On Monday, December 29, 2025, Michael Saylor’s Strategies (formerly MicroStrategy) announced its latest Bitcoin purchase. The company has reacquired more than $100 million in digital assets, maintaining consistent purchases over the years. Strategy’s large Bitcoin purchases have often been cause for celebration in the cryptocurrency community, but not everyone believes it is a good strategy. This move was condemned primarily by world-renowned economist Peter Schiff, who highlighted that the gains so far have been subpar.
Strategy’s Bitcoin move may have been better than any other asset.
Schiff’s comments came hot on the heels of the strategy announcement, showing that a total of 1,229 BTC had been purchased for approximately $109 million. Once the purchase is complete, the average purchase price of the coins will be around $88,568, meaning the publicly traded company already holds a significant amount of Bitcoin.
Less than 30 minutes after Strategy’s announcement, Peter Schiff took to the X (formerly Twitter) platform to share his thoughts on the move. Mainly, economists are unimpressed with how the company’s Bitcoin bet has fared so far, despite losses exceeding $50 billion on the digital asset.
Schiff points out that despite aggressively purchasing BTC over the past five years, the Strategy has only returned 16%. If we analyze this over the years that the company has purchased Bitcoin, the average annual return on the investment amounts to about 3%.
Given this, the economist believes the company would have been better off if it had accumulated other assets besides Bitcoin. Interestingly, while the prices of other assets such as gold and silver have hit all-time highs this year, BTC continues to struggle.
Breaking Down Strategy’s BTC holdings status
Currently, Strategy holds the title of listed company with the largest Bitcoin holdings. According to data According to data aggregation website CoinGecko, Strategy currently holds 672,497 BTC, which accounts for 3.202% of the total Bitcoin supply.
Accumulating the entire stack cost the company a whopping $50.44 billion, with an average price of $74,997 at the time of the last purchase. Maintaining a 16% profit margin year to date, Strategy currently has over $8 billion in unrealized profits. This is down from the all-time high of $22 billion in profits made last October, when the price of Bitcoin exceeded $126,000.
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