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According to Coinmarketcap data, at 7:55 AM on December 26, 2024 (Vietnam time), the price of Bitcoin was trading at $99,948, an increase of 0.5% in the last 24 hours. The trading volume of the largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization was $34.7 billion.

Recently, MicroStrategy announced that it purchased 5,262 Bitcoin for a total of $561 million during a week when Bitcoin prices dropped significantly. Thus, the total holdings of this "whale" have increased to 444,262 Bitcoin, equivalent to $42.2 billion.

Executive Chairman Michael Saylor stated that the average price of this transaction was $106,622 per coin. When considering the total Bitcoin reserves they currently hold, the average cost is $62,257 per unit.

This information was released on the same day MicroStrategy began trading as a member of the Nasdaq 100 index. The stock price remained relatively unchanged at over $364.2.

MicroStrategy was established 35 years ago and has mostly operated in the software sector. Last year, the company's stock rose by 337%, making it one of the strongest in the US among companies with a market capitalization of $5 billion or more. This increase even surpassed that of Nvidia and Meta due to the Bitcoin reserve strategy.