{"id":35093,"date":"2025-08-11T13:16:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T13:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=35093"},"modified":"2025-08-11T13:16:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T13:16:32","slug":"saylors-strategy-buys-155-btc-for-18-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=35093","title":{"rendered":"Saylor&#8217;s Strategy Buys 155 BTC for $18 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<br \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Strategy \u2013 the company founded by Michael Saylor \u2013 rarely skips a Monday without announcing a crypto purchase. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Today was no exception as the company revealed it had acquired the modest (for its standards) 155 BTC for roughly $18 million. The average price of the deal was around $116,401 per coin.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Strategy has acquired 155 BTC for ~$18.0 million at ~$116,401 per bitcoin and has achieved BTC Yield of 25.0% YTD 2025. As of 8\/10\/2025, we hodl 628,946 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24BTC&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">$BTC<\/a> acquired for ~$46.09 billion at ~$73,288 per bitcoin. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24MSTR&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">$MSTR<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24STRC&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">$STRC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24STRK&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">$STRK<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24STRF&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">$STRF<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24STRD&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">$STRD<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bx0814RI1w\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/bx0814RI1w<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Saylor (@saylor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/saylor\/status\/1954876110891872558?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">August 11, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Over the past few months, the company has announced several more impressive deals. Towards the end of June, it bought 4,980 BTC for over $530 million, while a few weeks prior, it <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/saylors-strategy-is-back-spending-over-1-billion-to-buy-more-bitcoin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">stunned<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> the community with a multi-billion-dollar purchase.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Strategy has achieved a BTC yield of 25% YTD 2025. <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">It is the world\u2019s <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">biggest<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> corporate holder of the primary cryptocurrency, and currently it has 628,946 BTC <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">bought<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> for approximately $46.09 billion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Due to the price increase of the asset, the current value of the holdings now exceeds $75 billion, meaning the company is sitting on a paper profit of almost $30 billion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">It is worth mentioning that Strategy began accumulating BTC exactly five years ago. 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