
{"id":132127,"date":"2026-02-03T18:39:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T18:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=132127"},"modified":"2026-02-03T18:39:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T18:39:33","slug":"strategy-mstr-plummets-8-as-bitcoin-hits-one%e2%80%91year-lows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=132127","title":{"rendered":"Strategy ($MSTR) Plummets 8% As Bitcoin Hits One\u2011Year Lows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/\">Bitcoin Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/markets\/strategy-stock-plummets-8-percent\">Strategy ($MSTR) Plummets 8% As Bitcoin Hits One\u2011Year Lows<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Shares of Strategy plunged today, dipping more than 8% in trading as Bitcoin traded at new one-year lows and crypto risk assets came under renewed pressure.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The decline pushed MSTR\u2019s share price to levels not seen since late 2024, deepening a multi\u2011month downtrend that has left the stock among the worst performers on the Nasdaq this year.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin\u2019s slump \u2014 dipping below key technical thresholds over the weekend and early week \u2014 has reverberated through markets, hitting crypto\u2011linked equities especially hard.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Shares of major crypto platforms, like <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/why-robinhood-hood-shares-getting-175543868.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robinhood<\/a> and Circle also lost ground, highlighting the increasing correlation between Bitcoin prices and related stocks.<\/p>\n<p>With over 713,000 Bitcoins on its balance sheet, purchased at an average cost near $76,000 per coin, Strategy is grappling with unrealized losses after Bitcoin\u2019s recent slide below that level.<\/p>\n<p>Despite price dips, Chairman Michael Saylor has made it clear that Strategy won\u2019t be selling its Bitcoin \u2014 and in fact is <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/business\/strategy-mstr-is-buying-bitcoin?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">doubling down<\/a> on purchases even as the market dips, signaling his intent to keep accumulating more.<\/p>\n<p>In his messaging, he\u2019s basically said <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/markets\/why-is-michael-saylors-strategy-mstr-down-today?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">he\u2019s comfortable with holding<\/a> and adding even on weakness, not cashing out when prices fall.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Strategy bought more bitcoin last week<\/h2>\n<p>Earlier this week, Strategy said it purchased 855 bitcoin for about $75.3 million, <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/markets\/strategy-mstr-bought-855-bitcoin\">paying<\/a> an average price of $87,974 per BTC, according to a Monday filing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The acquisition came just days before bitcoin fell below $75,000 over the weekend on some rapid selling, briefly pushing Strategy\u2019s treasury close to $1 billion in unrealized losses. <\/p>\n<p>Now, the price of bitcoin is below those levels near $74,000. <\/p>\n<p>The company now holds 713,502 BTC, acquired for roughly $54.26 billion at an average cost of $76,052 per coin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last week\u2019s purchase was fully funded through the sale of common stock, following Strategy\u2019s ongoing capital-raising approach to finance bitcoin buys. The purchase of 855 bitcoin was significantly smaller <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/featured\/strategy-mstr-buys-13627-bitcoin\">compared<\/a> to prior company purchases.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing, bitcoin\u2019s price <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/markets\/bitcoin-price-plunges-to-74000-range\">dropped<\/a> below $74,000 today, its lowest level in a year. The bitcoin price has now retraced more than 40% from its all\u2011time highs reached in late 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Prior to today, the one-year low for the bitcoin price was $74,747. Strategy shares started the day at $139.66, but are currently trading at $128.87.\u00a0The shares 52-week high was around $450 per share.<\/p>\n<p>This post <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/markets\/strategy-stock-plummets-8-percent\">Strategy ($MSTR) Plummets 8% As Bitcoin Hits One\u2011Year Lows<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/\">Bitcoin Magazine<\/a> and is written by <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/authors\/micahzimmerman\">Micah Zimmerman<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin Magazine Strategy ($MSTR) Plummets 8% As Bitcoin Hits One\u2011Year Lows Shares of Strategy plunged today, dipping more than 8% in trading as Bitcoin traded at new one-year lows and crypto risk assets came under renewed pressure.\u00a0 The decline pushed MSTR\u2019s share price to levels not seen since late 2024, deepening a multi\u2011month downtrend that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":132128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132127","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\/132127"}],"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=132127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/132128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}