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MicroStrategy's Bitcoin Buys Drop 84% in 2 Weeks. Why Is Saylor Slowing Down?

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Strategy said it bought 250 bitcoin last week, after a 334-coin purchase the week before and 1,665 coins two weeks earlier. Its holdings reached 848,250 BTC, and it said it kept a $4.88 billion cash reserve.

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Strategy added 1,665 BTC two weeks ago, then 334 BTC last week, and then 250 BTC in its latest purchase.
MicroStrategy's Bitcoin Buys Drop 84% in 2 Weeks. Why Is Saylor Slowing Down?
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The most recent purchase made the company’s buying run smaller for a second straight week.
MicroStrategy's Bitcoin Buys Drop 84% in 2 Weeks. Why Is Saylor Slowing Down?
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The company’s latest buy lifted its Bitcoin holdings to 848,250 BTC.
Strategy adds 250 Bitcoin as holdings reach 848,250 BTC
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Strategy said it maintained a $4.88 billion cash reserve alongside the latest Bitcoin holdings figure.
Strategy adds 250 Bitcoin as holdings reach 848,250 BTC

What it means

Users and market watchers who track Strategy will see that the company is still adding bitcoin, but with smaller purchases than two weeks earlier. That change is visible in the sequence of 1,665 BTC, then 334 BTC, then 250 BTC, while the total holdings now stand at 848,250 BTC.

In practice, the company remains a large public holder of bitcoin and still reports a cash reserve at the same time. What changed here is the size of the latest purchase, not the fact that Strategy is continuing to buy and hold bitcoin.

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The move was larger before the first headline than after. That is an observation, not an explanation: the market also moves on things nobody publishes.

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Oct 12 12:06
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Sharpens the figure: $4.9B; brings into the story: BTC, with quotes

Has this happened before?

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