Corporate BTC Holdings Timeline
Aggregated total Bitcoin holdings of public companies tracked over time. Historical data accumulates progressively - the longer Trinity runs, the richer this chart becomes. The step-up in late 2025 reflects the Strategy 600,000 BTC milestone (Nov 2025), annotated in the events overlay.
What is it?
A time-series chart showing the evolution of individual company BTC holdings from their first purchase to the present day. Each company is plotted as a separate line or stacked area, revealing the pace, consistency, and scale of their accumulation strategies over time. Strategy's line dominates the chart with its relentless staircase pattern of purchases since August 2020. MetaPlanet shows a steep ascent starting in 2024. Tesla's line shows a distinct bump in early 2021, a partial sell-off, then relative stability. This visualization transforms static holdings data into a dynamic narrative, showing which companies are actively accumulating, which are holding steady, and which have stopped or reduced their positions.
How to read
Each line represents a single company's BTC balance over time. The Y-axis shows BTC quantity (may use log scale to make smaller holders visible alongside Strategy). Staircase patterns indicate discrete purchases. Flat lines indicate holding periods. Downward steps indicate sales or transfers. Use the company selector to toggle visibility. The BTC price overlay (optional, right axis) provides context for when purchases occurred relative to price cycles. Vertical markers annotate the complete event chronology (MSTR first purchase Aug 2020, Tesla Feb 2021 + suspend + sales, MSTR 100K Dec 2021, FTX-era buys Nov 2022, post-ETF rally Mar 2024, 21/21 Plan Nov 2024, 400K Dec 2024, Strategy rebranding Feb 2025, 600K Nov 2025) - hover for source link.
Key zones
Key timeline events: • Aug 2020: Strategy's first purchase (21,454 BTC) - the genesis of corporate BTC treasury. • Feb 2021: Tesla buys approximately 43,000 BTC. Market euphoria peaks. • Q2-Q3 2021: Tesla sells approximately 75% of holdings, retaining a mid-five-figure BTC position. • 2022 bear market: Most timelines go flat - companies hold but do not buy more. • 2023 recovery: Strategy resumes aggressive buying. Mining companies start HODL strategies. • 2024: MetaPlanet enters (Japan), GameStop announces BTC strategy, multiple new entrants. • Mainstream wave: Twenty One Capital launches as a purpose-built BTC vehicle, Trump Media adds BTC, MetaPlanet scales aggressively across multiple tranches. • Strategy crosses the half-million-BTC milestone, then climbs past the three-quarter-million-BTC mark as accumulation compounds.
What to observe
Accumulation/distribution trajectory - who is adding, who is divesting month by month. Multi-issuer time-series tracking buildup vs deleveraging phases. Institutional reading: captures corporate flow dynamics across BTC cycles (post-halving 2020, post-ETF 2024, etc.) - distinct from leaderboard snapshot (point-in-time ranking) and vs-price (smart-money correlation). Watch for convergence of purchase activity (multiple issuers buying simultaneously = institutional sentiment shift), copycat-wave lags after high-profile announcements (typically 2-4 weeks), flat lines during drawdowns (conviction HODL), and rare full liquidations (lines to zero). Note: prominent step-ups in late 2025 (e.g. Strategy crossing 600,000 BTC in November 2025) reflect documented milestones - not data artifacts - and are annotated in the events overlay (toggle 'Events' to display markers + tooltip source links).
Historical context
The corporate BTC timeline starts in August 2020 - before that, corporate BTC holdings were essentially non-existent at the public company level. The timeline reveals distinct phases: (1) Pioneer phase (Aug 2020-Feb 2021): Strategy alone, then Tesla joins. (2) First wave (2021): A dozen companies follow, mostly tech and crypto-adjacent. (3) Bear market pause (2022): Nearly all timelines go flat; some show declines. (4) Recovery and acceleration (2023-2024): Strategy resumes, MetaPlanet enters, mining companies shift to HODL strategies. (5) Mainstream wave (post-ETF era): Non-tech companies enter (GameStop, Trump Media), purpose-built vehicles launch (Twenty One Capital). The timeline shows that corporate BTC adoption is not linear - it occurs in waves triggered by price appreciation, accounting rule changes, and high-profile endorsements.
Expert notes
Timeline granularity depends on disclosure frequency. Strategy publishes near real-time purchase data (often within 24-48 hours of a transaction via 8-K filings and their BTC tracker). Most other companies only update quarterly (10-Q/10-K). This means the timeline for smaller companies may show sharp jumps when a quarterly filing reveals weeks of accumulated purchases. The stacked area view can be misleading because Strategy's growth dwarfs all others - use the log scale or individual company view for detailed analysis. Data before a company's first public disclosure is not available - some companies may have been accumulating privately before their first announcement.
Common mistakes to avoid
Flat lines do not mean 'doing nothing' - they mean 'holding.' A company maintaining its BTC position through a 50% drawdown is making an active decision to hold. Staircase patterns are artifacts of disclosure timing, not necessarily the actual purchase pattern - a company may buy daily but only report monthly. Do not assume that all purchases are made at the price on the date they appear in the chart - execution may span days or weeks at varying prices. The timeline is based on reported holdings, not on-chain transactions, so it may lag reality by days to weeks.
Programmatic access
REST API
curl -sS \
'https://api.trinityinsights.io/api/v1/macro-intelligence/corp-btc-timeline/history?days=90' \
-H 'X-API-Key: $TRINITY_API_KEY'MCP server
{
"tool": "get_chart_value",
"metric_id": "corp-btc-timeline",
"timeframe": "1y"
}Required tier: performance. See the pricing grid for the tier list and the MCP documentation for multi-client configuration.
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