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Strategy Adds $1.4B in Bitcoin | Monero Pumps After Theft | Melania Token Team Sells and more...
Good Morning Crypto Enthusiasts!
Glad to have you back for another edition of the UseTheBitcoin.com newsletter.
Strategy Adds $1.4B in Bitcoin: Strategy bought 15,355 BTC as prices topped $90K, boosting holdings to 553,555 BTC.
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Monero Spikes After $330M Theft: Hackers laundered $330M in stolen Bitcoin through Monero, causing XMR’s price to surge 50%.
💡Feature of the Day - Melania Token Team Cashes Out: MELANIA’s developers sold $1.5M in tokens during a small rally.
All this and more in today’s headlines!
📰 News Highlights:
Strategy added 15,355 Bitcoin worth $1.42 billion as BTC prices surged above $90,000.
The purchase, made between April 21–27, increased their holdings by roughly 3% to 553,555 BTC, now valued at over $50 billion.
This marks Strategy’s largest acquisition since late March.
$MSTR has acquired 15,355 BTC for ~$1.42 billion at ~$92,737 per bitcoin and has achieved BTC Yield of 13.7% YTD 2025. As of 4/27/2025, we hodl 553,555 $BTC acquired for ~$37.90 billion at ~$68,459 per bitcoin.
— Michael Saylor (@saylor)
12:02 PM • Apr 28, 2025
Michael Saylor highlighted that the company’s BTC yield hit 13.7% year-to-date, with an aggregate purchase price of $37.9 billion at an average of $68,459 per Bitcoin.
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Monero Pumps After Theft [Source]
Blockchain investigator ZachXBT reported a suspicious $330 million Bitcoin theft, with the stolen funds laundered through Monero.
Nine hours ago a suspicious transfer was made from a potential victim for 3520 BTC ($330.7M)
Theft address
bc1qcrypchnrdx87jnal5e5m849fw460t4gk7vz55gShortly after the funds began to be laundered via 6+ instant exchanges and was swapped for XMR causing the XMR price to spike
— ZachXBT (@zachxbt)
7:30 AM • Apr 28, 2025
The laundering operation caused XMR’s price to spike by 50%, reaching $339, before settling around $289, still up 25% in 24 hours.
ZachXBT believes independent hackers, not groups like Lazarus, were responsible.
💡 Feature of the Day:
The Melania memecoin team sold over $1.5 million worth of MELANIA tokens in three days as the token recovered 21% in a week.
The #Melania team didn’t just add or remove liquidity to sell $MELANIA, they also employed a DCA strategy for direct sales!
2 days ago, they sold 1.18M $MELANIA for 4,230 $SOL($632K) using the DCA strategy.
Today, they are selling another 2.01M $MELANIA($938K) through the DCA
— Lookonchain (@lookonchain)
6:41 AM • Apr 28, 2025
Blockchain data revealed the team used a dollar-cost averaging strategy for the sales.
A whale created a new wallet and deposited 1.33M $USDC into #HyperLiquid to short $TRUMP.
The entry price was $14.787 and the liquidation price was $21.538.
hypurrscan.io/address/0x8fAE…
— Lookonchain (@lookonchain)
2:12 AM • Apr 28, 2025
Despite the rally, MELANIA is still down 96% from its all-time high of $13.7 set in January.
😂 Crypto Meme of the Day:
Would you ever take out a loan to buy bitcoin?
— Wojak Bitcoin Memes (@wojakbitcoin)
1:26 PM • Jun 18, 2024
And that’s it for this today.
See you all tomorrow’s edition!
Jonathan Gibson
UseTheBitcoin.com