{"id":19585,"date":"2024-12-16T17:36:09","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T15:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/microstrategy-acquires-15350-btc-for-1-5-billion\/"},"modified":"2024-12-16T17:36:09","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T15:36:09","slug":"microstrategy-acquires-15350-btc-for-1-5-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/microstrategy-acquires-15350-btc-for-1-5-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"MicroStrategy Acquires 15,350 BTC for $1.5 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Between December 9 and 15, MicroStrategy purchased 15,350 BTC for $1.5 billion, equating to $100,386 per coin. This was announced by the company&#8217;s founder, Michael Saylor.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">MicroStrategy has acquired 15,350 BTC for ~$1.5 billion at ~$100,386 per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/bitcoin?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#bitcoin<\/a> and has achieved BTC Yield of 46.4% QTD and 72.4% YTD. As of 12\/15\/2024, we hodl 439,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24BTC&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$BTC<\/a> acquired for ~$27.1 billion at ~$61,725 per bitcoin. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24MSTR&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$MSTR<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SaWLNBVkrl\">https:\/\/t.co\/SaWLNBVkrl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Saylor\u26a1\ufe0f (@saylor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/saylor\/status\/1868643218956734876?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 16, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing, MicroStrategy holds 439,000 BTC, acquired for $27.1 billion at an average rate of $61,725.<\/p>\n<p>The yield for the last quarter was 46.4%, and 72.4% since the beginning of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The bitcoin purchase coincided with the sale of 3,884,712 MicroStrategy shares for the same $1.5 billion. As of December 15, investors have access to another $7.65 billion in MSTR out of the $21 billion planned for realization.<\/p>\n<p>On December 13, Nasdaq announced the inclusion of MicroStrategy shares in the Nasdaq-100, a list of the 100 largest non-financial companies by market capitalization whose securities are traded on the exchange.<\/p>\n<p>Experts believe that inclusion in the index will lead to a surge in MSTR&#8217;s price.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing, MicroStrategy shares are trading at $421.5 in the Nasdaq pre-market. The market capitalization is $91.82 billion.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-qw.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXcDD8f9hHA6w0f2dlxRMd9SAgKWGXJyZlO9cDNE4A1B38gankgUP0yw2UbeC4GujFFDzo2xRh_cL-RzAy9JqWAKatPQprjJ3Nc0RM3VEzlYbvHloTS3ZsOZ1OLR_4ayRvFFgVdzLg?key=Rhb368IdPpV3jvOOx3zM16w9\" alt=\"MicroStrategy Acquires 15,350 BTC for $1.5 Billion\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">30-minute MSTR chart on Nasdaq. Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tradingview.com\/chart\/?symbol=NASDAQ%3AMSTR\">TradingView<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Earlier in December, JPMorgan analysts noted that mining companies have begun adopting a strategy of acquiring bitcoins on their balance sheets, following MicroStrategy&#8217;s example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between December 9 and 15, MicroStrategy purchased 15,350 BTC for $1.5 billion, equating to $100,386 per coin. This was announced by the company&#8217;s founder, Michael Saylor. MicroStrategy has acquired 15,350 BTC for ~$1.5 billion at ~$100,386 per #bitcoin and has achieved BTC Yield of 46.4% QTD and 72.4% YTD. As of 12\/15\/2024, we hodl 439,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19584,"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-19585","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":"19","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19585","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=19585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}