Strategy reports an aggregate acquisition cost of about $63.97 billion and an average purchase price of $75,440.70. At $85,179, its stash sits roughly $8.26 billion above that reported cost—a rebound after being underwater earlier this year as the price of bitcoin tumbled.
Bitcoin Behemoths Strategy and IBIT Amass 1.65 Million BTC Worth $140B
Strategy reports an aggregate acquisition cost of about $63.97 billion and an average purchase price of $75,440.70. At $85,179, its stash sits roughly $8.26 billion above that reported cost—a rebound after being underwater earlier this…
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Oct 5, 2026 at 9:52 PM UTC · 4 min read

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$8.26B Strategy gain above cost
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BTC-0.78%$81,413
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IBIT’s number comes with a twist. Blackrock’s ETF cache of 805,222.42 $BTC is enormous, but it isn’t a record. The trust topped 806,000 $BTC earlier this year in April and held 805,466.7097 $BTC on Oct. 13, 2025. Today’s balance is therefore close to its historical high-water mark without actually setting one.
Together, Strategy and IBIT control 1,653,222.42 $BTC, equal to roughly 7.87% of Bitcoin’s theoretical 21 million maximum supply. Strategy is only about 5.3% larger than IBIT by coin count. With Bitcoin becoming scarcer by the day, these two behemoths represent an extremely large share of $BTC’s supply.
IBIT’s Bitcoin Isn’t Blackrock’s Corporate Treasury
Calling the 805,222 $BTC “Blackrock’s bitcoin” works as shorthand, but technically misses an important distinction. IBIT is a Delaware statutory trust whose investors own shares representing fractional beneficial interests in its net assets. The trust owns the bitcoin. Blackrock doesn’t hold those coins as a corporate treasury asset the way Strategy does.
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$20.2B
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