{"id":38143,"date":"2021-03-01T16:27:37","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T14:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=38143"},"modified":"2025-08-30T03:09:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T00:09:19","slug":"microstrategy-invests-another-15-million-in-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/microstrategy-invests-another-15-million-in-bitcoin\/","title":{"rendered":"MicroStrategy Invests Another $15 Million in Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The analytics software provider MicroStrategy has purchased an additional 328 BTC for about $15 million. This was disclosed by MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">MicroStrategy has purchased an additional ~328 bitcoins for ~$15.0 million in cash at an average price of ~$45,710 per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/bitcoin?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#bitcoin<\/a>. As of 3\/1\/2021, we <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/hodl?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#hodl<\/a> ~90,859 bitcoins acquired for ~$2.186 billion at an average price of ~$24,063 per bitcoin. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24MSTR&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$MSTR<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fGH5KacsPI\">https:\/\/t.co\/fGH5KacsPI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Saylor (@michael_saylor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/michael_saylor\/status\/1366375915559792640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 1, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nThe average purchase price was $45 710. In total, MicroStrategy owns 90,859 BTC worth $2.186 billion, Saylor noted.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier the company <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/microstrategy-raises-more-than-1-billion-in-debt-financing-to-buy-bitcoin\">closed a round<\/a> of senior convertible bond offerings totaling $1.05 billion to invest in the first cryptocurrency. A few days later MicroStrategy announced that it acquired approximately <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/microstrategy-buys-more-bitcoin-for-1-026-billion\">about 19,452 BTC<\/a> for about $1.026 billion.<\/p>\n<p>According to Bitcoin Treasuries, the analytics software developer owned 90 531 BTC at the time of writing.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_126336\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-126336\" class=\"size-large wp-image-126336\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-429-1024x130.png\" alt=\"MicroStrategy \u0432\u043b\u043e\u0436\u0438\u043b\u0430 \u0435\u0449\u0435 $15 \u043c\u043b\u043d \u0432 \u0431\u0438\u0442\u043a\u043e\u0438\u043d\" width=\"1024\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-429-1024x130.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-429-300x38.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-429-768x98.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-429.png 1031w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-126336\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Data: Bitcoin Treasuries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In August 2020, the software company <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/microstrategy-becomes-the-first-nasdaq-listed-company-to-invest-part-of-its-capital-in-bitcoin\">purchased 21,454 BTC<\/a> for about $250 million, becoming the first public company to convert part of its free capital into bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>In September the company purchased another <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/microstrategy-bets-another-175-million-on-bitcoin\">16,796 BTC<\/a> for $175 million, and in December \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/microstrategy-invests-another-50-million-in-bitcoin-at-just-over-19000-per-coin\">2,574 BTC<\/a> for $50 million.<\/p>\n<p>In the same month the firm raised for bitcoin investment <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/microstrategy-raises-650-million-for-bitcoin-purchase\">$650 million of debt financing<\/a> via a senior convertible bond offering. The amount ended up <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/microstrategy-raises-convertible-bond-offering-to-550-million\">to be $100 million<\/a> above the target for the offering.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2021, Saylor said MicroStrategy <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/microstrategy-to-explore-new-bitcoin-investment-opportunities\">to explore new opportunities<\/a> for investing in the first cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forkloglive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog FEED<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The analytics software provider MicroStrategy has purchased an additional 328 BTC for about $15 million. This was disclosed by MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,1207],"class_list":["post-38143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-microstrategy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"25","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38143","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=38143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38145,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38143\/revisions\/38145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}