MSTR Stock Rockets 50% as Bitcoin Shatters Records—Buying Frenzy Ignites

MicroStrategy’s high-stakes Bitcoin bet pays off—again. As BTC smashes past $80K, the enterprise software-turned-crypto-holding-company sees its shares surge on frenzied institutional demand.

The leverage play Wall Street loves (until it doesn’t)

MSTR’s 190K BTC hoard—now worth over $15B—turns the firm into a turbocharged proxy for crypto bulls. CEO Michael Saylor’s ‘hold and borrow’ strategy looks genius… until the next 30% Bitcoin correction, of course.

When your treasury strategy outperforms your actual product

The company’s legacy analytics software? Still shrinking. But who cares when your Bitcoin purchases deliver 10x the returns of your core business? Classic 2025 corporate priorities.

As one analyst quipped: ‘They’ve essentially launched a leveraged Bitcoin ETF with extra steps—and enterprise software baggage.’