{"id":9054,"date":"2025-07-22T19:29:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T16:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/22\/its-monday-morning-saylor-and-trump-bought-2-7b-btc\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T19:29:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T16:29:34","slug":"its-monday-morning-saylor-and-trump-bought-2-7b-btc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/22\/its-monday-morning-saylor-and-trump-bought-2-7b-btc\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Monday morning \u2014 Saylor and Trump bought $2.7B BTC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p>This morning, Donald Trump\u2019s Trump Media and Technology Group (DJT) and Michael Saylor\u2019s MicroStrategy (MSTR) announced corporate purchases exceeding $2.7 billion worth of bitcoin (BTC). <\/p>\n<p>Saylor\u2019s purchases are solely spot BTC, while Trump\u2019s include both spot BTC and \u201cbitcoin-related securities\u201d without further clarification.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Saylor\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/saylor\/status\/1947266086627360854\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$739.8 million<\/a> and Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globenewswire.com\/news-release\/2025\/07\/21\/3118713\/0\/en\/Trump-Media-Announces-its-Purchases-for-Bitcoin-Treasury-Reach-2-Billion.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$2 billion<\/a> early morning purchase announcements, other public BTC treasury companies also announced acquisitions.<\/p>\n<p>Sequans Communications bought another <a href=\"https:\/\/sequans.com\/sequans-acquires-1264-additional-btc-and-now-holds-2317-btc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$150 million<\/a>, Vaultz Capital bought <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BitcoinForCorps\/status\/1947247823373644129\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$2 million<\/a>, The Blockchain Group bought <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/_ALTBG\/status\/1947176595225182702\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$2.5 million<\/a>, and The London BTC Company bought <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BitcoinForCorps\/status\/1947242247033922000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$2.5 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Strategy has acquired 6,220 BTC for ~$739.8 million at ~$118,940 per bitcoin and has achieved BTC Yield of 20.8% YTD 2025. As of 7\/20\/2025, we hodl 607,770 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24BTC&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$BTC<\/a> acquired for ~$43.61 billion at ~$71,756 per bitcoin. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24MSTR&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$MSTR<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24STRK&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$STRK<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24STRF&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$STRF<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24STRD&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$STRD<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8z5HygrDWs\">https:\/\/t.co\/8z5HygrDWs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Saylor (@saylor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/saylor\/status\/1947266086627360854?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 21, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Furthermore, Trump Media acquired an additional <strong>$300 million worth of options<\/strong> for BTC-related securities.<\/p>\n<p>All told, purchase announcements of BTC and BTC-related securities total $3.2 billion this morning. For context, these purchases were worth 0.14% of the circulating supply of BTC.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-protos wp-block-embed-protos\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"9MEbvZ2wDH\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/protos.com\/the-global-web-tied-to-microstrategys-71b-bitcoin-stash\/\">The global web tied to MicroStrategy\u2019s $71B bitcoin stash<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><em>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/protos.com\/how-bond-market-helped-push-btc-to-all-time-high\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How bond market helped push BTC to all-time high<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>There are over 150 public companies that have added BTC to their balance sheets.<\/p>\n<p>Saylor\u2019s company is by far the largest holder with 607,770 BTC or more than 3% of BTC\u2019s circulating supply.<\/p>\n<p>With this morning\u2019s announcement, Trump Media catapulted itself onto their leaderboard. Unlisted as recently as this weekend, <strong>it\u2019s now suddenly one of the 30 largest public BTC treasury companies<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Its stock opened for trading this morning 7% higher than Friday\u2019s close.<\/p>\n<p><em>Got a tip? Send us an email securely via <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/leaks.protos.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Protos Leaks<\/em><\/a><em>. For more informed news, follow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/protos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">X<\/a>, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/protos.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Bluesky<\/em><\/a><em>, and <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMLmroQsw0bW5Aw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Google News<\/em><\/a><em>, or subscribe to our <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/protosmedia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>YouTube<\/em><\/a><em> channel.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/protos.com\/its-monday-morning-saylor-and-trump-bought-2-7b-btc\/\">It\u2019s Monday morning \u2014 Saylor and Trump bought $2.7B BTC<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/protos.com\/\">Protos<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, Donald Trump\u2019s Trump Media and Technology Group (DJT) and Michael Saylor\u2019s MicroStrategy (MSTR) announced corporate purchases exceeding $2.7 billion worth of bitcoin (BTC). Saylor\u2019s purchases are solely spot BTC, while Trump\u2019s include both spot BTC and \u201cbitcoin-related securities\u201d without further clarification. In addition to Saylor\u2019s $739.8 million and Trump\u2019s $2 billion early morning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-invest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handoli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}