Crypto Whale Gobbles Up Another $180M in Bitcoin—Now Hoards 555,450 BTC
Another day, another nine-figure Bitcoin splurge from the institutional playbook. This time? A cool $180 million dumped into BTC—pushing total holdings to 555,450 coins. That’s enough to make even Satoshi raise an eyebrow.
Wall Street’s latest love affair with digital gold shows no signs of cooling off. Meanwhile, traditional finance bros are still trying to explain why they ‘don’t get’ crypto while quietly shuffling client funds into Grayscale.
Fun fact: At current prices, this stash could single-handedly move markets if dumped. But for now? HODL mode activated—with a side of institutional-grade diamond hands.
Strategy’s Latest Bitcoin Purchase In Spotlight
The company used money raised from selling its stock to pay for the Bitcoin. It made $128.5 million from selling regular stock and another $51.8 million from a special kind of stock called STRK preferred shares.
These funds came from a plan the company already had to sell stock. That plan is now finished, and they’ve started a new one for the rest of the year. With this latest buy, it now owns 555,450 BTC in total.
Moreover, the aggregate cost of all its Bitcoin purchases so far is $38.08 billion, with an average price of $68,550 per coin. At the current Bitcoin price of around $96,000, its holdings are now worth over $52 billion.
Just last week, the company made a much larger purchase of 15,355 Bitcoin for $1.42 billion. It has been buying Bitcoin almost every week since the beginning of 2025. So far this year, its Bitcoin investment has returned 14%. Now, it has set a goal to reach a 25% return and a $15 billion gain from Bitcoin.
Strategy is planning to raise more money, up to $84 billion by 2027, to keep buying more Bitcoin. They’ll raise this money by selling both stocks and bonds. The company also has a dashboard on its website that shows all its BTC data in real-time.
Michael Saylor, the Executive Chairman, continues to treat Bitcoin not just as an investment but as a CORE part of the company’s financial strategy. As a result, its stock has performed strongly. As of May 5, it was trading at $377.06, down 5% today, according to Yahoo.
Semler Scientific Follows Strategy’s BTC Tactic
In a similar report, Semler Scientific, a medical risk assessment company, has also bought more Bitcoin. They added about 167 BTC for $16.2 million. The firm paid an average of about $97,000 per coin.
Semler Scientific said this is part of its plan to protect against inflation and to also to hold on strong assets. The company also sees BTC as a good way to store value and protect money from losing its worth.
Meanwhile, experts at Bernstein believe other companies may follow the lead of Strategy and now Semler Scientific. They expect more businesses with extra cash and slow growth to begin adding Bitcoin to their balance sheets.
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