Bitcoin breaks $73,500

Bitcoin traded above $73,500 this week, extending a rebound that pushed it as high as $76,061.76 on April 14 before easing back near $74,181 by the close. (coinmarketcap.com) The move followed a sharp two-day swing: Bitcoin closed at $70,753.41 on April 12, then jumped to $74,484.64 on April 13 on more than $52.2 billion in reported volume. (coinmarketcap.com) Bitcoin is a digital asset with a fixed supply cap of 21 million coins, and traders often treat it as a risk asset that can move quickly when demand, leverage, or fund flows shift. Price moves of 5% in a day are common enough that companies and exchange-traded funds now track it like a mainstream macro asset. (coinmarketcap.com) One of the biggest public-company buyers is Strategy, the software company formerly known as MicroStrategy, which said on April 13 that it bought 13,927 Bitcoin for about $1.001 billion at an average price of $71,902 each. The company said it held 780,897 Bitcoin as of April 12. (strategy.com) Strategy’s purchase was not 15,088 Bitcoin in a single day, based on the company’s own disclosures. Its public purchase log shows the latest reported buy was 13,927 Bitcoin dated April 13, 2026, after an earlier 4,871-Bitcoin purchase dated April 6. (strategy.com) The company has financed part of that accumulation with securities tied to its capital markets strategy, including STRC, a preferred stock with a variable annualized dividend rate that Strategy lists at 11.50% as of April 2026. Strategy says that rate can reset monthly and that cash dividends are not guaranteed. (strategy.com) That structure has turned Strategy into something closer to a Bitcoin holding vehicle than a conventional software company. Its purchase log lists a cumulative acquisition cost of about $59.018 billion and an average purchase price of $75,577 per Bitcoin across its 780,897-coin position. (strategy.com) The rally also shows how closely Bitcoin’s market price and Strategy’s financing machine now move together. Strategy’s own metrics page listed Bitcoin at $71,485 on April 13 at 3:19 p.m. Eastern time, hours before the broader market traded through the mid-$73,000s and above. (strategy.com; coinmarketcap.com) For now, the cleanest verified facts are these: Bitcoin has reclaimed the low-to-mid $70,000 range, and Strategy has kept buying into that move. Whether that becomes a new leg higher or another volatile swing will show up first in price data and in Strategy’s next filing. (coinmarketcap.com; strategy.com)