{"id":101942,"date":"2025-04-21T18:48:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T13:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/21\/michael-saylors-strategy-acquires-6556-bitcoin-for-555-8m-amid-85k-trading-adding-to-growing-portfolio\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T18:48:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T13:18:06","slug":"michael-saylors-strategy-acquires-6556-bitcoin-for-555-8m-amid-85k-trading-adding-to-growing-portfolio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/21\/michael-saylors-strategy-acquires-6556-bitcoin-for-555-8m-amid-85k-trading-adding-to-growing-portfolio\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Saylor\u2019s Strategy Acquires 6,556 Bitcoin for $555.8M Amid $85K Trading &#8211; Adding to Growing Portfolio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Saylor&#8217;s Strategy, one of the world&#8217;s largest publicly listed corporate Bitcoin holders, made a significant investment last week by acquiring 6,556 Bitcoin for $555.8 million. This latest purchase comes as the cryptocurrency hovers around $85,000. The acquisition took place from April 14-20, with an average price of $84,785 per coin, as revealed in the company&#8217;s recent Form 8-K filing with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. This new addition represents 1.2% of Strategy&#8217;s total Bitcoin holdings, which stood at 538,200 BTC as of April 20, acquired for $36.5 billion at an average price of $67,766 per BTC. The purchase was funded through proceeds from stock offerings. Strategy&#8217;s latest buying spree follows a previous acquisition of 3,459 BTC on April 14, marking the first purchase since March 31. The company had paused its buying activity between March 31 and April 6 when Bitcoin&#8217;s price dropped below $87,000. In 2025, Strategy has acquired a total of 91,800 Bitcoin, constituting 17% of its overall BTC holdings. This is a developing story, and more information will be provided as it becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Saylor&#8217;s Strategy, one of the world&#8217;s largest publicly listed corporate Bitcoin holders, made a significant investment last week by acquiring 6,556 Bitcoin for $555.8 million. This latest purchase comes as the cryptocurrency hovers around $85,000. The acquisition took place from April 14-20, with an average price of $84,785 per coin, as revealed in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/author\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/category\/just-in\/\" rel=\"category tag\">JUST IN<\/a>","tag_info":"JUST IN","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}