More than 4% of all Bitcoin is owned by just one US company alone after billions of dollars' worth of purchases

Published on May 22, 2026 at 2:11 AM (UTC+4)
by Author Daisy Edwards
Last updated on May 22, 2026 at 2:11 AM (UTC+4) · Edited by Mason Jones
More than 4% of all Bitcoin is owned by just one US company alone after billions of dollars' worth of purchases
More than 4% of all Bitcoin is owned by just one US company alone after billions of dollars' worth of purchases

After years of gigantic crypto buying sprees, it was revealed that more than four percent of all Bitcoin is now reportedly owned by a single US company.

The company has spent billions of dollars stacking up Bitcoin and just made another massive purchase worth over $2 billion.

After the latest buy, the corporation now owns a staggering 843,738 BTC in total.

Considering there will only ever be 21 million Bitcoin created, that means one company alone now controls more than four percent of the entire crypto supply.

One company alone owns a heck of a lot of Bitcoin

Business intelligence firm Strategy, formerly known as MicroStrategy, first started aggressively buying Bitcoin back in 2020.

Since then, it’s turned itself into one of the biggest crypto believers on the planet.

According to reports, Strategy recently purchased another 24,869 BTC at an average price of $80,985 per coin.

The company’s total crypto stash is now believed to be worth around $64.6 billion depending on Bitcoin’s constantly changing price.

The scale of the purchases has become so huge that some analysts have started questioning whether one company owning this much Bitcoin could eventually become risky for the wider crypto market.

Billions of dollars’ worth of crypto keep piling up

Bitcoin has gone from being almost worthless in its early days to becoming one of the most talked about financial assets in the world.

It even smashed past the $100,000 mark in late 2024 as demand for crypto exploded again.

That huge rise is exactly why companies like Strategy keep buying more and more of it despite the volatility.

The company’s reported average Bitcoin purchase price sits at around $66,384 per coin, meaning it is still sitting on enormous paper profits despite crypto’s dramatic price swings.

Other companies have also started following the same playbook by adding the infamous cryptocurrency to their corporate reserves instead of relying entirely on traditional cash holdings or even physical wealth like gold.

Still, plenty of people online think it feels strange that something designed to be decentralized now has such a massive chunk controlled by one company alone.

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