Strive, Inc. purchased 469 Bitcoin between September 8 and September 11, 2026, raising the company's total Bitcoin holdings to 25,000 BTC. The acquisition was disclosed in a Form 8-K filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on September 14, and it pushes Strive deeper into the group of public firms that keep Bitcoin on their balance sheets.

Strive holds Bitcoin as a corporate treasury asset, keeping it the way other companies hold cash or bonds. That playbook was popularized by Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy), which began buying Bitcoin for its own balance sheet in 2020 and has since been joined by a roster of publicly listed companies. The latest purchase adds to a stack Strive has built over several rounds this year: it previously reported buying 759 BTC in one corporate Bitcoin purchase and, in a separate round, 1,375 Bitcoin for approximately $109 million.

Strive buys 469 Bitcoin

According to its September 14 Form 8-K, the filing vehicle U.S. public companies use to disclose material events between periodic reports, Strive acquired the 469 BTC — Bitcoin being the largest cryptocurrency by market value — over the four-day window ending September 11, 2026.

The company paid an average of about $77,954 per Bitcoin, a figure that includes fees and expenses. Crypto.news reported the total cost at roughly $36.6 million, a rounded figure the filing itself does not state as an aggregate amount.

For comparison, Bitcoin traded near $78,779 at the time of this report, up about 1.9% over 24 hours. Strive's average acquisition price sits just below that current market level.

Strive Bitcoin holdings reach 25,000 BTC

After the purchase, Strive's Bitcoin holdings stood at 25,000 BTC as of September 11 2026. The 469 BTC is the newly added slice, while 25,000 BTC is the full stack. The filing shows holdings rose from 24,531 BTC as of September 4 to 25,000 BTC as of September 11 — a difference of exactly the 469 Bitcoin the company bought.

The filing also lists other assets around the purchase. Cash and cash equivalents were $204.2 million on September 11, up from $202.6 million a week earlier. Strive also held 505,000 shares of Strategy's STRC preferred stock, valued at $49.8 million on September 11 — an equity stake in Strategy itself, layered on top of the direct Bitcoin position.

Share counts shifted as well. Class A common shares outstanding rose by 34,206 to 85,730,853, while Class B shares stayed at 9,237,911. Preferred SATA shares outstanding grew by 402,541 to 10,397,966.

Crypto.news reported, according to unconfirmed reports, that the buy was funded by SATA proceeds rather than common-share sales. The filing does not state a funding source, and the Class A share count still increased during the period, so the two questions remain separate.

Strive reported 98,139,091 assumed fully diluted shares. That count deliberately excludes another 26,596,010 shares tied to traditional warrants, per the company's own definition.

How much did the purchase increase Strive's holdings?

The 469 Bitcoin represents about 1.88% of the 25,000 BTC total. In plain terms, the fresh purchase makes up a little under one fiftieth of everything Strive now holds.

Measured against the prior balance instead, the buy grew holdings by roughly 1.91%. That figure divides 469 by the implied earlier balance of 24,531 BTC, which assumes the reported numbers are exact and the purchase was the only change.

These are two different lenses. Share of the final total looks backward at what fraction of the stack is new; growth over the prior balance looks forward at how fast the holdings expanded.

Strive's purchase comes even as broader market mood sits at a "Greed" reading of 57 on the Fear & Greed gauge. Corporate buying of this kind does not guarantee price direction, but it adds a steady, disclosed source of demand and underscores the continued treatment of Bitcoin as a long-term reserve asset by publicly listed companies. For readers tracking the strategy going forward, the same SEC-filing channel that surfaced this purchase is where any subsequent changes to holdings, cash, and share counts would first appear.

Additional source reference: Crypto.news.

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