{"id":889385,"date":"2026-02-01T02:15:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T08:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/01\/strategy-makes-its-biggest-bitcoin-bet-yet-with-1-25b-weekly-buy\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T02:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T08:15:11","slug":"strategy-makes-its-biggest-bitcoin-bet-yet-with-1-25b-weekly-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/01\/strategy-makes-its-biggest-bitcoin-bet-yet-with-1-25b-weekly-buy\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategy Makes Its Biggest Bitcoin Bet Yet With $1.25B Weekly Buy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoins <\/p>\n<div>\n<div id=\"blockquote-block_f6b87f1d125cfd162501f437968d3fe5\">\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span>Strategy (MSTR) purchased an additional US$1.25 billion in Bitcoin, bringing its total holdings to 687,410 BTC at an average entry price of US$75,353.<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span>The company\u2019s total stash is currently worth approximately US$62.3 billion, representing more than US$10 billion in unrealised gains with Bitcoin trading around US$90,600.<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span>Strategy raised US$748 million through share sales, building a US$2.19 billion cash reserve capable of covering interest and dividends for roughly 32 months.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Once again, like every Monday and almost religiously at this point, <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptonews.com.au\/category\/microstrategy\/\">Strategy<\/a> (formerly MicroStrategy) has announced a new batch, but this time, a big boy purchase, one of US$1.25 billion (AU$1.86 billion).<\/p>\n<p>The purchase lifts Strategy\u2019s holdings to 687,410 BTC. The company said it has spent US$51.80 billion (AU$79.2 billion) in total to build the position, at an average entry price of US$75,353 (AU$112,324) per Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s share price has moved with Bitcoin\u2019s recent volatility. Strategy\u2019s stock (MSTR) traded above US$450 (AU$670) last summer but closed Friday at US$157 (AU$234), a drop of about 65%.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"838\" height=\"499\" alt   data-eio=\"l\" data-old-src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAA0YAAAHzAQAAAAAsxzBaAAAAAnRSTlMAAHaTzTgAAABISURBVHja7cEBAQAAAICQ\/q\/uCAoAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIAazp4AAX1XszUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.cryptonews.com.au\/2026\/01\/13155755\/image-11.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.cryptonews.com.au\/2026\/01\/13155755\/image-11.png 838w, https:\/\/cdn.cryptonews.com.au\/2026\/01\/13155755\/image-11-768x457.png 768w\"><figcaption>MSTR Price. Source: Google Finance.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"h-mstr-sits-on-unrealised-gains-cash-reserves\">MSTR Sits on Unrealised Gains, Cash Reserves<\/h2>\n<p>With Bitcoin trading around US$90,600 (AU$135,044), the stash is worth roughly US$62.3 billion (AU$95.3 billion), implying more than US$10 billion (AU$14.9 billion) in unrealised gains based on the figures provided.<\/p>\n<p>Strategy\u2019s buying has continued over the past 18 months, accelerating after Donald Trump\u2019s late-2024 election win, when expectations grew for shifts in US crypto regulation, accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>Strategy has also built for itself a nice trench of cash, over US$2.19 billion (AU$3.26 billion), lifting its cash reserve after <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptonews.com.au\/news\/strategy-boosts-cash-to-2-19bn-fortifying-bitcoin-bet-through-crypto-winter-132271\/\">selling<\/a> common shares and raising about US$748 million (AU$1.12 billion).<\/p>\n<p>That cash is big enough to cover the firm\u2019s interest and preferred dividends for about 32 months, so they basically covered everyone with scheduled payments.<\/p>\n<p>This also comes shortly after Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptonews.com.au\/news\/msci-reprieve-lifts-strategy-shares-keeps-crypto-treasury-firms-in-indexes-132383\/\">decided<\/a> not to remove crypto firms from indices yet, which triggered a nice pump for MSTR.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptonews.com.au\/news\/bitcoin-faces-consolidation-after-disappointing-2025-analysts-cautious-on-near-term-132411\/\">Bitcoin<\/a> is currently trading around US$91K (AU$135K), practically no change today, but a slight decrease in the weekly chart, as per CoinMarketCap data.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"871\" height=\"515\" alt   data-eio=\"l\" data-old-src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAA2cAAAIDAQAAAACoIlswAAAAAnRSTlMAAHaTzTgAAABOSURBVHja7cExAQAAAMKg9U9tDQ+gAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAgD8D3UoAAYnNCUsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.cryptonews.com.au\/2026\/01\/13155814\/image-12.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.cryptonews.com.au\/2026\/01\/13155814\/image-12.png 871w, https:\/\/cdn.cryptonews.com.au\/2026\/01\/13155814\/image-12-768x454.png 768w\"><figcaption>Source: TradingView.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptonews.com.au\/news\/bitcoin-faces-consolidation-after-disappointing-2025-analysts-cautious-on-near-term-132411\/\">Bitcoin Faces Consolidation After Disappointing 2025, Analysts Cautious on Near Term<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> Jos\u00e9 Oramas <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptonews.com.au\/news\/strategy-makes-its-biggest-bitcoin-bet-yet-with-1-25b-weekly-buy-132450\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strategy (MSTR) purchased an additional US$1.25 billion in Bitcoin, bringing its total holdings to 687,410 BTC at an average entry price of US$75,353. The company\u2019s total stash is currently worth approximately US$62.3 billion, representing more than US$10 billion in unrealised gains with Bitcoin trading around US$90,600. Strategy raised US$748 million through share sales, building a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":889386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[397,1053],"tags":[11476],"class_list":{"0":"post-889385","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-makes","8":"category-strategy","9":"tag-bitcoins"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/889386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}