{"id":23862,"date":"2025-05-11T15:31:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T12:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/bitcoin-turns-deflationary-due-to-strategys-acquisitions\/"},"modified":"2025-05-11T15:31:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T12:31:47","slug":"bitcoin-turns-deflationary-due-to-strategys-acquisitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/bitcoin-turns-deflationary-due-to-strategys-acquisitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Turns Deflationary Due to Strategy&#8217;s Acquisitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pace at which Michael Saylor&#8217;s firm, Strategy, is acquiring Bitcoin surpasses the rate at which miners produce new coins. This observation was made by CryptoQuant CEO Ki Young Ju.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bitcoin?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Bitcoin<\/a> is deflationary.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Strategy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Strategy<\/a> is buying BTC faster than it&#8217;s mined. Their 555K BTC is illiquid with no plans to sell. MSTR&#8217;s holdings alone mean a -2.23% annual deflation rate\u2014likely higher with other stable institutional holders. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9VKT3IdcYo\">pic.twitter.com\/9VKT3IdcYo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ki Young Ju (@ki_young_ju) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ki_young_ju\/status\/1921143381440283077?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 10, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>&#8220;Their 555,000 BTC is illiquid, with no plans to sell. MSTR&#8217;s holdings alone imply an annual deflation of 2.23%. Considering other stable institutional holders, it&#8217;s likely even higher,&#8221; the expert noted.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As of May 4, 2025, the firm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategy.com\/press\/strategy-acquires-1895-btc-and-now-holds-555450-btc_05-05-2025\">held<\/a> 555,450 BTC. The year-to-date return was 14%.<\/p>\n<p>According to the quarterly report, Strategy&#8217;s revenue <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/strategys-losses-surpass-4-billion-since-start-of-year\">decreased<\/a> by 3.6% year-on-year to $111.1 million. The net loss amounted to $4.2 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The firm&#8217;s operating expenses in the first quarter surged nearly 2000% year-on-year to $6 billion, primarily due to an unrealized loss on Bitcoin ($5.9 billion).<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, analysts at Bernstein predicted that by 2029, corporations will <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bernstein-forecasts-corporate-bitcoin-holdings-to-reach-330-billion\">increase<\/a> their digital gold holdings to $330 billion, with Strategy remaining a leader in acquisitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pace at which Michael Saylor&#8217;s firm, Strategy, is acquiring Bitcoin surpasses the rate at which miners produce new coins. This observation was made by CryptoQuant CEO Ki Young Ju. #Bitcoin is deflationary.@Strategy is buying BTC faster than it&#8217;s mined. Their 555K BTC is illiquid with no plans to sell. MSTR&#8217;s holdings alone mean a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23861,"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":[18,1538,1207],"class_list":["post-23862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-bitcoin-purchase","tag-microstrategy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"27","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}