Michael Saylor just made his boldest move of the month. Strategy, the Bitcoin treasury firm he chairs, has snapped up 24,869 BTC worth $2.01 billion, making it the second time in under a month the company has spent over two billion dollars in a single week on Bitcoin. The crypto world saw this one coming, and Saylor’s track record of telegraphing his buys makes this story even more fascinating.
The $2 Billion Bitcoin Buy in Numbers
On Monday, May 18, Saylor confirmed on X that Strategy acquired 24,869 BTC between May 11 and May 17, 2026. The total spend came in at approximately $2.01 billion, with an average purchase price of $80,985 per Bitcoin.
With this purchase, Strategy’s total Bitcoin holdings have climbed to 843,738 BTC, acquired at a cumulative cost of roughly $63.87 billion at an average of $75,700 per coin.
The company also reported a BTC Yield of 12.6% year to date in 2026. That metric measures how fast Bitcoin holdings are growing relative to diluted shares outstanding, and it is one of the few numbers Saylor watches more closely than the Bitcoin price itself.
| Metric | Figure |
|---|---|
| BTC Purchased (Latest) | 24,869 BTC |
| Amount Spent | $2.01 billion |
| Avg. Price (Latest Buy) | $80,985 per BTC |
| Total BTC Holdings | 843,738 BTC |
| Total Cost Basis | $63.87 billion |
| Overall Avg. Buy Price | $75,700 per BTC |
| BTC Yield YTD 2026 | 12.6% |
At the time of writing, Bitcoin was hovering around $77,200. While that is below the $80,985 per coin Strategy paid in the latest batch, it remains comfortably above the $75,700 average across its entire reserve, keeping the overall position profitable on a cost basis.
This is also the second time in less than a month that Strategy has crossed the $2 billion mark in a single buying window. On April 20, the firm spent $2.54 billion to acquire 34,164 BTC, its third-largest single purchase on record, which also pushed its holdings past BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust for the first time in the spot ETF era.
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How Strategy Raised Over $2 Billion to Fund This Buy
The money behind this purchase came from two sources, with STRC preferred stock doing the heavy lifting. Between May 11 and May 17, Strategy sold 19.52 million STRC preferred shares, generating $1.95 billion in net proceeds.
An additional 430,344 shares of MSTR common stock were sold during the same period, raising another $83.7 million. Combined total proceeds reached $2.03 billion, almost all of which was immediately deployed into Bitcoin.
STRC, Strategy’s Variable Rate Series A Perpetual Stretch Preferred Stock, currently offers an annualized dividend yield of 11.5%, and it has become the primary financial engine behind the firm’s Bitcoin accumulation in 2026.
Analysts at K33 have noted that strong investor demand for STRC appears to be creating a recurring mid-month buying cycle. The pattern works like this: Strategy issues new STRC shares, collects proceeds, and then buys Bitcoin ahead of the monthly ex-dividend date on the 15th of each month.
- Strategy sold 19.52 million STRC shares raising $1.95 billion in net proceeds
- An additional 430,344 MSTR common stock shares raised $83.7 million
- The full $2.03 billion was deployed into 24,869 BTC at $80,985 per coin
- The firm still has $17.5 billion in remaining STRC issuance capacity available
The scale of this raise becomes even more remarkable when you look at the week before. On May 11, Strategy bought just 535 BTC for $43 million. The latest weekly purchase is roughly 47 times larger. That kind of acceleration shows how quickly the STRC capital machine can be switched on.
Saylor’s “Big Dot Energy” Post Was a Dead Giveaway
The crypto community had been on alert since Sunday. On May 17, Michael Saylor posted his now-famous orange dot accumulation chart on X with a three-word caption that said everything: “Big Dot Energy.”
The chart, sourced from StrategyTracker.com, maps every Bitcoin purchase Strategy has made over the past six years, with each orange dot representing a separate acquisition and the size of the dot reflecting the scale of the buy.
When Saylor posts this chart, a major purchase announcement almost always follows within 24 hours. It has become one of the most closely watched social media signals in the entire crypto market, with traders and analysts parsing the size and placement of each dot for clues about what is coming next.
This time, the dots did not lie. Less than one day after the post, one of the largest Bitcoin buys of 2026 was officially confirmed through an SEC Form 8-K filing. Strategy’s CEO Phong Lee also noted in an X post that the company recorded a year-to-date BTC Gain of $6.6 billion, adding that digital credit instruments are helping Strategy deliver faster growth in 2026 than it did in all of 2025.
BlackRock Loads Up on MSTR Even as the Stock Slips
MSTR shares fell 2.51% to $172.97 in Monday’s premarket session, extending a slide that saw the stock close at $177.42 on Friday after dropping 5.11% in a single day. On a weekly basis, MSTR lost approximately 5.4% despite hitting an intra-week high of $197.00 earlier in the five-day stretch.
The dip is notable because Bitcoin itself was down modestly from Friday’s levels. Strategy’s stock tends to amplify Bitcoin’s moves because of the sheer size of the company’s BTC treasury, making it one of the most volatile large-cap names on US exchanges. MSTR stock has still gained 14% year to date in 2026, while Bitcoin is down over 11% in the same period.
What is turning heads is that BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, took the dip as a buying opportunity. BlackRock acquired an additional 3.14 million MSTR shares at a cost of $535.6 million, raising its total stake to 17.75 million shares valued at approximately $3.02 billion. That represents a 21.5% increase in BlackRock’s position in Strategy.
When one of the most powerful institutional investors on the planet is buying more of a stock that just dropped 5%, that is a signal the market cannot ignore. It also reinforces Strategy’s growing status as the go-to vehicle for institutions that want leveraged exposure to Bitcoin without managing the underlying asset directly.
Strategy now holds close to 4% of Bitcoin’s total fixed supply of 21 million coins. JPMorgan analysts have projected the company could purchase as much as $30 billion worth of Bitcoin in 2026 if it maintains its current buying pace. At roughly 20,000 BTC per month, some analysts estimate Strategy could reach the symbolic one million BTC milestone by late 2026, a figure that would represent nearly 5% of everything Bitcoin will ever produce.
Strategy has gone from a business intelligence software company to the single largest corporate Bitcoin holder on the planet, and every week Saylor posts that orange dot chart, the world watches to see just how high he is willing to go. With $17.5 billion in STRC issuance capacity still available and an institutional giant like BlackRock standing behind the stock, the answer may be higher than most people expected. Whether this bold, all-in strategy proves to be visionary or reckless depends entirely on where Bitcoin goes from here, and that is the question keeping every investor up at night.
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