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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

Bitcoin Behemoths Strategy and IBIT Amass 1.65 Million BTC Worth $140B
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$8.26B Strategy gain above cost

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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 holding stats based on Oct. 5, 2026, filings from both Blackrock and Strategy.

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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