Saylor Cheers Strive’s $280 Million Bitcoin Buy While Strategy Bought 85% Less

Strive (NASDAQ:ASST) bought 3,311 Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) for $280 million last week, its largest purchase since January, while Strategy’s (NASDAQ:MSTR) own buying pace has dropped roughly 85%.

What Strive Actually Bought

Strive disclosed in a Tuesday 8-K filing that it added 3,311 BTC between Oct. 5 and Oct. 9, lifting total holdings to 32,773 BTC at an average price near $84,500 per coin.

Strive CEO Matt Cole posted on X that the purchase also included $208 million in exercised warrants, with roughly 15.3 million warrants left to expire the same day. 

He added that SATA’s $100 minimum issuance price is now written directly into the company’s governing documents, formalizing a protection that previously existed only as policy.

Strategy’s Michael Saylor reacted on X with a simple line: “₿ig strides.”

The purchase marks Strive’s biggest single-week Bitcoin addition since January, when it picked up roughly 5,048 BTC through its all-stock merger with Semler Scientific. 

Here’s where that puts Strive among the largest public Bitcoin holders:

Cole has publicly stated his goal of ending 2026 as the world’s second-largest public Bitcoin holder. Strive still trails Metaplanet by 11,227 BTC, worth roughly $937.5 million.