{"id":128622,"date":"2025-05-05T14:17:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T14:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=128622"},"modified":"2025-05-05T14:17:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T14:17:26","slug":"strategy-semler-bag-2k-bitcoin-as-price-edged-toward-100k-last-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=128622","title":{"rendered":"Strategy, Semler bag 2K Bitcoin as price edged toward $100K last week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsMichael Saylor\u2019s Strategy, one of the world\u2019s largest corporate Bitcoin investors, slowed its BTC purchases last week as the cryptocurrency briefly surged above $97,000.<br \/>\nStrategy acquired 1,895 Bitcoin (BTC) for $180.3 million during the week from April 28 to May 4 at an average price of $95,167 per BTC, the firm announced in its latest Form-8 filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.<br \/>\nStrategy\u2019s latest Bitcoin purchase is one of the smallest made by the company this year, alongside a comparatively meagre 130 BTC purchase in March.<br \/>\nSource: Michael SaylorThe latest buy is 87% less than the previous purchase of 15,355 BTC announced last Monday.<br \/>\nSemler boosts buying despite rising prices<br \/>\nWhile Saylor\u2019s Strategy cooled its Bitcoin buying spree last week, others upped their appetite for BTC.<br \/>\nSemler Scientific, a publicly traded US healthtech firm, bought 167 Bitcoin for $16.2 million in the period from April 30 to May 2 at an average purchase price of $97,093 BTC.<br \/>\nAnnounced on May 5, the purchase by Semler was up at least 50% from the previous 111 BTC purchase by the firm announced on April 25.<br \/>\nBitcoin price chart in the past 30 days. Source: CoinGeckoAs of May 2, Semler held 3,634 BTC, acquired for an aggregate of $322.3 million at an average purchase price of $88,668 per BTC.<br \/>\nSemler\u2019s Bitcoin holdings are considerably smaller than Strategy\u2019s, which held 555,450 BTC as of May 4, acquired for $68,550 per BTC.<br \/>\nStrategy\u2019s BTC gain surged to $5.8 billion by May 1<br \/>\nThe new Bitcoin purchase by Strategy came shortly after the company announced its financial results for the first quarter of 2025 on May 1.<br \/>\nAccording to the update, Strategy achieved a 13.7% BTC yield, an indicator representing the percentage change of the ratio between its BTC holdings and assumed diluted shares. The yield is close to the 15% yield targeted by Strategy in 2025.<br \/>\nSource: Michael SaylorYear to date, Strategy\u2019s gains on its Bitcoin investments also reached $5.8 billion, in line with its annual target of $10 billion.<br \/>\nAdditionally, Saylor said that the company has doubled its capital plan to $42 billion in equity and $42 billion in fixed income to purchase more Bitcoin.<br \/>\nMagazine: Crypto wanted to overthrow banks, now it\u2019s becoming them in stablecoin fight<a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/strategy-semler-buy-2000-bitcoin-price-tested-97000-last-week?utm_source=rss_feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsMichael Saylor\u2019s Strategy, one of the world\u2019s largest corporate Bitcoin investors, slowed its BTC purchases last week as the cryptocurrency briefly surged above $97,000. Strategy acquired 1,895 Bitcoin&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128622"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}