{"id":72051,"date":"2026-02-12T05:01:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T05:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=72051"},"modified":"2026-02-12T05:01:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T05:01:35","slug":"jim-chanos-slams-bitcoin-play-strategy-for-bragging-about-stability-of-preferred-shares-can-you-imagine-any-other-ceo-with-a-plunging-stock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=72051","title":{"rendered":"Jim Chanos Slams Bitcoin Play Strategy For Bragging About Stability Of Preferred Shares: &#8216;Can You Imagine Any Other CEO With A Plunging Stock\u2026&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Veteran short seller\u00a0<strong>Jim Chanos<\/strong> slammed <strong>Strategy Inc.<\/strong>\u00a0(NASDAQ:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/MSTR\">MSTR<\/a>)\u00a0for touting the stability of its perpetual preferred shares on Wednesday, even as its main stock continues to get hammered.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Chanos Takes Fresh Dig At Strategy<\/h2>\n<p>Chanos reacted to a Bloomberg interview where Strategy CEO <strong>Phong Le <\/strong>described the firm\u2019s <strong>Perpetual Stretch Preferred Stock<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/STRC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">(NASDAQ:<\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/STRC\">STRC<\/a>) closing at $100 as the \u201cstory of the day\u201d and \u201cexactly how it was engineered to perform.\u201d <strong>Michael Saylor<\/strong>, Executive Chairman of Strategy, echoed the point.<\/p>\n<p>However, Chanos, a scathing critic of Strategy\u2019s business model, was not convinced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan you imagine any other CEO with a plunging stock saying, \u2018The story of the day is that our junk debt is still trading at par,&#8217;\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Can you imagine any other CEO with a plunging stock saying, &#8220;The story of the day is that our junk debt is still trading at par!&#8221; <a ...><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/02\/50566065\/jim-chanos-slams-bitcoin-play-strategy-for-bragging-about-stability-of-preferred-shares-can?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Jim\" chanos slams bitcoin play strategy for bragging about stability of preferred shares: you imagine any other ceo with a plunging stock>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran short seller\u00a0Jim Chanos slammed Strategy Inc.\u00a0(NASDAQ:MSTR)\u00a0for touting the stability of its perpetual preferred shares on Wednesday, even as its main stock continues to get hammered. Chanos Takes Fresh Dig At Strategy Chanos reacted to a Bloomberg interview where Strategy CEO Phong Le described the firm\u2019s Perpetual Stretch Preferred Stock\u00a0(NASDAQ:STRC) closing at $100 as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-72051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}