{"id":72735,"date":"2026-02-17T13:32:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T13:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=72735"},"modified":"2026-02-17T13:32:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T13:32:46","slug":"2486-btc-strategy-doubles-down-as-portfolio-hits-unrealized-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=72735","title":{"rendered":"2,486 BTC: Strategy Doubles Down as Portfolio Hits Unrealized Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The world\u2019s largest corporate holder of bitcoin has used the current market slump as an opportunity to increase its BTC portfolio at prices of under $70,000.<\/p>\n<p>In its latest purchase, announced minutes ago, Strategy\u2019s co-founder, Michael Saylor, said the firm accumulated 2,486 BTC for almost $170 million at an average price of $67,710 per unit. This puts the NASDAQ-listed company\u2019s total bitcoin fortune at 717,131 BTC, bought at an average price of $76,027.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Strategy has acquired 2,486 BTC for ~$168.4 million at ~$67,710 per bitcoin. As of 2\/16\/2026, we hodl 717,131 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24BTC&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$BTC<\/a> acquired for ~$54.52 billion at ~$76,027 per bitcoin. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24MSTR&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$MSTR<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24STRC&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$STRC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wvxRYZlQ3Y\">https:\/\/t.co\/wvxRYZlQ3Y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Saylor (@saylor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/saylor\/status\/2023744880577548457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 17, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The cryptocurrency market\u2019s decline in the past several weeks has turned Strategy\u2019s holdings into a losing position, even though the firm has repeatedly reassured that it has no plans to dispose of any of its BTC.<\/p>\n<p>At a bitcoin price of $68,000 as of press time, Strategy\u2019s holdings are now worth less than $49 billion. In other words, the firm stands in an unrealized loss of over $5 billion for the first time since the 2023 bear-market closure.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s stock price experienced heightened broader market volatility over the past few weeks, falling from $140 to $120 last week before stabilizing at around $134.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/2486-btc-strategy-doubles-down-as-portfolio-hits-unrealized-loss\/\">2,486 BTC: Strategy Doubles Down as Portfolio Hits Unrealized Loss<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s largest corporate holder of bitcoin has used the current market slump as an opportunity to increase its BTC portfolio at prices of under $70,000. In its latest purchase, announced minutes ago, Strategy\u2019s co-founder, Michael Saylor, said the firm accumulated 2,486 BTC for almost $170 million at an average price of $67,710 per unit. [&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-72735","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\/72735","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=72735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}