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Strategy Drops $2B on Bitcoin in One Week | CoinDesk Daily

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🗓️ 18 May 2026

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Strategy spent $2B on Bitcoin last week. Strategy purchased 24,869 bitcoin last week for roughly $2 billion at an average price of $80,985 per coin, bringing its total holdings to 843,738 BTC at an aggregate cost of $64 billion. The purchase was funded almost entirely through sales of its STRC preferred stock. CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie hosts "CoinDesk Daily." - This episode was hosted by Sam Ewen. “CoinDesk Daily” is produced by Jennifer Sanasie and edited by Victor Chen.

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0:00.0

Strategy bought 2 billion of BTC last week, and SpaceX went live on Hyperliquid.

0:10.0

Strategy added 24,869 Bitcoin last week, spending roughly $2 billion at an average price of almost $81,000 per coin.

0:20.2

The buy brings its total holdings to $843,738 Bitcoin

0:25.2

at an aggregate cost of $64 billion.

0:28.9

The purchase was funded almost entirely through sales of Strategies' STRC preferred stock.

0:34.9

Trade XYZ launched a pre-IPO perpetual futures contract on SpaceX's implied

0:40.1

stock price on hyperliquid. The contract, SPCX, opened at a reference price of $150, with an implied

0:47.5

valuation of $1.78 trillion in line with SpaceX's public offering target. It quickly spiked to $216, drawing 33 million

0:57.2

in first session volume. SPCX is a synthetic perpetual, so no actual SpaceX shares change hands.

1:05.0

Former OpenAII. Researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner more than doubled his equity exposure in

1:10.2

the first quarter, growing from

1:11.9

$5.5 billion to $13.67 billion. His largest long positions focus on Bitcoin miners and other

1:18.8

firms supplying electricity, data center capacity, and compute infrastructure for AI. At the same time,

1:25.8

Oshenbrenner opened 7.46 billion input options

1:29.1

against major firms, including

1:31.1

Invidia, Oracle, and Broadcom.

1:33.5

I'm Sam Ewan. Get more updates on coin desk.com.

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