<p>MicroStrategy has made yet another addition to its growing stockpile of bitcoin.</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On Tuesday, the publicly traded company bought 229 BTC for $10 million at an average of roughly $44,000 per BTC, according to an </span><a href="https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1050446/000119312521164617/d167554d8k.htm"><span style="font-weight: 400;">8-K form filed</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> with the Securities and Exchange Commission. </span></p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">MicroStrategy has purchased an additional 229 bitcoins for $10.0 million in cash at an average price of ~$43,663 per <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/bitcoin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#bitcoin</a>. As of 5/18/2021, we <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/hodl?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#hodl</a> ~92,079 bitcoins acquired for ~$2.251 billion at an average price of ~24,450 per bitcoin. <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%24MSTR&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">$MSTR</a><a href="https://t.co/fU6LN4WbKI">https://t.co/fU6LN4WbKI</a></p> — Michael Saylor (@michael_saylor) <a href="https://twitter.com/michael_saylor/status/1394625128257007618?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 18, 2021</a></blockquote> <p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">MicroStrategy now owns 92,079 bitcoins worth $2.25 billion total for about $24,000 per BTC.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Virginia-based company has more than doubled its BTC holdings since </span><a href="https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/86769/microstrategy-discloses-new-50-million-bitcoin-buy"><span style="font-weight: 400;">December 4, 2020</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> when the company held about 41,000 BTC. In six months, the company purchased bitcoin lots worth </span><a href="https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/88699/microstrategy-purchases-another-29646-bitcoin-via-convertible-debt"><span style="font-weight: 400;">$650 million</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in late December, </span><a href="https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/92111/microstrategy-buys-additional-bitcoin-10-million-btc"><span style="font-weight: 400;">$10 million</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in January, twice in February for </span><a href="https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/93444/microstrategy-purchases-more-bitcoin-10-million"><span style="font-weight: 400;">$10 million</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for February 2 and </span><a href="https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/95923/microstrategy-buys-more-bitcoin-again"><span style="font-weight: 400;">$1.02 billion</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> three weeks later, and </span><a href="https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/98168/microstrategy-adds-more-bitcoin-march-again"><span style="font-weight: 400;">$15 million</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in March. </span></p> <p><iframe frameborder="0" height="420" src="https://embed.theblockcrypto.com/data/crypto-markets/public-companies/microstrategy-bitcoin-holdings/embed" title="MicroStrategy Bitcoin Holdings" width="100%"></iframe></p>