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Strategy, the largest public corporate holder of Bitcoin, purchased 22,305 BTC from January 12 to 18, increasing its supply of the first cryptocurrency to 709,715 coins.
The average purchase price of the latest batch was $95,284 per BTC, a total of about $2 billion. According to the company, financing of the transaction was provided by the sale of Strategy common shares (MSTR), as well as preferred securities STRC and STRK.
Since 2020, Stretegy has invested about $53.92 billion in the formation of a bitcoin reserve, the average purchase price of one bitcoin for the entire period was $75,979. The reserve created by the company exceeds 3% of the total volume of bitcoin emission.
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The latest Bitcoin purchase was the second in 2026. The company purchased an additional 13,627 BTC for $1.25 billion from January 5 to January 11. In 2025, the largest public “crypto-treasury company” acquired more than 106 000 bitcoins. Strategy Chairman Michael Saylor previously said he expects to spend at least $500 million weekly on such deals.
According to Saylor, the company’s strategy is to acquire the maximum number of available bitcoins and then withdraw the cryptocurrency from free circulation. The businessman hopes that this way his company will achieve a mechanism for super-support.
Earlier, economist Ram ben Zeev criticized this idea. He believes that Bitcoin does not generate cash flow, and its price directly depends on market speculation. And an attempt to “buy up all Bitcoin” is even mathematically impossible, Ram ben Zeev is sure.
