MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor announced his company's third bitcoin purchase on Twitter Friday evening, per Securities and Exchange Commission filings the same day.
Saylor purchased 2,574 bitcoins for $50 million in cash, bringing the business intelligence company's treasury holdings to approximately 40,824 bitcoins.
MicroStrategy first bought $250 million in bitcoinBTC$77.389,41 on Aug. 11. followed by an additional $175 million worth of BTC one month later.
Saylor said the latest purchase is part of MicroStrategy's treasury reserve policy of eschewing inflation-prone cash for bitcoin. The 55-year-old executive heralds bitcoin as the "most rational" vessel for value storage anywhere in the world.
MSTR shares have soared 170% since Saylor first hinted the firm's interest in BTC in late July 2020. Some now call the company a de-facto bitcoin exchange-traded fund – albeit an inefficient one.
Leading U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase brokered MicroStrategy's original bitcoin purchases, as CoinDesk previously reported.
Investors turn to HYPE and XRP funds while dumping bitcoin and ether ETFs.
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Investors yanked over $1 billion from bitcoin ETFs last week and over $215 million from ether funds, signaling waning appetite for broad large-cap crypto exposure.
Instead, the capital is rotating into select altcoins, with new HYPE spot products drawing about $72 million and XRP and SOL ETFs attracting $22 million...