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Strategy may have paused bitcoin accumulation last week, ending a thirteen week buying streak

By James Van Straten · Published March 29, 2026 · 3 min read · Source: CoinDesk
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Strategy may have paused bitcoin accumulation last week, ending a thirteen week buying streak

The company seemed to have skipped it's weekly bitcoin purchase announcement for the first time since late december.

By James Van Straten|Edited by Aoyon Ashraf Mar 29, 2026, 6:31 p.m. Make preferred on
Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor standing. (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk))

What to know:

Strategy (MSTR), the largest publicly traded holder of bitcoin, did not seem to have increased its BTC position last week.

Executive Chairman Michael Saylor usually signals upcoming purchases on X each Sunday, followed by a detailed update around 8 a.m. ET on Monday. There was no customary Sunday “Orange Dot” post to signal a purchase. Instead, Michael Saylor posted about the company’s perpetual preferred equity offering, Stretch (STRC) instead.

The apparent pause snaps a streak of roughly thirteen consecutive weekly purchases that began in late December, acquiring 90,831 BTC in the process.

According to the company’s dashboard, the Tysons Corner, Virginia-based firm currently holds 762,099 bitcoin at an average acquisition price of $75,694 per token.

The break in buying activity comes with MSTR still trading about 76% below its all-time high and bitcoin below $67,000.

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