{"id":72784,"date":"2026-02-17T17:31:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=72784"},"modified":"2026-02-17T17:31:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:31:51","slug":"strategy-buys-2486-bitcoin-but-mstr-dives-another-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=72784","title":{"rendered":"Strategy Buys 2,486 Bitcoin But MSTR Dives Another 3%"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Strategy<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"MSTR\" data-exchange=\"NASDAQ\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/MSTR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(NASDAQ:<\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/MSTR\">MSTR<\/a>) bought 2,486 <strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BTC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BTC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) for $168.4 million between February 9 and February 16 at an average price of $67,710.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Latest Purchase<\/h3>\n<p>Strategy <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/saylor\/status\/2023744880577548457\">funded<\/a> the buy through two sources: $90.5 million in common stock sales and $78.4 million from STRC preferred stock sales.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Total holdings now stand at 717,131 BTC acquired for $54.52 billion at a $76,027 average cost basis.<\/p>\n<p>The math is painful. With Bitcoin at $68,000, Strategy sits underwater by roughly $8,000 per coin\u2014a total unrealized loss of approximately $5.7 billion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite the loss, the company retains substantial capital-raising capacity: $7.88 billion remaining under common stock authorization and $3.54 billion under STRC alone.<\/p>\n<p>The buying continues regardless. Strategy used all ATM proceeds to purchase Bitcoin, maintaining its core strategy of converting equity raises directly into BTC regardless of &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/02\/50660531\/strategy-buys-2486-bitcoin-but-mstr-dives-another-3?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Strategy\" buys bitcoin but mstr dives another>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strategy (NASDAQ:MSTR) bought 2,486 Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) for $168.4 million between February 9 and February 16 at an average price of $67,710. The Latest Purchase Strategy funded the buy through two sources: $90.5 million in common stock sales and $78.4 million from STRC preferred stock sales.\u00a0 Total holdings now stand at 717,131 BTC acquired for [&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-72784","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\/72784","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=72784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}