
{"id":207847,"date":"2026-08-02T18:52:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T18:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=207847"},"modified":"2026-08-02T18:52:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T18:52:38","slug":"trump-media-sells-another-165m-in-bitcoin-booking-a-fresh-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=207847","title":{"rendered":"Trump Media Sells Another $165M in Bitcoin, Booking a Fresh Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Data shared by Lookonchain earlier today suggests that Trump Media, the entity behind the Truth Social media platform, majority-owned by the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust, has sold over $165 million worth of bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>This was the second substantial sale made by the entity in recent months after it had splashed over $1 billion at prices near the top last year to accumulate 11,542 units.<\/p>\n<p>The on-chain analytics company noted that the latest offload was for 2,628 BTC after it had transferred the stash to crypto.com. This continued a streak that began earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the entity had spent $1.37 billion to acquire 11,542 BTC at an average price of $118,522. Since its entry level was very close to bitcoin\u2019s very top marked just under a year ago, this automatically means that its sales have been completed at prices well below that.<\/p>\n<p><em>CryptoPotato<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/is-trump-media-dumping-bitcoin-at-a-loss-again\/\">reported<\/a> the previous BTC disposal in May, when wallets linked to Trump Media sold another substantial batch of 2,650 BTC for $205 million.<\/p>\n<p>Lookonchain\u2019s data concurs that the entity has sold a total of 7,281 BTC since it began disposing of its assets, at an average price of under $75,000. This means that its total losses have grown to $555 million.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like Trump Media sold another 2,628 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/search?q=%24BTC&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$BTC<\/a>($165.07M).<\/p>\n<p>Trump Media bought 11,542 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/search?q=%24BTC&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$BTC<\/a>($1.37B) at an average price of $118,522, then started selling 7 months ago, selling a total of 7,281 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/search?q=%24BTC&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$BTC<\/a> ($545M) at an average price of $74,855.<\/p>\n<p>Trump Media is now down a total of $555M\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9xx0MTbweg\">pic.twitter.com\/9xx0MTbweg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lookonchain (@lookonchain) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lookonchain\/status\/2083729126725497083?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 2, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>Aside from the continuous controversial decisions toward the crypto industry from the POTUS-linked companies, this move builds on a recent worrisome trend about BTC treasury firms deciding to sell during times of distress.<\/p>\n<p>As we <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/the-bitcoin-treasury-shakeout-has-begun-which-companies-are-selling-and-whos-next\/\">reported<\/a> last week, several public companies have shifted their strategies, with some selling BTC holdings while others have paused buying the asset indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/trump-media-sells-another-165m-in-bitcoin-booking-a-fresh-loss\/\">Trump Media Sells Another $165M in Bitcoin, Booking a Fresh Loss<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/\">CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data shared by Lookonchain earlier today suggests that Trump Media, the entity behind the Truth Social media platform, majority-owned by the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust, has sold over $165 million worth of bitcoin. This was the second substantial sale made by the entity in recent months after it had splashed over $1 billion at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207847"}],"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=207847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}