Bitcoin Rally Takes Strategy From $9.5B Underwater to $4.7B Paper Profit in 7 Days

Strategy's average Bitcoin purchase price remains above $75,000, keeping the position sensitive to further price moves. Michael Saylor’s Strategy swung an unrealized loss of more than $9.5 billion to a paper profit above $4.7 billion in just seven days. The reversal follows Bitcoin’s climb from the low $60,000s to above $80,000 over the same week, turning the largest corporate BTC holder’s balance sheet from red to green. The Numbers Behind the Swing Strategy’s own dashboard puts its holdings at 840,477 BTC, bought at an average price of $75,385, a position that was down more than $9.5 billion a week earlier and is now up more than $4.7 billion. The firm has kept building its cash position and has not bought or sold any Bitcoin over the stretch. However, it did sell 18.26 million shares of MSTR for $2.01 billion, with $1.59 billion moved into a second reserve, USD Cash, that Strategy says can be used for future Bitcoin purchases. Its regular USD reserve also grew to $5.1 billion. It also repurchased $136 million of its STRC preferred shares, whose price keeps climbing toward its $100 par value ($97.21 at last check), with its last Bitcoin move being a sale on August 10, when it she...