{"id":59637,"date":"2022-04-05T15:58:35","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T12:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=59637"},"modified":"2025-09-04T22:57:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T19:57:24","slug":"microstrategy-buys-4167-btc-for-190-5-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/microstrategy-buys-4167-btc-for-190-5-million\/","title":{"rendered":"MicroStrategy buys 4,167 BTC for $190.5 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MicroStrategy&#8217;s division, MacroStrategy, bought 4,167 BTC for $190.5 million. This was announced by founder and CEO Michael Saylor.<\/p>\n<figure class=\\\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\\\">\n<div class=\\\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\\\">\\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"twitter-tweet\\\" data-width=\\\"500\\\" data-dnt=\\\"true\\\">\n<p lang=\\\"en\\\" dir=\\\"ltr\\\">MacroStrategy has purchased an additional 4,167 bitcoins for ~$190.5 million at an average price of ~$45,714 per <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/bitcoin?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">#bitcoin<\/a>. As of 4\/4\/22 MicroStrategy <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/hodls?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">#hodls<\/a> ~129,218 bitcoins acquired for ~$3.97 billion at an average price of ~$30,700 per bitcoin. <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24MSTR&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">$MSTR<\/a><a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.co\/Z45OuJU5KI\\\">https:\/\/t.co\/Z45OuJU5KI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Saylor (@saylor) <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/saylor\/status\/1511315882886246409?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">April 5, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\\\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\\\" charset=\\\"utf-8\\\"><\/script>\\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>He said the average price per bitcoin was about $45,714. MicroStrategy now holds 129,218 BTC in its reserves. The company published an SEC filing with details of the deal on its website.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>According to Bitcoin Treasuries, the total value of the digital gold in MicroStrategy&#8217;s reserves is about $6.09 billion.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the company <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/microstrategy-secures-205-million-debt-financing-to-buy-bitcoin\">took out<\/a> a loan for $205 million secured against its cryptocurrency holdings. The loan was officially described as intended to fund further bitcoin purchases.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Glassnode <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/glassnode-notes-continued-bitcoin-accumulation-trend-among-whales\">noted<\/a> the continuation of the trend toward Bitcoin accumulation among whales. Among the companies showing active demand for the leading cryptocurrency, they named MicroStrategy.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noreferrer noopener\\\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 all the news, <a href=\\\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noreferrer noopener\\\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news, infographics and opinions.<\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MacroStrategy bought 4,167 BTC for $190.5 million, according to founder and CEO Michael Saylor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59638,"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":[1156,1207],"class_list":["post-59637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-institutional-investors-and-whales","tag-microstrategy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"18","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59637","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=59637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59639,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59637\/revisions\/59639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}