{"id":93392,"date":"2026-05-18T17:46:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T17:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=93392"},"modified":"2026-05-18T17:46:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T17:46:44","slug":"michael-saylor-ups-bitcoin-holdings-to-4-of-supply-as-strategy-buys-for-2-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=93392","title":{"rendered":"Michael Saylor Ups Bitcoin Holdings To 4% Of Supply As Strategy Buys For $2 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Strategy Inc.<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/MSTR\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"MSTR\" data-exchange=\"NASDAQ\" rel=\"noopener\">(NASDAQ:<\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/MSTR\">MSTR<\/a>) purchased 24,869 <strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BTC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BTC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) for approximately $2.01 billion at an average price of $80,985 per coin last week, bringing total holdings to 843,738 BTC.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Strategy Now Holds Over 4% Of Bitcoin Supply<\/h3>\n<p>Strategy\u2019s total Bitcoin holdings now <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/saylor\/status\/2056349245913849969\">represent<\/a> more than 4% of Bitcoin\u2019s 21 million supply cap.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The company acquired all 843,738 BTC at an average price of $75,700 per coin for a total cost of around $63.9 billion, implying approximately $1.4 billion in paper gains at current prices.<\/p>\n<p>The latest acquisitions were funded through at-the-market sales of Class A common stock MSTR and perpetual preferred stock STRC.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Strategy sold 430,344 MSTR shares for approximately $83.7 million and 19,519,801 STRC shares for $1.95 billion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michael Saylor <\/strong>hinted at the purchase beforehand, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/saylor\/status\/2055992847241711997\">sharing<\/a> \u201cBig dot energy\u201d on Sunday, suggesting a substantial acquisition disclosure was coming.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">STRC Preferred Stock Driving Recent Purchases<\/h3>\n<p>STRC, a variable-rate cumulative preferred stock offering monthly &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/05\/52632513\/michael-saylor-ups-bitcoin-holdings-to-4-of-supply-as-strategy-buys-for-2-billion?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Michael\" saylor ups bitcoin holdings to of supply as strategy buys for billion>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strategy Inc. (NASDAQ:MSTR) purchased 24,869 Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) for approximately $2.01 billion at an average price of $80,985 per coin last week, bringing total holdings to 843,738 BTC. Strategy Now Holds Over 4% Of Bitcoin Supply Strategy\u2019s total Bitcoin holdings now represent more than 4% of Bitcoin\u2019s 21 million supply cap.\u00a0 The company acquired all [&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-93392","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\/93392","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=93392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}