NEW MISSION: Beat Saylor

You just got hired to run execution at Strategy. Your first assignment: acquire $1.28 billion of Bitcoin delta between March 2-8, 2026. Saylor's team did it at an effective cost of $73,429/BTC (considering risk free rate). Write a 500-character execution strategy and see if you can do better.

Saylor's Bitcoin acquisition tweet

Your score is the 1-year effective price per BTC — factoring in execution costs and the cost of capital. Lower is better.

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The Challenge

Between March 2-8, 2026, Michael Saylor's Strategy acquired 17,994 BTC for approximately $1.28 billion at an average price of ~$70,946 per Bitcoin.

This challenge asks: could you have done it better?

How Scoring Works

Your score is the 1-year effective price per BTC — a single number that captures both execution quality and capital efficiency.

Effective Price = (Execution Cost + Net Annual Holding Cost) / BTC Delta

Execution cost is what you actually pay to acquire the delta — including fees, spreads, slippage, and option premiums.

Net annual holding cost is the cost of maintaining your position for one year, minus any yields. Capital sitting in T-bills earns 3.5%. Capital locked in spot BTC or margin doesn't. Perpetual funding rates, futures basis costs, and options theta all count.

Saylor bought spot and held. His effective cost: ~$70,946 execution + ~$44.8M opportunity cost (3.5% on $1.28B locked capital) = $73,429/BTC.

Constraints

  • $1.28B notional BTC delta required (~17,994 BTC)
  • 7-day execution window (March 2-8, 2026)
  • Any instruments allowed — spot, futures, options, swaps, OTC, whatever
  • Risk-free rate: 3.5%
  • Holding costs assumed constant over the hold period

The Judge

Strategies are evaluated by an AI execution specialist. The judge is skeptical by default — it estimates realistic market impact, penalizes unrealistic assumptions, and assesses creative strategies from a probability-of-success angle with a skew toward pessimism.

$1.28B is a significant portion of daily BTC volume. The judge knows this and will price in the market impact you're creating.

Rate Limits

10 submissions per hour. Log in with X to submit.