The approach, formerly Microstrategy, the leading corporate holder of Bitcoin, gained nearly $ 765 million of Bitcoin last week. The purchase arrives as the company faces an action in class.
According to one May 19 announcementThe approach got 7,390 BTC for about $ 764.9 million at an average price at just under $ 103,500. The approach reported a Bitcoin’s yield of 16.3% year-to-date. Approach to Executive Chairman Michael Saylor who made his usual purchase hint on a May 18 x Post.
According to During a May 19 filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the company will also receive an action lawsuit. The suit accused the strategy officials who failed to represent the natural investment of Bitcoin.
Until May 18, the approach holds 576,230 acquired by BTC for $ 40.2 billion at an average price of $ 69,726 per coin. At current prices, the company’s total handling costs more than $ 59.2 billion, representing an uncertain benefit of $ 19.2 billion, or 47%.
According to CoinMarketCap DataBitcoin exchanged about $ 102,615 at the time of writing, up to 20.3% last month.
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Strategy that was hit by a lawsuit
In a recent SEC filing, the firm wrote that “a purported class-action lawsuit was filed in the US district court for the eastern Virginia district” against company executives. Strategy Chairman Michael Saylor, President and CEO Phong Le and Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Andrew Kang is all the defendants in the suit.
The strategy officials were accused of “violation of Section 10 (B) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, such as amended (the” Exchange Act “), and Rule 10B-5 there, and Section 20 (a) of the Exchange Act.” The states of filing:
“The (suits) whose named defendants have made false and/or false statements with respect and/or failed to reveal information with respect to the expected profitability of our Bitcoin -focused investment approach and Treasury operations, and the various risks associated with Bitcoin’s volatility.”
0xngmi, a pseudonymous developer on decentralized financial data platform, wrote on a May 19 x Post That he believes the lawsuit is unfounded. He explained that the suit was “apparently complaining (strategy) people who did not deduct how much money could be lost if the BTC dropped.” However, he argued that the risks were not understated:
“You are buying a company labeled yourself as” action in bitcoin, “what do you expect?”
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Corporate’s Bitcoin treasury is growing up
The Bitcoin treasury approach of approach inspired other companies to follow in its footsteps. Last week, sharing Luxury Watchmaker Top Win move forward by more than 60% to the premarket Trade after the company said it would adopt a approach to bitcoin accumulation and change its name to asiastrategy.
The Asiastrategy said that in order to implement its plan it cooperated with Sora Ventures, which previously cooperated with Metaplanet in 2024 to create Japan’s first corporate Bitcoin Treasury. Metaplanet Now holding more bitcoin than El Salvador. Also last week, a Listed Bahrain listed listed by catering company with $ 24.2 million market cap Adopted a Treasury approach of Bitcoin In collaboration with the investment firm 10x capital.
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