Did Michael Saylor take a break from buying Bitcoin? And conflict in the Middle East continues.

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slash coin desk. For the first time, in over three

months, strategy did not announce a new Bitcoin purchase this past week. Chairman Michael

Saylor typically signals upcoming buys with an orange dot post on X each Sunday, followed by a formal

Monday morning announcement. This week, however, he only posted about the company's new

perpetual preferred equity offering stretch.

The pause ends a 13-week buying streak that began in late December, during which the company acquired nearly 91,000 Bitcoin.

Strategy currently holds 762,099 Bitcoin at an average acquisition price of just over $75,600.

The war in the Middle East is expanding and escalating.

Geopolitical headlines sent Bitcoin tumbling down to around $65,000, its lowest level

since the February crash.

The overnight panic was triggered by multiple events simultaneously.

Iran-backed two Titi forces officially entered the conflict,

and additional U.S. troops have arrived in the region. Reports also indicate that President Trump

is weighing a military operation to remove enriched uranium from the country. With inflation pressures

expanding from energy directly into industrial supply chains, the Federal Reserve's timeline

for potential rate cuts

just got pushed even further into the distance. The CME Fed Watch shows the 96.4% chance that

the central bank will keep rates steady in the upcoming meeting at the end of April. And the Canadian

government is moving to ban crypto donations and political campaigns. The newly introduced Strong and Free

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