
{"id":131681,"date":"2026-02-02T13:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T13:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=131681"},"modified":"2026-02-02T13:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T13:12:08","slug":"saylors-strategy-buys-more-bitcoin-despite-shrinking-paper-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=131681","title":{"rendered":"Saylor\u2019s Strategy Buys More Bitcoin Despite Shrinking Paper Gains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s largest corporate holder of bitcoin just announced its latest such purchase, which was executed before the Thursday and Saturday market crashes, at an average price of almost $88,000.<\/p>\n<p>The company spent $75.3 million to acquire 855 BTC, with its total stash increasing to 713,502 units.<\/p>\n<p>Strategy has acquired 855 BTC for ~$75.3 million at ~$87,974 per bitcoin. As of 2\/1\/2026, we hodl 713,502 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24BTC&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$BTC<\/a> acquired for ~$54.26 billion at ~$76,052 per bitcoin. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24MSTR&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$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\/tYTGMwPPUF\">https:\/\/t.co\/tYTGMwPPUF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Saylor (@saylor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/saylor\/status\/2018309030360363422?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 2, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>The post above shows that the firm\u2019s holdings were bought for approximately $54.26 billion, at an average price of $76,052 per BTC. Given the cryptocurrency\u2019s current price tag of under $78,000, this means that the company\u2019s paper gains have shrunk to under $3 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that the number stood at nearly $8 billion just last week when bitcoin was closer to $90,000. However, the asset slumped hard twice in the past week \u2013 on Thursday and Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The first one <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/bitcoin-price-plunges-to-6-week-low-as-liquidations-explode-amid-iran-strike-fears\/\">dropped<\/a> it to $81,000, before the bears took complete control of the market and <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/2-5-billion-saturday-wiped-out-analysts-explain-why-bitcoin-and-altcoins-crashed\/\">pushed<\/a> it south to $74,400 earlier today. This meant that Strategy\u2019s holdings were briefly in the red for the first time since October 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Strategy\u2019s own stock has not been spared from the overall market calamity, as it\u2019s down by over 6% in the past five days.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/saylors-strategy-buys-more-bitcoin-despite-shrinking-paper-gains\/\">Saylor\u2019s Strategy Buys More Bitcoin Despite Shrinking Paper Gains<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/\">CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s largest corporate holder of bitcoin just announced its latest such purchase, which was executed before the Thursday and Saturday market crashes, at an average price of almost $88,000. The company spent $75.3 million to acquire 855 BTC, with its total stash increasing to 713,502 units. Strategy has acquired 855 BTC for ~$75.3 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":131682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131681"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/131682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}