{"id":41431,"date":"2026-02-23T13:36:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T13:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=41431"},"modified":"2026-02-23T13:36:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T13:36:58","slug":"modest-bitcoin-purchase-from-strategy-as-unrealized-losses-near-7-billion-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=41431","title":{"rendered":"Modest Bitcoin Purchase From Strategy as Unrealized Losses Near $7 Billion: Details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<br \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe company\u2019s total holdings were bought for over $54.5 billion \u2013 the current valuation is a lot less.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The ongoing cryptocurrency market correction, which many analysts have decisively called a full-on bear market, has not deterred the world\u2019s largest corporate holder of bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Saylor\u2019s BTC-focused brainchild just announced its latest acquisition, which was relatively modest given the company\u2019s history of billion-dollar purchases in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Strategy spent just under $40 million to acquire 592 BTC at an average price of $67,286 per unit. This puts its entire cryptocurrency portfolio at a whopping 717,722 BTC, purchased for approximately $54.56 billion at an average price of $76,020.<\/p>\n<p>An update shared by Walter Bloomberg <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DeItaone\/status\/2025920610237374620\" target=\"_blank\">informed<\/a> that Strategy sold 297,940 Class A shares via its at-the-market program in the past week to raise the funds for the BTC purchase. As of yesterday, the firm had $37.4 billion in securities available for future ATM sales, including $7.8 billion in MSTR stock and $20.3 billion in STRK stock.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Strategy has acquired 592 BTC for ~$39.8 million at ~$67,286 per bitcoin. As of 2\/22\/2026, we hodl 717,722 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24BTC&src=ctag&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">$BTC<\/a> acquired for ~$54.56 billion at ~$76,020 per bitcoin. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24MSTR&src=ctag&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">$MSTR<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24STRC&src=ctag&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">$STRC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jSQroB4LnE\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/jSQroB4LnE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Saylor (@saylor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/saylor\/status\/2025919387283099870?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">February 23, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Given the asset\u2019s most recent crash to $66,200 as of press time, this means that the Wall Street-listed firm now sits on a growing unrealized loss of around $7 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that Strategy\u2019s behavior was\u00a0<span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">very different just over a month ago, when it\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/strategy-resumes-billion-dollar-bitcoin-buys-with-13627-btc-accumulation\/\">splashed<\/a><\/span>\u00a0more than a billion dollars to accumulate 13,627 BTC. At the time, its portfolio was well in the green, with an unrealized profit of over $10 billion.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"you-may-also-like\" class=\"heading-4\">You may also like:<\/h3>\n<p>The landscape has changed substantially since then, with BTC currently trading around 50% away from its all-time high, which led to speculation that the bear market is <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/the-fastest-bitcoin-btc-crash-is-over-but-the-worst-is-yet-to-come\/\">raging on<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-12\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<div><center><span style=\"font-size:11px; color: gray;\">SPECIAL OFFER (Exclusive)<\/span><\/center><br \/>\n<b>Binance Free $600 (CryptoPotato Exclusive): <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/binance600f\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Use this link<\/a> to register a new account and receive $600 exclusive welcome offer on Binance<\/b> (<a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/binance600d\/\">full details<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><b>LIMITED OFFER for CryptoPotato readers at Bybit: <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/pl\/bybit24\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Use this link<\/a> to register and open a $500 FREE position on any coin!<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/modest-bitcoin-purchase-from-strategy-as-unrealized-losses-near-7-billion-details\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; The company\u2019s total holdings were bought for over $54.5 billion \u2013 the current valuation is a lot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-crypto","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}