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Michael Saylor’s Strategy (MSTR) saw its stock climb on Monday amid an ongoing Bitcoin BTC rally. The cryptocurrency hit $125,000 for the first time on Sunday, and is trading at $124,000 today, leading a crypto market rally. Crypto-based US stocks are all rising on today’s market, with MSTR being one of the most recognizable due to its large BTC holdings and investments. Although it’s paused on the latter this week, the company announced an unrealized gain of $3.89 billion on its digital assets in Q3 2025, along with a deferred tax expense of $1.12 billion. Strategy has more than $74 billion in bitcoin and more than $27 billion in unrealized gains. Last week, the company also rose by over $8B in market capitalization. The US Treasury and IRS waived the company of a multi-billion dollar tax bill on its BTC holdings, which saved the company billions in potential tax liabilities. Now, with the crypto market rallying, Strategy and other crypto stock giants are climbing as ...

The late Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA and a close ally of President Donald Trump, was widely known for his outspoken views on politics and culture, but he was also an avid investor and a supporter of digital assets. Kirk told The Iced Coffee Hour podcast that up to 80% of his wealth came from investments back in July. He described his strategy as “boring,” mentioning private equity firms, mutual funds, and indexes such as the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) as his team’s primary focus. The activist occasionally took bigger risks, however. In the same episode, he reflected on the “tariff stuff” and the COVID-19 pandemic, saying he “went all in” on triple-leveraged NASDAQ exchange-traded funds (ETFs), calling it the easiest bet of his life:  “I went all in and bought the dip during the tariff stuff and COVID. During COVID I bought triple-leveraged QQQ. It was the easiest bet I’ve ever made in my life. My whole premise at the time was: this is so se...

James Fickel is the founder of the Amaranth Foundation, funding longevity research, and the world’s fifth richest known crypto investor. Fickle has partially closed a multi-millionaire long Ethereum (ETH) position against Bitcoin (BTC) on August 10 as BTC overperformed ETH. According to a Lookonchain report, the Amaranth Foundation’s founder started opening long positions on Ethereum against Bitcoin on January 10. These positions used an advanced decentralized finance (DeFi) strategy of lending, borrowing, and trading one asset against the other. Essentially, James Fickel provided lending liquidity on Aave (AAVE) to use as collateral to borrow 3,061 Wrapped Bitcoin (wBTC). He then used this $172 million wBTC loan to swap for 56,445 ETH in these seven months since January. Lookonchain calculates an average ETH/BTC exchange rate of 0.05424. Picks for you ...