{"id":4549,"date":"2026-04-21T15:16:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T15:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tradertideinsights.com\/?p=4549"},"modified":"2026-04-21T15:16:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T15:16:28","slug":"strategy-surpasses-800k-btc-as-2-5b-bitcoin-buying-spree-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tradertideinsights.com\/?p=4549","title":{"rendered":"Strategy Surpasses 800K BTC as $2.5B Bitcoin Buying Spree Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Like a few others, Strategy&#8217;s most recent purchase has been mostly funded via Stretch (STRC), the firm&#8217;s perpetual preferred security.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Strategy purchased 34,164 Bitcoin for $2.54 billion between April 13 and 19, according to an 8-K filing the business made with the US SEC\u00a0on Monday.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Michael Saylor&#8217;s Strategy, the largest public Bitcoin holder globally, has increased its overall holdings to more than 800,000 BTC via recent buys.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Strategy has acquired 34,164 BTC for ~$2.54 billion at ~$74,395 per bitcoin and has achieved BTC Yield of 9.5% YTD 2026. As of 4\/19\/2026, we hodl 815,061 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24BTC&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow noopener\">$BTC<\/a> acquired for ~$61.56 billion at ~$75,527 per bitcoin. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24MSTR&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow noopener\">$MSTR<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24STRC&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow noopener\">$STRC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ifGXjMeIZH\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/ifGXjMeIZH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Michael Saylor (@saylor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/saylor\/status\/2046197791228068167?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow noopener\">April 20, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-massive-accumulation\">Massive Accumulation<\/h3>\n<p>Strategy purchased 34,164 Bitcoin for $2.54 billion between April 13 and 19, according to an 8-K filing the business made with the US SEC&nbsp;on Monday. Two of the largest Bitcoin buys in history\u201455,500 BTC in November 2024 and 51,780 BTC in November 2025\u2014were made by Strategy. By coin count, this transaction is their third-greatest purchase.<\/p>\n<p>Gaining 815,061 BTC for $61.56B, the company&#8217;s holdings are up from 780,897 BTC after a $1 billion buy a week ago. On average, $74,395 was paid for each coin in the latest acquisition, which is somewhat less than the $75,527 average buying price for the firm.<\/p>\n<p>Like a few others, Strategy&#8217;s most recent purchase has been mostly funded via Stretch (STRC), the firm&#8217;s perpetual preferred security. According to the report, STRC received $2.18 billion, or about 85.7%, of the total revenues, while MSTR&#8217;s Class A common stock sales brought in $366 million.<\/p>\n<p>Among other records broken by STRC last week, the at-the-market (ATM) program established a new record for the company&#8217;s highest single-day purchase spree. On April 13, STRC Live reports that trading volume surpassed $1 billion. The at-the-market (ATM) program sold 11.9 million shares, which is a new daily record, and the amount was about 7,741 BTC.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the stock set a new record the next day with the at-the-market (ATM) program selling an estimated 14.4 million shares. A 518% increase compared to the four-week average was shown by the two days&#8217; combined total of 17,204 BTC.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Highlighted Crypto News Today:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thenewscrypto.com\/aave-loses-top-defi-spot-as-293m-kelp-dao-exploit-sparks-bad-debt-crisis\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Aave Loses Top DeFi Spot as $293M Kelp DAO Exploit Sparks Bad Debt Crisis<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like a few others, Strategy&#8217;s most recent purchase has been mostly funded via Stretch (STRC), the firm&#8217;s perpetual preferred security. Strategy purchased 34,164 Bitcoin for $2.54 billion between April 13 and 19, according to an 8-K filing the business made with the US SEC\u00a0on Monday. Michael Saylor&#8217;s Strategy, the largest public Bitcoin holder globally, has&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-investing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradertideinsights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradertideinsights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradertideinsights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradertideinsights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradertideinsights.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tradertideinsights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradertideinsights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradertideinsights.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradertideinsights.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradertideinsights.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}