Strive and Strategy Strike Big as Bitcoin Surges to $85,000

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Strive Takes The Stack To 26,355

Holdings went from 25,000 to 26,355 after a 1,355-bitcoin add between September 14 and September 18. Average cost: about $79,475 a coin.

SATA carried the raise. Preferred shares outstanding increased by 786,194, to 11,184,160. Cash still rose, from $204.2 million to $229.6 million, and the 505,000-share STRC position did not move.

Strategy Taps The USD Reserve For Bitcoin And STRC

Strategy added 950 bitcoin for $75.7 million — $79,670 each — and the treasury now reads 846,000. No ATM. The larger check was preferred: 1,771,238 STRC shares retired for $174.0 million.

Both came out of the USD Reserve. Those balances now total $6.09 billion — $5.04 billion still marked as Reserve, $1.05 billion as USD Cash. The stack grew. Stretch shrank. Nothing new was issued.

Dishing Up Bitcoin Lunch — Presented by DDC

Every Bitcoin conference has panels. Bitcoin Treasuries Conference has those too. But this year, thanks to DDC Enterprise, it also has something most rooms full of CEOs and treasury execs never get: a table.

The host of Dishing Up Bitcoin — the world's first Bitcoin cooking show — will be in the building and will be joining as our Official Lunch Sponsor. 

A host of Bitcoin Treasuries Conference Speakers have cooked on the show. Mike Alfred, Adrian Morris, and more to come. To celebrate, DDC Enterprise is underwriting the main lunch service for every single attendee.

DDC is also putting real money behind something the industry still doesn't talk about enough — 25 fully-funded tickets for women seeking professional positions in our industry, sourced through our partners at Women in Blockchain, SheCrypto, and SheFi. Full floor access. Real seats.

That program is now closed, but our subscriber discount code — HODL — still gets you 20% off, but only until tomorrow.

After that it's full price, no exceptions, no extensions, and no second code coming to bail you out.

If food costs had your Bitcoin wallet concern, DDC has you covered. 

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Bitcoin's Real Yield Revealed

Speaker update: Neil Bergquist, CEO of Coinme, has been confirmed for the Bitcoin Treasuries Conference on September 28 in NYC.

Bergquist built the largest licensed cash-to-crypto network in the US — over 17,000 locations, no bank account required to buy Bitcoin. He's the person who put Bitcoin access into Coinstar kiosks nationwide, and he's now turning that same ambition to institutional finance.

His big reveal: he’s staking his reputation on helping the world’s largest treasuries put their BTC balance sheets to work. Find out more, only in New York.

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