{"id":64263,"date":"2025-05-05T13:39:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T13:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=64263"},"modified":"2025-05-05T13:39:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T13:39:35","slug":"strategy-buys-180-million-worth-of-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=64263","title":{"rendered":"Strategy Buys $180 Million Worth of Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/\">Bitcoin Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/news\/strategy-buys-180-million-worth-of-bitcoin\">Strategy Buys $180 Million Worth of Bitcoin<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>According to a Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategy.com\/press\/strategy-acquires-1895-btc-and-now-holds-555450-btc_05-05-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SEC filing<\/a>, Strategy purchased the bitcoin at an average price of $95,167 per coin between April 28 and May 4. The acquisition brings the company\u2019s total holdings to 555,450 BTC, acquired for approximately $38.08 billion at an average price of $68,550 per bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>The latest purchase was funded through a combination of common stock and preferred stock sales, with $128.5 million raised through <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/tags\/strategy\">Strategy\u2019s<\/a> common stock ATM program and $51.8 million through sales of STRK preferred shares. The transaction notably exhausts Strategy\u2019s previous $21 billion ATM offering launched last year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p>BREAKING:  STRATEGY BUYS ANOTHER 1895 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BITCOIN?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BITCOIN<\/a> FOR $180 MILLION <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0YDTUHK0M3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/0YDTUHK0M3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bitcoin Magazine (@BitcoinMagazine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BitcoinMagazine\/status\/1919361924585619621?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 5, 2025<\/a>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/tags\/strategy\">Strategy<\/a> announced plans to double its capital raising capacity, introducing a new $21 billion ATM offering and expanding its debt purchase program to $42 billion. The expanded programs signal the company\u2019s intent to continue its bitcoin accumulation strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Strategy remains the largest corporate holder of bitcoin, with its holdings representing approximately 2.64% of Bitcoin\u2019s maximum supply. At current prices around $94,000, the company\u2019s bitcoin stack is valued at over $52 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The purchase comes amid strong institutional demand for Bitcoin through regulated vehicles, with <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/tags\/blackrock\">BlackRock\u2019s<\/a> iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) recording massive inflows in the last 2 weeks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/tags\/strategy\">Strategy<\/a> shares were down 2.7% in Monday\u2019s pre-market trading after gaining over 3% last Thursday. Bitcoin currently trades at $94,497, down 1.14% over the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>This post <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/news\/strategy-buys-180-million-worth-of-bitcoin\">Strategy Buys $180 Million Worth of Bitcoin<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/\">Bitcoin Magazine<\/a> and is written by <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/authors\/vivek-sen-bitcoin\">Vivek Sen<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin Magazine Strategy Buys $180 Million Worth of Bitcoin According to a Monday SEC filing, Strategy purchased the bitcoin at an average price of $95,167 per coin between April 28 and May 4. The acquisition brings the company\u2019s total holdings to 555,450 BTC, acquired for approximately $38.08 billion at an average price of $68,550 per [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":64264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64263","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\/64263"}],"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=64263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}