Strategy Just Stopped Bitcoin News: Is the Market’s Biggest Corporate Bid Gone for Good?

In the latest Bitcoin news, Strategy held its bitcoin position flat at 840,447 BTC through the week ended Aug. 16, according to a Form 8-K the company filed with the U.S.

Securities and Exchange Commission, while its dollar reserve climbed to $4.8 billion.The larger question isn’t whether Strategy still owns bitcoin, it does, at an average cost of $75,385 per coin, it’s whether the market can absorb weakness without the recurring corporate bid that shaped price action for years.Discover: Everyone’s Got a Take.

Get Free $25 from Kalshi to Actually Trade YoursA Predictable Buyer Goes QuietStrategy made no bitcoin purchases or sales between Aug. 10 and Aug. 16, the filing confirmed.

That silence follows a stretch in which the company sold 1,690 BTC for $108.6 million the prior week, redirecting proceeds toward its preferred-stock obligations rather than adding to its core position.Instead of buying bitcoin, Strategy sold 3,458,866 MSTR shares through its at-the-market program for $333.7 million in net proceeds.