Strategy Adds Another 535 Bitcoin As Holdings Approach 820,000 BTC

Strategy has resumed its Bitcoin accumulation with a new $43 million acquisition, which has taken its holdings close to the 820,000 BTC milestone.

In terms of the size, the buy was relatively modest, but it represents the return to accumulation for Strategy after it chose to skip last Monday’s regular buy. Saylor foreshadowed this resumption in his usual Sunday X post with the company’s BTC portfolio tracker, this time using the caption, “Back to work.”

So far since the statement, the company hasn’t made any such sale. While Strategy making a sale would be quite the rare event, it’s not like it hasn’t done it before. Back during December 2022, the firm offloaded 704 tokens as the cryptocurrency traded at lows of that year’s bear market.

According to the filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the latest acquisition by Strategy was funded mostly using sales of its MSTR at-the-market (ATM) stock offering. Though, a small number of STRC shares were also involved.

Following the purchase, the company’s holdings have grown to 818,869 BTC, approaching the 820,000 BTC milestone. Strategy spent a total of $61.86 billion on this stack, which gives it an average cost basis of $75,540. Earlier, Bitcoin had slipped under this mark, but the recent recovery rally has meant that the treasury firm is back in the green.

Bitmine chairman Tom Lee noted that the company has decided to slow down its purchases as it has been moving too fast for its original target; the company set a goal to reach 5% of the Ethereum supply by late 2026, but at its pace so far, it would have reached it by just mid-July.

At the time of writing, Ethereum is floating around $2,300, down 0.5% over the last seven days.