The strategy co-founder Michael Saylor signaled the imminent purchase of Bitcoin (BTC) on Sunday as the company’s total holdings exceeded $71 billion.
The treasury company’s latest purchase purchased 4,225 BTC for $472.5 million on July 14, raising its total holding to 601,550 btc, exceeding $71.4 billion.
According to SaylorTracker, the company has grown by around 66.5% in Bitcoin investments, with unrealized profits exceeding $28.5 billion.
Strategy-led Bitcoin Finance Company remains one of the main drivers of Bitcoin demand in the current market cycle, along with exchange-traded funds (ETFs), institutional investors and centralized crypto exchanges.
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Strategic valuations will skyrocket along with a total crypto market capitalization of $4 trillion
The company’s stock jumped approximately 21.52% last month, with a total strategy valuation exceeding $118 billion.
Strategic stock rallies came amid rising crypto markets, with total crypto market capital exceeding the $4 trillion mark in July, with Bitcoin reaching its all-time high.
In December 2024, the BTC Treasury Company entered the NASDAQ 100 Stock Market Index due to increased institutional demand for strategic stocks.
Certain institutional investors want exposure to Bitcoin, but they cannot hold Bitcoin directly in their investment funds. These investors will either hold shares in Bitcoin Treasury Companies or purchase corporate debt products as a proxy to hold BTC.
“There are trillions of dollars of managed capital, some of which have the strict obligations associated with it,” writes macroeconomicist Lynn Alden.
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“There are stock funds that the portfolio manager can only purchase stocks. He or she cannot purchase bonds, ETFs or products,” said Alden as an example of the type of restrictions imposed on the asset manager.
Vanguard, one of the largest institutional investment companies, has long opposed to holding Bitcoin or providing Bitcoin directly to clients, but now holds a strategy of 20 million shares, or about 8% of the company’s outstanding shares.
Indirect exposure of investment companies to Bitcoin through publicly available companies highlights integration into traditional finance through legacy investment instruments of Bitcoin.
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