.<\/p>\n<p>Strategy has acquired 130 BTC for ~$10.7M at ~$82,981 per bitcoin and has achieved BTC Yield of 6.9% YTD 2025. As of 3\/16\/2025, we hodl 499,226 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24BTC&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$BTC<\/a> acquired for ~$33.1 billion at ~$66,360 per bitcoin. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24MSTR&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$MSTR<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24STRK&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$STRK<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8xRmR8vlIt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/8xRmR8vlIt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Saylor (@saylor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/saylor\/status\/1901606324447646170?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 17, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>The company, formerly known as MicroStrategy, now owns 499,226 BTC, which it purchased for approximately $33.1 billion at an average price of $66,360 per bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>The latest acquisition came at an average price of just under $83,000, which has been bitcoin\u2019s trading price for the past week or so, aside from brief fluctuations to below $80,000 and to $85,000 during the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The $10.7 million spent comes in stark contrast to many of the previous purchases completed by the company, which was founded by Michael Saylor. Recall that some of those instances were for <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/btc-price-keeps-dropping-despite-strategys-latest-2b-bitcoin-purchase\/\">multi-billion dollars<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More recently, Strategy <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/21-billion-to-buy-bitcoin-strategy-announces-preferred-stock-offering-to-fund-additional-btc-purchases\/\">outlined<\/a> a plan to allocate $21 billion in BTC over the next several years by raising funds through the sale of Series A Perpetual Strike Preferred Stock.<\/p>\n<p>Its stock experienced a substantial <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/strategy-stock-sinks-could-saylor-ignite-a-huge-bitcoin-selloff\/\">crash<\/a> in the past several weeks, alongside BTC\u2019s price, and it went down toward $230. However, it bounced off and closed on Friday at almost $300.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/running-out-of-steam-strategy-makes-its-smallest-btc-purchase-in-months\/\">Running Out of Steam? Strategy Makes its Smallest BTC Purchase in Months<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/\">CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After months and months of accumulating massive portions of BTC, Strategy \u2013 the world\u2019s largest corporate holder of the biggest cryptocurrency, has now spent a more modest $10.7 million in its latest acquisition. By adding 130 BTC, the firm has now neared the 500,000 BTC target. Strategy has acquired 130 BTC for ~$10.7M at ~$82,981 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":52395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52394","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\/52394"}],"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=52394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}