Strive CEO Matt Cole Reposts Bitcoin (BTC) Holdings Chart at 36,818 BTC

Matt Cole Reposts the Holdings Chart

The cash Strive raised this month is the story its chief executive keeps putting on a chart. Matt Cole, CEO of publicly traded Strive (ASST), posted the company's Bitcoin (BTC) holdings chart on X again on Saturday, his third such post in October, with the most recently disclosed count standing at 36,818 BTC as of October 16. The post itself carried no new purchase figure and no date for a follow-up. What it does confirm is the shape of the treasury: a de facto strategic bitcoin reserve assembled in visible, filing-backed steps rather than in a single block trade.

The cadence carries as much weight as the count. Cole published the same chart on October 11 and again on October 18, and the October 18 version added a caption saying the company is gathering Bitcoin at a faster pace. Neither post disclosed amounts, so the only figure investors can act on remains the one filed with regulators. At 36,818 BTC, Strive sits in whale territory among public companies that hold Bitcoin directly on their balance sheets, and the chart has become the company's standing way of keeping the accumulation in view between filings. The weekend timing leaves open the possibility that a fresh purchase count follows within days, but nothing in the post confirms one; the company's own disclosure, not the chart, will set the number. The repost lands while the Bitcoin price sits near $80,376, essentially unchanged over the past 24 hours, a flat tape into which the next filing will drop.

While the treasury count waits on filings, the market itself is quiet. Our readings put the 24-hour change at 0.0%, mark the trend sideways and show an RSI of 42.45, with sentiment neutral at 54 on the Fear & Greed Index. Derivatives positioning is calm as well: funding runs at 0.0027% and open interest stands near $15.9 billion. For readers of Strive's chart, that means the next disclosed purchase lands on a range-bound market, not into momentum. The level that would change the picture is the $82,417 resistance, scored 96 out of 100 in our composite, with nearby support at $80,126 scored 85; both are mapped in our Bitcoin technical analysis.

4,045 BTC in Five Days

The SEC filing behind that count is specific. Strive told regulators on October 19 that it purchased 4,045 Bitcoin (BTC) between October 12 and October 16: 2,822 BTC across October 12 and 13, then 1,223 across October 14 to 16. Total holdings rose from 32,773 BTC as of October 9 to 36,818 BTC as of October 16, a net addition of 4,045 coins in seven days. The filing records a steady HODL build rather than opportunistic trading, and every tranche is tied to named dates, so readers can reconstruct the buying window day by day, unlike the aggregated daily flows reported for an ETF.

The funding side matters just as much for what comes next. On October 20 the company completed an offering of 7 million shares of its SATS preferred stock, after saying it planned to raise about $630 million gross, before fees and expenses. The stated use of proceeds is deliberately broad: purchases of Bitcoin and related products, but also working capital, income-generating assets, capital expenditures and share buybacks. That is why the offering cannot be read as a forward Bitcoin (BTC) purchase figure in full.

The disclosure rhythm puts Strive in the company of the largest treasury holders; Strategy, the biggest corporate holder of the asset, disclosed an estimated $20.91 billion Bitcoin gain ahead of its Q3 report. For Strive, the cash in hand is roughly $630 million gross, set against a treasury that added 4,045 BTC in one filing window. How much of the preferred raise converts into coins will show only when the company files its next purchase count and its as-of date.