{"id":560711,"date":"2026-02-25T09:52:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T09:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/anchorage-buys-strc-as-wall-street-shorts-mount-against-saylors-bitcoin-proxy\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T09:52:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T09:52:50","slug":"anchorage-buys-strc-as-wall-street-shorts-mount-against-saylors-bitcoin-proxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/anchorage-buys-strc-as-wall-street-shorts-mount-against-saylors-bitcoin-proxy\/","title":{"rendered":"Anchorage buys STRC as Wall Street shorts mount against Saylor\u2019s Bitcoin proxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjUtMTIvMDE5YjAwMTAtZTRlNC03MWJkLTk2YTYtMDhhOWEzZWQ4NDY1.jpg\" alt=\"Anchorage buys STRC as Wall Street shorts mount against Saylor\u2019s Bitcoin proxy\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Strategy has become the most-shorted large-cap US stock as hedge funds ramp up bearish bets, according to data from Goldman Sachs.<\/p>\n<p>Crypto bank Anchorage Digital said it holds Strategy\u2019s perpetual preferred security STRC on its balance sheet, adding an institutional backer to Michael Saylor\u2019s Bitcoin treasury company at a time when Wall Street traders are increasingly betting against it.<\/p>\n<p>In a Wednesday <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nathanmccauley\/status\/2026451177219698982?s=46\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a> on X, Anchorage co-founder and CEO Nathan McCauley said the purchase shows alignment between two companies built around Bitcoin (<a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/bitcoin-price\">BTC<\/a>) infrastructure and corporate treasury adoption. \u201cConviction compounds. Institutions don\u2019t just talk about Bitcoin, they structure around it,\u201d McCauley wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the company that operationalizes Bitcoin infrastructure puts capital alongside the company that operationalized the Bitcoin treasury strategy\u2026that\u2019s a signal,\u201d he added. Anchorage did not reveal the size or timing of the position.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/anchorage-digital-holds-strategy-strc-most-shorted-stock\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strategy has become the most-shorted large-cap US stock as hedge funds ramp up bearish bets, according to data from Goldman Sachs. Crypto bank Anchorage Digital said it holds Strategy\u2019s perpetual preferred security STRC on its balance sheet, adding an institutional backer to Michael Saylor\u2019s Bitcoin treasury company at a time when Wall Street traders are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":560712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-560711","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}