Strive, a Dallas-based bitcoin treasury company co-founded by Vivek Ramaswamy, bought 124 BTC for about $10 million at an average of $80,526 per bitcoin between Oct. 24 and Oct. 30. Its holdings rose to 43,124 BTC, worth roughly $3.3 billion, leaving it fourth among public companies, 390 BTC behind Twenty One Capital and 876 BTC behind Metaplanet. Most of the purchase was funded from existing cash, and Strive raised money for the first time by selling its SATS preferred stock. Strategy, led by Michael Saylor, holds 849,327 BTC, nearly 20 times Strive's total. With bitcoin at about $77,000, the holdings are now worth slightly less than what Strive paid.
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