{"id":52193,"date":"2026-05-18T07:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T12:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/?p=52193"},"modified":"2026-05-18T07:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T12:41:14","slug":"strategy-spends-a-massive-2-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/news\/strategy-spends-a-massive-2-billion","title":{"rendered":"Strategy (MSTR) Spends A Massive $2 Billion on More Bitcoin, Lifts Holdings to 843,738 BTC"},"content":{"rendered":"
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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’s total holdings to 843,738 BTC \u2014 cementing its standing as the world’s largest corporate bitcoin treasury by a wide margin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The disclosure came via a Form 8-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, continuing the company’s practice of Monday morning acquisition announcements. The purchase marks a significant acceleration from Strategy’s 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\n\n\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’s primary benchmark for measuring the accretive value of its capital markets activity for shareholders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The purchase arrives against a backdrop of renewed investor attention on Strategy’s 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’s bitcoin-buying engine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

The latest acquisition arrives weeks after executive chairman Michael Saylor and CEO Phong Le acknowledged on the company’s 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\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\n\n\n

At bitcoin’s current trading price near $80,000, Strategy’s 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\n\n\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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Strategy said Monday it acquired an additional 24,869 bitcoin for approximately $2.01 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3817,"featured_media":50009,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4378],"tags":[4284,6492,5440,5935],"class_list":{"0":"post-52193","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-mstr","9":"tag-saylor","10":"tag-strategy","11":"tag-strc"},"author_data":{"id":3817,"name":"Micah Zimmerman","nicename":"micahzimmerman","avatar_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Micah_Zimmerman_Author_Image.jpg"},"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Michael-Saylors-Strategy-MSTR-Spends-2.13-Billion-to-Buy-22305-Bitcoin.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}