{"id":52614,"date":"2025-10-13T17:01:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T17:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=52614"},"modified":"2025-10-13T17:01:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T17:01:56","slug":"strategy-bought-27m-in-bitcoin-at-123k-before-crypto-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=52614","title":{"rendered":"Strategy Bought $27M in Bitcoin at $123K Before Crypto Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Strategy (MSTR), the world&#8217;s largest corporate owner of bitcoin (BTC), appeared to miss out on capitalizing on last week&#8217;s market rout to purchase the dip in prices.<\/p>\n<p>According to Monday&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategy.com\/press\/strategy-acquires-220-btc-and-now-holds-640250-btc_10-13-2025\">press release<\/a>, the firm bought 220 BTC at an average price of $123,561. The company used the proceeds of selling its various preferred stocks (STRF, STRK, STRD), raising $27.3 million. <\/p>\n<p>That purchase price was well above the prices the largest crypto changed hands in the second half of the week. Bitcoin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2025\/10\/10\/bitcoin-crashes-below-usd110k-cryptos-in-freefall-on-further-trump-tariff-on-china\">nosedived<\/a> from above $123,000 on Thursday to as low as $103,000 on late Friday during one, if not the worst crypto flash crash on record, liquidating over $19 billion in leveraged positions. <\/p>\n<p>That move occurred as Trump said to impose a 100% increase in tariffs against Chinese goods as a retaliation for tightening rare earth metal exports, reigniting fears of a trade war between the two world powers.<\/p>\n<p>At its lowest point on Friday, BTC traded nearly 16% lower than the average of Strategy&#8217;s recent purchase price. Even during the swift rebound over the weekend, the firm could have bought tokens between $110,000 and $115,000, at a 7%-10% discount compared to what it paid for.<\/p>\n<p>With the latest purchase, the firm brought its total holdings to 640,250 BTC, at an average acquisition price of $73,000 since starting its bitcoin treasury plan in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>MSTR, the firm&#8217;s common stock, was up 2.5% on Monday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strategy (MSTR), the world&#8217;s largest corporate owner of bitcoin (BTC), appeared to miss out on capitalizing on last week&#8217;s market rout to purchase the dip in prices. According to Monday&#8217;s press release, the firm bought 220 BTC at an average price of $123,561. The company used the proceeds of selling its various preferred stocks (STRF, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-52614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}