{"id":19112,"date":"2024-12-02T17:28:53","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T15:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/microstrategy-acquires-15400-btc-for-1-5-billion\/"},"modified":"2024-12-02T17:28:53","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T15:28:53","slug":"microstrategy-acquires-15400-btc-for-1-5-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/microstrategy-acquires-15400-btc-for-1-5-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"MicroStrategy Acquires 15,400 BTC for $1.5 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MicroStrategy has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microstrategy.com\/press\/microstrategy-acquires-15400-btc-achieves-btc-yield-38-qtd-and-63-ytd-now-holds-402100-btc_12-02-2024\">acquired<\/a> an additional 15,400 BTC, as announced by the company&#8217;s founder, Michael Saylor.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">MicroStrategy has acquired 15,400 BTC for ~$1.5 billion at ~$95,976 per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/bitcoin?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#bitcoin<\/a> and has achieved BTC Yield of 38.7% QTD and 63.3% YTD. As of 12\/2\/2024, we hodl 402,100 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24BTC&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$BTC<\/a> acquired for ~$23.4 billion at ~$58,263 per bitcoin. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24MSTR&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$MSTR<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/K3TK4msGp0\">https:\/\/t.co\/K3TK4msGp0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Saylor\u26a1\ufe0f (@saylor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/saylor\/status\/1863569873713955156?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to a report filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the company purchased the coins for approximately $1.5 billion at an average price of $95,976.<\/p>\n<p>The yield for the last quarter was 38.7%, and for the year, it was 63.3%.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing, MicroStrategy holds 402,100 BTC, valued at approximately $23.4 billion ($58,263 per coin).<\/p>\n<p>The funds for the additional BTC purchase were raised through the sale of 3.7 million company shares on the stock market.<\/p>\n<p>MSTR is trading at $390 in pre-market, with a market capitalization of $87.05 billion.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-qw.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXfCLMWT-uYAs7SrB5MSkFSnbdxCn_sSGYSlMFW9Nm97yB_zH4ae0Nf3P3Gmte2LoeiPw4ULa38U55d__YoD4p-uxkz5R7hEqUvu51fkLLkXHPjBKFF1e7Wm_dE5-KsQGGbMnon9Zg?key=aAN_Cj0edQgLisahGChTqEh_\" alt=\"MicroStrategy Acquires 15,400 BTC for $1.5 Billion\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Hourly chart of MSTR shares on Nasdaq. Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/ru.tradingview.com\/chart\/?symbol=NASDAQ%3AMSTR\">TradingView<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Throughout 2024, MicroStrategy&#8217;s shares have increased in price five times more than Bitcoin\u2014650.2% compared to 123.1%. The company&#8217;s growth rate has surpassed the S&#038;P 500 index and Nvidia.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, during a presentation for Microsoft&#8217;s board of directors, Saylor outlined a Bitcoin strategy aimed at adding $5 trillion to the company&#8217;s market capitalization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MicroStrategy has acquired an additional 15,400 BTC, as announced by the company&#8217;s founder, Michael Saylor. MicroStrategy has acquired 15,400 BTC for ~$1.5 billion at ~$95,976 per #bitcoin and has achieved BTC Yield of 38.7% QTD and 63.3% YTD. As of 12\/2\/2024, we hodl 402,100 $BTC acquired for ~$23.4 billion at ~$58,263 per bitcoin. $MSTR https:\/\/t.co\/K3TK4msGp0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,1208,1207,1221],"class_list":["post-19112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-michael-saylor","tag-microstrategy","tag-stocks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"10","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}