Saylor signals Bitcoin buy as Strategy's stash climbs to over $71B

Strategy co-founder Michael Saylor signaled an impending Bitcoin (BTC) acquisition connected Sunday, arsenic the company’s full holdings crossed $71 billion.

The treasury company’s most caller purchase occurred connected July 14, erstwhile it bought 4,225 BTC for $472.5 million, bringing its full holdings to 601,550 BTC, valued astatine implicit $71.4 billion.

The institution is up astir 66.5% connected its Bitcoin investment, accounting for implicit $28.5 cardinal successful unrealized gains, according to SaylorTracker.

Strategy’s Bitcoin purchases. Source: SaylorTracker

Bitcoin treasury companies, led by Strategy, proceed to beryllium 1 of the main drivers of Bitcoin demand successful the existent marketplace cycle, alongside exchange-traded funds (ETFs), organization investors, and centralized crypto exchanges.

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Strategy’s valuation surges alongside $4 trillion full crypto marketplace cap

The company’s banal surged by astir 21.52% successful the past month, bringing Strategy’s full valuation to implicit $118 billion. 

Strategy’s banal rally came amid a emergence successful the crypto market, with the full crypto marketplace capitalization crossing the $4 trillion mark successful July and Bitcoin hitting a caller all-time high.

Strategy’s banal terms September 2024-July 2025. Source: Yahoo Finance

In December 2024, the BTC treasury institution entered the Nasdaq 100 banal marketplace index arsenic organization request for Strategy’s banal grew.

Certain organization investors privation vulnerability to Bitcoin but cannot clasp Bitcoin straight successful their concern funds. These investors clasp shares of Bitcoin treasury companies oregon acquisition their firm indebtedness products arsenic a proxy for holding BTC.

“There are trillions of dollars of managed capital, and immoderate of that has strict mandates associated with it,” macroeconomist Lyn Alden wrote. 

“There are banal funds wherever the portfolio manager tin lone bargain stocks. He oregon she cannot bargain bonds, ETFs, oregon commodities,” Alden gave arsenic an illustration of the types of restrictions placed connected plus managers.

Vanguard, 1 of the biggest organization concern firms, has agelong opposed holding Bitcoin oregon offering Bitcoin straight to clients, but present holds 20 cardinal shares of Strategy, oregon astir 8% of the company’s outstanding stock.

The concern firm’s indirect vulnerability to Bitcoin done a publically traded institution highlights Bitcoin’s integration into accepted concern done bequest concern vehicles.

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