Strategy Is Green Again — Saylor’s Bitcoin Bet Just Flipped Back Into Profit

April 17, 2026 8:23 am Comments

For about 72 hours earlier this week, the loudest bull in Bitcoin was sitting on a paper loss. That moment is over.

As BTC ripped back above $76,000 on Thursday, Michael Saylor’s Strategy — the rebranded MicroStrategy — flipped from red to green on its entire 780,897-coin Bitcoin stack. Average cost: $75,577. Every coin above that line is profit again. And Saylor, never one to stay quiet when the chart cooperates, wasted no time reminding the world what his playbook is.

“$MSTR is Amplified Bitcoin.” That’s the whole thesis in three words. When BTC moves up, MSTR moves up harder — and when it slides, MSTR takes it on the chin. For the last week it was the second one. Now the first one is back.

A $1 Billion Buy Right Into The Dip

What actually flipped the position wasn’t just price action — it was Saylor buying the dip with both hands. Strategy dropped another billion dollars into Bitcoin this week, scooping up 13,927 BTC at an average price of $71,902. According to 24/7 Wall St., the purchase was funded entirely through STRC preferred share issuance — meaning no new MSTR common shares were created, and no existing shareholders got diluted to fund it.

Strategy now holds 780,897 BTC purchased for approximately $59.02 billion at an average price of $75,577 per Bitcoin… The latest acquisition of 13,927 BTC was funded entirely through the issuance of STRC preferred shares, which raised roughly $1 billion. This approach avoided any dilution of MSTR common stockholders.

That matters. Critics have spent the last two years warning that Saylor’s BTC flywheel — issue paper, buy Bitcoin, ride the leverage — would eventually cannibalize common shareholders. This buy is the counter-argument in real time: a full billion dollars of new exposure, zero MSTR dilution, and the treasury flips back to green days later.

The PPI Shock That Set It Up

The rebound didn’t happen in a vacuum. Wholesale inflation came in shockingly cool — March PPI printed at 0.5% versus the 1.1% analysts were expecting. Risk assets ripped. Bitcoin cleared $76,038. MSTR itself jumped nearly 7% on the session, closing at $141.58.

Per CoinCentral, Strategy is now closing in on a psychological milestone that would have sounded absurd a year ago: 800,000 BTC on the balance sheet of a single public company.

With this latest purchase, Strategy now controls nearly 800,000 BTC — a figure that puts it on a trajectory toward its publicly stated goal of one million Bitcoin by the end of 2026. The company still has roughly $21.6 billion of STRC preferred capacity and $27.1 billion of MSTR equity authorized for future purchases.

Do that math for a second. Strategy has around $48.7 billion in dry powder already approved — more than three-quarters of what they’ve spent so far. If they deploy it the way they’ve been deploying the last three tranches, the one-million-coin target isn’t an if, it’s a when.

The Cointelegraph Call

The moment the treasury crossed back above cost, crypto-Twitter called it in real time.

That’s the flex. A week ago, every MSTR bear was calling time of death on the Saylor trade. Now Bitcoin is back above the blended cost basis, Strategy is green on the entire stack, and the company is sitting on tens of billions of authorized capacity to keep stacking.

There’s a reason Saylor posts charts instead of apologies. The volatility is the feature, not the bug — and every drawdown has, so far, ended with Strategy holding more Bitcoin at a lower average cost than the cycle before. Thursday’s print just reminded everyone of that.

Green again. And if the next STRC tranche clears the way the last one did, the 800,000-coin headline is probably only weeks away.

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