Strategy has made yet another Bitcoin purchase, this one being announced as global tensions weigh heavy on the cryptocurrency market.
With this $26 million acquisition, Strategy has added another 245 BTC to its holdings. This is the fourth buy that the company has made this month, although it’s the smallest of the bunch. The last purchase, announced on June 16th, was a particularly big one involving a sum surpassing $1 billion.
Following the buying spree in June so far, the total reserve of Strategy now sits at 592,345 BTC. The firm put together this stack for $41.87 billion, but today it’s worth a whopping $61 billion, implying a significant profit of almost 46%.
According to the SEC filing, the company made the latest purchase between June 16th and 22nd. Thus, it seems the company decided to buy more, despite tensions rising between Israel and Iran during the period.
The past day or so has been a wild time for the cryptocurrency market, induced by escalating tensions in the middle east following US strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities.
Below is a chart that shows how Bitcoin’s recent performance has looked.
As is visible in the graph, the Bitcoin price plummeted hard all the way down toward the $98,000 level as panic selling ensued, but before long, the coin found a rebound. Now, the asset’s back at $102,800, which is about the same level as before the crash.
Additionally, it has also applied two separate filters: one corresponding to bearish calls (‘lower’ or ‘below’) and another to bullish calls (‘higher’ or ‘above’). From the graph, it’s apparent that the former type of posts blew up following the US strikes, indicating FUD exploded among the retail investors.
Generally, Bitcoin and other digital assets tend to move in a direction that goes against the expectations of the crowd and that’s indeed what seems to have occurred this time as well.
