{"id":79663,"date":"2026-04-07T13:16:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T13:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=79663"},"modified":"2026-04-07T13:16:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T13:16:36","slug":"michael-saylors-strategy-posts-14-5b-unrealized-loss-in-q1-what-is-going-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=79663","title":{"rendered":"Michael Saylor&#8217;s Strategy Posts $14.5B Unrealized Loss In Q1: What Is Going On?"},"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>) posted a $14.5 billion unrealized loss in Q1, yet the <strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BTC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BTC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) purchases fail to move markets because the company accounts for only 7% of gross inflows.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Q1 Loss<\/h3>\n<p>Strategy held more than $50 billion of cryptocurrency at quarter-end as Bitcoin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-04-06\/strategy-posts-14-5-billion-unrealized-loss-in-first-quarter\">tumbled<\/a> more than 20% in Q1, the largest first-quarter drop since 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The company adopted accounting standards last year requiring changes in Bitcoin holdings to flow through earnings, driving multibillion-dollar swings in results.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Strategy reported a $2.42 billion deferred tax benefit in the quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Strategy bought 4,871 Bitcoin from April 1-5 for $330 million at an average price of $67,700, funded through Class A common stock sales and Stretch preferred share sales.<\/p>\n<p>The company has $2.25 billion in cash reserves, enough to cover interest and distributions for more than two years.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Shrinking Impact<\/h3>\n<p>Strategy\u2019s demand <a ...><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/04\/51678503\/michael-saylors-strategy-posts-14-5b-unrealized-loss-in-q1-what-is-going-on?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Michael\" saylor strategy posts unrealized loss in q1: what is going on>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strategy (NASDAQ:MSTR) posted a $14.5 billion unrealized loss in Q1, yet the Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) purchases fail to move markets because the company accounts for only 7% of gross inflows. The Q1 Loss Strategy held more than $50 billion of cryptocurrency at quarter-end as Bitcoin tumbled more than 20% in Q1, the largest first-quarter drop [&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-79663","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\/79663","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=79663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}