Bitcoin (BTC) treasury company Strategy bought 267 BTC for approximately $22.1 million between October 12 and October 18, paying an average of $82,900 per coin, according to a Monday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
According to Bitcoin Treasuries, the purchase lifted the company’s total holdings to 848,517 BTC, acquired for approximately $64 billion at an average cost of $75,449 per Bitcoin.
Strategy’s current BTC holdings equal more than 4% of Bitcoin’s total supply, The Block reported.
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Stock Sales Fund Bitcoin Purchase
Strategy financed the acquisition using proceeds from at-the-market sales of its Class A common stock, MSTR, and its USD Cash reserve.
The company sold 140,872 MSTR common shares and used another $100,000 from its USD Cash reserve.
Strategy retained $18.79 billion of capacity under its common-stock sales program.
Meanwhile, the company spent approximately $193.1 million repurchasing STRC preferred shares and used $45.5 million from its USD Reserve to pay preferred-stock dividends.
Its board of directors also raised the digital credit securities repurchase authorization from $2 billion to $3 billion.
As of October 18, 2026, Strategy reported $4.83 billion in its USD Reserve and $447.3 million in USD Cash.
Saylor Outlines Digital Money Vision
The acquisition followed Executive Chairman Michael Saylor’s Sunday message, “We found room for more orange.”
At ParaFi Investor Day last week, Saylor described a proposed dollar-pegged, Bitcoin-backed stablecoin that he said could offer yields of 6% to 8%.
The Block earlier reported that MSCI’s new rules could exclude Strategy and other digital asset treasury companies from its indexes.
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