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Strive Just Hit 25,000 BTC, But the Financing Structure Is the Part Worth Understanding

Strive crossed 25,000 BTC last week after buying 469 Bitcoin between September 8 and 11 at an average price of 77,954 dollars, spending about 36.6 million dollars on that specific purchase. At current prices, the full stack is worth somewhere around 1.9 to 1.95 billion dollars, and that milestone puts Strive in fifth place among public companies globally by Bitcoin holdings, behind Strategy, Twenty One Capital, Metaplanet, and MARA.

What I find more interesting than the round number itself is how Strive is actually funding these purchases, and the pace at which they've been buying recently.

CEO Matt Cole disclosed that 100 percent of the capital for this latest 469 BTC purchase came from SATA, Strive's perpetual preferred stock, which crossed 1 billion dollars in notional value outstanding around the same time. This is a meaningfully different funding approach than diluting common shareholders through new stock issuance, Strive is essentially raising capital through preferred equity specifically to fund Bitcoin purchases, which keeps existing common shareholders from having their ownership stake diluted every time the company adds to its treasury.

Cole also flagged that the company's "amplification ratio," which Strive defines as notional preferred equity and debt measured against Bitcoin net asset value, rose to 53.5 percent. In plain terms, for every 100 dollars of Bitcoin sitting on Strive's balance sheet, the company now carries roughly 53.50 dollars in preferred obligations. That's a structural detail worth understanding if you're thinking about Strive stock itself rather than just the underlying Bitcoin, since it means common shareholders are getting leveraged exposure to Bitcoin's price, amplified gains if Bitcoin rises, but also amplified downside if it falls, similar in spirit to how Strategy's own capital structure works, just with different specific numbers.

The pace of accumulation is worth tracking too. This 469 BTC purchase was actually a sharp slowdown compared to the prior week, when Strive bought 1,375 BTC for about 109 million dollars, and before that, 1,800 BTC in late August. Cole has reportedly floated the idea that Strive could potentially climb to second place among public Bitcoin holders by year end, though he's been explicit that this isn't his base case expectation. To catch Twenty One Capital's current stack of 43,514 BTC, Strive would need to acquire roughly another 18,515 coins, which works out to needing to average around 1,234 BTC per week for the remaining 15 weeks of the year, assuming Twenty One doesn't add to its own position in the meantime. Given the most recent week's pace of just 469 BTC, that target looks genuinely ambitious right now, though the pace has clearly been uneven rather than steady, so a slower week doesn't necessarily rule out faster weeks ahead.

On whether Strive hinted at another purchase specifically, I want to be careful here, what I can confirm is the pattern of consistent, near-weekly accumulation and the company's stated intent to keep growing its position, rather than a specific new announcement beyond what's already been disclosed in the September 14 filing.

How I'd think about this kind of corporate accumulation more broadly, it's part of a now-familiar playbook, several public companies are competing to build the largest possible Bitcoin treasury, often financed through creative capital structures like preferred stock rather than straightforward cash purchases. This adds a layer of ongoing demand for BTC that's somewhat separate from retail or even ETF-driven demand, corporate treasuries buying on a schedule tied to their own capital raising activity rather than reacting purely to price momentum.

Not financial advice. Always do your own research before making any trading or investment decision.

Here is the question for discussion: do you see this kind of leveraged corporate accumulation as a genuinely bullish structural demand source for BTC, or does the added preferred stock and debt layered underneath make you more cautious about how these companies would perform in a sharp downturn?