--- title: "Strive adds 124 Bitcoin in roughly $10 million purchase" description: "Strive bought another 124 Bitcoin for about $10 million, Decrypt reported, leaving it 390 BTC behind Twenty One Capital for third place among corporate…" language: en canonical: "https://whycoinmoves.com/en/events/bitcoin-strive-inches-closer-becoming-second-c5e693490c361e" published: 2026-11-02T15:05:02.000Z updated: 2026-11-02T22:25:06.000Z indexable: true --- # Strive adds 124 Bitcoin in roughly $10 million purchase Strive bought another 124 Bitcoin for about $10 million, Decrypt reported, leaving it 390 BTC behind Twenty One Capital for third place among corporate… Attributed sources: [The Block](), [Decrypt]() ## Key facts Strive bought another 124 Bitcoin for about $10 million, Decrypt reported, leaving it 390 BTC behind Twenty One Capital for third place among corporate treasury holders. The Block reported that the purchase moves Strive closer to becoming the second-largest public company holder of bitcoin after Strategy. Evidence strength: Multiple publishers, 2 publisher group(s) (The Block, Decrypt). After site detection, observed returns were 5 minutes: +0.25% (Nov 2, 2026, 15:05 → Nov 2, 2026, 15:10, UTC; Gate · USDT); 1 hour: -0.32% (Nov 2, 2026, 15:05 → Nov 2, 2026, 16:05, UTC; Gate · USDT) In the preceding 30 days, the 99th percentile of absolute hourly returns was 1.23% (OKX · USDT; cutoff Nov 2, 2026, 15:05, UTC). ## Returns after site detection | Window | Return | BTC | Difference from BTC | Actual sampled interval (UTC) | Source | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 5 minutes | +0.25% | +0.25% | 0.00 pts | Nov 2, 2026, 15:05 → Nov 2, 2026, 15:10 | Gate · USDT | | 1 hour | -0.32% | -0.32% | 0.00 pts | Nov 2, 2026, 15:05 → Nov 2, 2026, 16:05 | Gate · USDT | ## Historical hourly baseline | Metric | Value | | --- | --- | | Coverage | 100.0% (720/720) | | Median absolute hourly return | 0.14% | | 99th percentile of absolute hourly returns | 1.23% | | BTC beta | 1.00 | | Source / cutoff (UTC) | OKX · USDT / Nov 2, 2026, 15:05 | ## Claims and open questions - Strive added 124 Bitcoin for about $10 million and now trails Twenty One Capital by 390 BTC for third place among Treasury companies, Decrypt reported. - Strive bought another 124 BTC, bringing it closer to becoming the second-largest public company holder of bitcoin after Strategy, The Block reported. - What Strive's total bitcoin holdings are after this purchase, and whether its filings or disclosures confirm the 124 BTC figure and the roughly $10 million cost. - Which company currently sits in the ranking position Strive is approaching, given that Decrypt places it behind Twenty One Capital for third while The Block frames it as nearing the second spot behind Strategy. ## Source evidence - [Strive inches closer to becoming second-largest public bitcoin holder after latest $10 million buy]() — The Block; published Nov 2, 2026, 15:01; received Nov 2, 2026, 15:05 (UTC). - [Bitcoin Firm Strive Climbs Up the Treasury Ranks With Another Big Buy]() — Decrypt; published Nov 2, 2026, 22:16; received Nov 2, 2026, 22:19 (UTC). ## Recent BTC events and market reactions - [Mercado Bitcoin pauses withdrawals after $46 million security breach]() — Published Nov 2, 2026, 19:05 (UTC) · Multiple publishers (2 publishers) · Security · 5m 0.00% / 1h -0.08% - [Mercado Bitcoin halts deposits and withdrawals after security incident]() — Published Nov 2, 2026, 15:53 (UTC) · Multiple publishers (3 publishers) · Security · 5m -0.36% / 1h -0.31% - [Strategy buys 811 bitcoin for $65.5 million and repurchases $208.2 million of STRC]() — Published Nov 2, 2026, 13:09 (UTC) · Multiple publishers (4 publishers) · General news · 5m -0.04% / 1h +0.29% - [Binance hackers begin swapping stolen Solana tokens for Bitcoin, Chainalysis says]() — Published Nov 2, 2026, 12:40 (UTC) · Single source (1 publisher) · Security · 5m -0.05% / 1h +0.37% - [Strangers send sub-dollar payments to Binance hacker wallets with messages]() — Published Nov 2, 2026, 05:18 (UTC) · Single source (1 publisher) · Security · 5m +0.13% / 1h -0.02% - [Full coin archive]() ## Research for this archive - [Altcoin beta to Bitcoin: BTC, ETH, SOL and DOGE hourly returns]() - [Will Bitcoin go back up? Every crash since 2011 and its recovery time]() - [Perpetual funding rates and annualized yield: a 2025 comparison]() - [Bitcoin halving and bull markets: evidence from four halvings]() Evidence levels describe source coverage, not the probability that a report is true. Price moves and their timing cannot establish a cause; minute samples show an observed interval and alert thresholds are heuristics. Explanations are model-assisted, with citations and figures checked. Source titles stay in their original language; full articles are not republished. [Methods and limitations]()