The shares will accumulate cumulative dividends at a fixed rate of 10% each year
\nStrategy said that dividend payments will begin paying out on June 30, 2025
\nTo date, Strategy holds under 500k Bitcoin, valued at over $40 billion<\/p>\n
Strategy is planning to offer five million shares of the company\u2019s Series A perpetual strife preferred stock, $STRF, as it works on acquiring more Bitcoin.<\/p>\n
In an announcement<\/a>, Michael Saylor\u2019s<\/a> Strategy said it intends to use the proceeds for \u201cgeneral corporate purposes,\u201d including the \u201cacquisition of Bitcoin.\u201d However, it noted that this was \u201csubject to market, and other conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n According to the company, the shares will accumulate cumulative dividends at a fixed rate of 10% per year. Dividends will be paid out beginning on June 30, 2025 \u201cout of funds legally available for their payment,\u201d Strategy said.<\/p>\n The news comes as Strategy announced earlier this month that it\u2019s planning to issue and sell shares of up to $21 billion in its at-the-market (ATM) program<\/a>.<\/p>\n Through selling shares of its 8.00% Series A perpetual strike preferred stock, $STRK, Strategy said the additional capital will be used for general corporate operations, including the purchase of more Bitcoin.<\/p>\n The latest news also follows a recent Bitcoin purchase Strategy made in an announcement yesterday. In a post on X<\/a>, Saylor said it had acquired 130 Bitcoin for $10.7 million at an average price of $82,981 per Bitcoin.<\/p>\n Strategy has acquired 130 BTC for ~$10.7M at ~$82,981 per bitcoin and has achieved BTC Yield of 6.9% YTD 2025. As of 3\/16\/2025, we hodl 499,226 $BTC<\/a> acquired for ~$33.1 billion at ~$66,360 per bitcoin. $MSTR<\/a> $STRK<\/a> https:\/\/t.co\/8xRmR8vlIt<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Michael Saylor\u26a1\ufe0f (@saylor) March 17, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n\n To date, Strategy now holds 499,226 Bitcoin, valued at $40.92 billion, according to SaylorTracker.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n Peter Schiff, a long-time opponent of Bitcoin, commented on Saylor\u2019s tweet, saying: \u201cIs that all you bought?\u00a0 Seems like you are running out of fire power.\u201d<\/p>\n Is that all you bought? Seems like you are running out of fire power.<\/p>\n \u2014 Peter Schiff (@PeterSchiff) March 17, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n\n News of Strategy\u2019s recent Bitcoin purchase and its share offering comes as crypto prices across the market have seen a sharp decline.<\/p>\n At the time of publishing, Bitcoin is trading around $81,000, a substantial drop from its all-time high of $109,000<\/a> reached in January ahead of US President Donald Trump\u2019s inauguration.<\/p>\n Market conditions<\/a> and geopolitical issues<\/a> continue to impact prices despite Trump signing an executive order in March to create a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve<\/a>.<\/p>\n The post Strategy plans to offer five million shares with new preferred stock to purchase additional Bitcoin<\/a> appeared first on CoinJournal<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The shares will accumulate cumulative dividends at a fixed rate of 10% each year Strategy said that dividend payments will begin paying out on June 30, 2025 To date, Strategy holds under 500k Bitcoin, valued at over $40 billion Strategy is planning to offer five million shares of the company\u2019s Series A perpetual strife preferred […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2720","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Raising funds for Bitcoin<\/h2>\n
Crypto prices decline<\/h2>\n