PANews reported on February 19 that according to MarketWatch, Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) disclosed on Tuesday that as of December 31, 2024, the company had a total of 1,534 employees, about 400 fewer than last year, a decrease of 20.7%. The department with the most layoffs was the R&D department, with 144 layoffs; followed by the consulting department, with 124 layoffs; and finally the sales and marketing department, with 95 layoffs.
Data shows that in 2024, Strategy's holdings of bitcoins more than doubled from 189,150 at the end of 2023 to 447,470. A total of $22.1 billion was spent on buying bitcoins, with an average price of about $85,447 per bitcoin. So far in 2025, about $3.2 billion has been spent on buying 31,270 bitcoins.
