Strategy’s Michael Saylor signals impending Bitcoin purchase

Strategy co-founder Michael Saylor posted the BitcoinBTC$104,788BitcoinChange (24h)0.12%Market Cap$2.08TVolume (24h)$22.87BView Morechart signaling an impending BTC acquisition by the company, marking week eight of consecutive purchases by the company during this latest buying stint.

“Orange is my preferred color,” Saylorwroteto his 4.4 million followers on X — a number that has been steadily growing over the past two years as the Strategy co-founder commands increased media attention due to the company’s corporate treasury plan.

The company’smost recent Bitcoin acquisitionon May 26 of 4,020 BTC, valued at roughly $427 million at the time of purchase, brought Strategy’s total holdings to 580,250 BTC.

According todatafrom Bitcoin Treasuries, this makes Strategy the single largest known Bitcoin holder, with the company’s BTC holdings dwarfing the amount of BTC held by the US and Chinese governments combined.

Strategy has become synonymous with Bitcoin, with many traders seeing it as a proxy bet for the digital asset.

The company’s rapid accumulation of BTC is alreadyaltering market dynamics, according to CrytoQuant analyst Ki Young Ju. Institutional buying could alsotrigger a supply shock, sending BTC prices higher, executives from crypto-native Sygnum Bank told Cointelegraph.

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Debate erupts over Strategy’s Bitcoin proof of reserves

Strategy has beencharacterizedas anemerging financial superpowerby authors like Adam Livingston. However, not all investors are convinced by Strategy’s reported Bitcoin accumulation numbers.

A growing number of market participants have voiced criticisms and suspicions that Strategy does not have the Bitcoin it purports to have in its corporate treasury, citing a lack of regular proof of reserve audits.

One individualrespondedto Saylor’s impending acquisition post by asking: “No proof of reserves is your preferred ‘trust me bro.’ When mempool? Or [are you] too scared to show that you do not have Bitcoin, but instead paper Bitcoin?”

The Strategy co-founder argues thatproof of reserve audits are riskyfor large enterprises and institutions because they open up the institutions’ wallets to tracking and unwanted attention from potential threat actors.

This high degree of transparency inherent in public blockchains is often cited by industry professionals and business leaders as one of themain impediments to institutionsputting their business operations onchain.

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