Bitcoin Bull Strategy Expands Its Enormous Stockpile To 568,840 BTC After Latest $1.3 Billion Buy

Michael Saylor’s Strategy, the largest corporate holder of Bitcoin, purchased a fresh batch of BTC over the past week as the price of the apex crypto jumped back above the $100,000 milestone.The business intelligence firm and “Bitcoin development company” announced today that it had purchased even more Bitcoin for approximately $1.3 billion.Another $1.3 Billion In BitcoinAccording to an 8-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday, Strategy, formerly known as MicroStrategy, purchased 13,390 additional Bitcoin for a total of $1.34 billion between May 5 and May 11 at an average price of $99,856 per Bitcoin.The latest acquisition pushes the size of the company’s holdings to a new record peak. As of May 12, Strategy holds 568,840 Bitcoin, or $59 billion worth at the current asset price. The company’s overall average purchase price is $69,287. For context, the Michael Saylor-founded company now owns over 2.7% of the 21 million BTC that can ever be created, with roughly 19.7 million BTC of the total 21 million supply already circulating.The purchase brought Strategy’s BTC yield — a proprietary performance indicator measuring the percentage change of the ratio between its BTC stash and assumed diluted shares — to 15.5%, Saylor stated in an X post. In 2025, the Tysons, Virginia-based company expects to maintain the Bitcoin yield target at 15%.Strategy has acquired 13,390 BTC for ~$1.34 billion at ~$99,856 per bitcoin and has achieved BTC Yield of 15.5% YTD 2025. As of 5/11/2025, we hodl 568,840 $BTC acquired for ~$39.41 billion at ~$69,287 per bitcoin. $MSTR $STRK $STRF https://t.co/oSXRMwiTkU— Michael Saylor (@saylor) May 12, 2025Strategy funded its most recent purchase by selling $25 million worth of so-called perpetual “STRK” preferred stock and $1.31 billion worth of its class A common stock, MSTR. STRK and MSTR are in addition to Strategy’s ambitious “42/42” plan.The company recently doubled down on its ambitions to acquire as much Bitcoin as possible, unveiling an equity offering program, in which the company will sell another $21 billion in common shares. Strategy also plans to issue $21 billion in corporate debt, targeting a total of $84 billion in under three years.The Bitcoin Adoption Race Among CorporationsAccording to Bitwise, roughly 80 publicly traded companies now hold Bitcoin on their balance sheet. Cantor Fitzgerald, SoftBank, Bitfinex, and Tether recently announced the planned launch of a $3.6 billion Bitcoin venture called Twenty One.Additionally, Metaplanet, often dubbed Asia’s Strategy for its continued Bitcoin accumulation, announced today that it had scooped up an additional $126.7 million worth of BTC. That has sent it above BTC-stacking nation El Salvador’s stash of 6,174 BTC, as ZyCrypto has reported.Bitcoin was changing hands at $104,193 as of press time, according to CoinGecko data, after jumping by 9% over a seven-day period. The premier crypto hit its current all-time high of nearly $109,000 in January and is now just 5.4% short of that peak.