In 2020 Michael Saylor publicly stated on X that he has 17,732 BTC and he continuously accumulating Bitcoin.
I doubt very much that you can back up what you say. In a recent interview he was asked how many bitcoins he owns as of today and he replied "at least that much", referring to the 2020 figure. We can't know for sure if he has continued to accumulate personally but I would bet that, if he has bought more, they have not been very large purchases, as those bitcoins as of today are worth $1.6B, more than enough to live on, and focusing on his strategy in MSTR the stocks he owns are more profitable to him in that almost every week they have more exposure to bitcoin.
I understand that Saylor had not given too many specifics in regards to his personal holdings beyond what you said that he has at least as much if not more than what he had initially disclosed, yet there was a time in early 2024, that some of his MSTR stock options were to expire (around $216 million worth), and I believe that he said that he was buying bitcoin with some of that money...
https://decrypt.co/211626/michael-saylor-to-sell-216-million-in-microstrategy-stock-options-buy-more-bitcoinAnd yeah, does it matter? Probably not very much... I had frequently considered that Saylor might have had been able to add an additional 10k bitcoin or more to his personal stash, so I personally had speculated on more than one occasion that Saylor may well have around 30k bitcoin or more in his personal BTC stash.
In 2020 Michael Saylor publicly stated on X that he has 17,732 BTC and he continuously accumulating Bitcoin.
I doubt very much that you can back up what you say. In a recent interview he was asked how many bitcoins he owns as of today and he replied "at least that much", referring to the 2020 figure. We can't know for sure if he has continued to accumulate personally but I would bet that, if he has bought more, they have not been very large purchases, as those bitcoins as of today are worth $1.6B, more than enough to live on, and focusing on his strategy in MSTR the stocks he owns are more profitable to him in that almost every week they have more exposure to bitcoin.
I guess the only thing we can look forwards is he personally continue to accumulate since this is what his company did so far. Although we don't have a tracker that tracks personal portfolio of Michael Saylor but provably he's still bullish on current situation since the action made by his company would provably reflect also on his personal investment.
What interesting these day is there next accumulation and they are giving a hint base on what's has been written in this article
https://insidebitcoins.com/news/michael-saylor-hints-at-another-strategy-bitcoin-buy-as-btc-etf-demand-dwarfs-mining-outputWell with this things we can say that there's really huge demand coming on Bitcoin and this is great for all of us Bitcoin hodler's.
I thought that overall if Saylor is proclaiming that he wants to double the initial goal of $42 billion acquisition that he had proclaimed in October 2024, then surely he expects that his acquisition and abilities to continue to buy bitcoin with other people's money is going quite well, and so surely he might be able to reach 1 million bitcoin or more in the coming years (how long? I am not going to proclaim to know exactly, but within less than 4 years seems reasonably possible.. though surely bitcoins are likely going to continue to get more expensive for the purchasing of each one).
https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/1kesh9n/michael_saylors_strategy_unveils_84000000000/
Bitcoiners do not need to buy MSTR, since it does not matter if MSTR might trade higher than BTC. Owning BTC is way more powerful than owning stock of a company that owns BTC... Sure if you want to put 5% of your BTC holdings into something other than BTC, then that is your choice. It is not necessary to buy anything other than BTC, especially since MSTR is a derivative of BTC that depends upon BTC doing well for it to do well. If BTC does badly, then MSTR will also do badly.
Unless the person is looking for where to stack something aside from investing them in Bitcoin, but even as that, what difference does it make? As if it's because of risk reduction, the performance of MSTR is solely based on how Bitcoin performs, so instead of going for what's value is influenced by Bitcoin, why not go for the Bitcoin that influenced the value itself? Why be a slave when you have the opportunity to enjoy kingship privilege?
Sure, there may well be better returns than regular bitcoin, yet bitcoin remains such a great asset to hold, then it seems to me that there is no need to be adding additional risk onto an already great asset unless for some reason you or your institution is restricted in regards to holding the asset directly, such as pension plans, governments, institutions or even individuals who might have investment holdings (retirement related) that they are not authorized to hold themselves in the event that they want to retain the tax benefits of such holdings.
It is still unknown how many Bitcoins they will buy? And there are 553555 Bitcoin holdings in the past, we must wait for them to buy Bitcoin and add it to today's total holdings.
Before they got to half a million holdings, there were speculations that they would be targeting 500k bitcoin holdings,
That is ridiculous. We should already know by now (if not earlier) that Saylor is a bit of a lunatic, and he wants to get as many bitcoin as he is able to get.
but judging by the number they have reached now, maybe they are targeting a million bitcoin holdings.
Why do you need any particular number to proclaim that Saylor/MSTR is going to stop at that BTC accumulation point? They are never going to stop unless they are no longer able to continue to accumulate or perhaps they might make some mistakes in regards to their custody, yet I would imagine that they are even ongoingly considering the various risks involved with whatever custody arrangements that they have in order that they can keep attempting to improve their custody, too.
We never can be too sure. As for their total buying and holding as of the time of this post, they have
announced another purchase of 1,895 bitcoin, which has raised the number from 553,555 bitcoin down to 555,450 $BTC.
Even if they don't buy every single week, it is likely not news that they are buying every week and going to continue to buy, even if they might have a week or two in which they do not announce any BTC buys.
In 2020 Michael Saylor publicly stated on X that he has 17,732 BTC and he continuously accumulating Bitcoin.
2020 to date is about 5 years. It's absolute data, and since then he has not made any public statements about his personal holdings, so we can't consider such data valid even to the point of assuming he has continuously been buying personally, as we all know, which he displays publicly. He's more focused on raising the numbers in MSTR, which he owns a major share of.
Saylor has to make public disclosures about his MSTR strategies (since it is a public company). He does not have to disclose his personal holdings, even though it seems that he errored on the side of caution in regards to his having had bought BTC prior to MSTR in the first August 2020 MSTR purchase of BTC.