Strive buys 15,124 Bitcoin in October, closes in on top treasury holders

Bitcoin treasury company Strive purchased 15,124 Bitcoin (BTC) in October, bringing its total purchases for the first 10 months of 2026 to 35,497 BTC, according to its third-quarter earnings report released Friday. The purchases brought the company closer to the top of the corporate Bitcoin treasury rankings.Strive reported that it held 43,124 BTC as of Oct. 30, making it the fourth-largest publicly traded corporate Bitcoin holder, according to BitcoinTreasuries.NET data. It trails third-place Twenty One Capital by just 390 BTC and would need another 877 BTC to surpass second-place Metaplanet, which holds 44,000 BTC, assuming neither company increases its holdings.Strive’s accumulation follows comments made by CEO Matt Cole in a September interview, in which he said the company could become the world’s second-largest publicly traded corporate Bitcoin holder by year-end, although he acknowledged that the outcome was not his base-case scenario.Strive’s Bitcoin accumulation over the past month. Source: BitcoinTreasuries.NETStrive also raised approximately $609 million in net proceeds through an October offering of its SATS perpetual preferred stock, which carries a 15% annual dividend...