Strategy Pauses Bitcoin Buying, Repurchases $205M in STRC
Strategy made no Bitcoin purchases or sales in the week ended October 25, ending a five-week buying streak. Its Bitcoin holdings remained at 848,517 BTC, acquired for $64.02 billion at an average price of about $75,446 per coin. The company also made no sales through its at-the-market share programme.
Instead, Strategy used $204.9 million in USD Cash to repurchase 2,068,459 STRC preferred shares. As of October 25, it held $242.4 million in USD Cash and a separate $4.83 billion reserve for preferred dividends and debt interest; $956.8 million remained under its STRC repurchase authorisation. The filing did not explain the Bitcoin buying pause or say when purchases might resume. The shift in capital allocation is relevant to Bitcoin traders, but does not alone signal a change in Strategy’s longer-term Bitcoin strategy.
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The pause removes a source of recurring corporate demand for Bitcoin in the near term, and traders may interpret the end of Strategy’s five-week buying streak as a modest negative signal. However, Strategy did not sell any BTC, and its holdings remain substantial. The company did not explain the pause or announce a change to its longer-term approach, so the news does not establish a lasting reduction in demand. In the short term, BTC price effects are likely to depend more on broader market flows and sentiment; over the longer term, the filing alone offers little evidence of a change in Bitcoin’s market outlook.