Funding company Bitcoin Strategy continued to increase its accumulation with new purchases involving 17,994 tokens of the cryptocurrency.
The strategy expanded Bitcoin reserves by $1.28 billion with new purchases
In a new post on X, Chief Strategy Officer Michael Saylor shared details related to the company’s latest Bitcoin purchase on Monday. This purchase was on the larger side, including an amount of 17,994 BTC. The strategy would need to spend an average of $70,946 per token, or $1.28 billion in total, to accumulate this stack.
So far in 2026, the company has only made one purchase that was bigger: the acquisition of 22,305 BTC since January (worth $2.12 billion at the time). After this big new addition, Strategy’s holdings increased to 738,731 BTC, which is equivalent to about 3.7% of all tokens in circulation.
According to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the acquisition was funded by the company’s over-the-counter (ATM) sale of STRC and MSTR shares.
In total, this was the 102nd Bitcoin purchase made by Strategy. In total, the treasury firm invested $56.04 billion in cryptocurrency with these purchases.
These huge holdings are currently under water, but the company’s net worth is $75,862 BTC, leaving Strategy stock with a windfall of around 9% at the current spot price. Despite the underwater situation, the company has recently continued to buy, solidifying its position as the largest public holder of Bitcoin, as shown by BitcoinTreasuries.net chart.
The top 10 public companies by BTC holdings | Source: BitcoinTreasuries.net
While acquisitions from other digital asset fund companies have slowed following the downward volatility experienced by the cryptocurrency sector since the last quarter of 2025, another company besides Strategy has continued to make regular purchases: Bitmine.
Bitmine is the largest Ethereum fund and only second to Strategy in the overall ranking of holders of public digital assets. The company’s position in the market is despite the fact that it has only adopted the ETH treasury strategy in the middle of 2025.
Recently, the company has been making regular Monday buy announcements like Strategy. According to the latest press release, Bitmine gained 60,976 ETH during the past week, which is higher than the 40,000 to 50,000 ETH that the company has been hovering around lately. Tom Lee, the company’s chairman, said: “As the saying goes, no one ‘rings the bell at the bottom,’ and so Bitmine’s strategy is to increase the rate of ETH accumulation a little now.”
After the latest accumulation spread, Bitmine’s assets increased to 4,534,563 ETH, representing a share of the network supply of 3.76%. The company has set a target of 5% of Ethereum’s supply, so in this figure, it is already more than 75%.
BTC price
Bitcoin dropped below $66,000 on Sunday, but the asset has since bounced back a bit as it is now hovering around $68,600.
Looks like the price of the coin has gone down over the past few days | Source: BTCUSDT on TradingView
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