{"id":636899,"date":"2026-07-30T21:52:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T21:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/30\/strategy-posts-8-2b-q2-loss-as-bitcoin-slump-drives-unrealized-losses\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T21:52:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T21:52:48","slug":"strategy-posts-8-2b-q2-loss-as-bitcoin-slump-drives-unrealized-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/30\/strategy-posts-8-2b-q2-loss-as-bitcoin-slump-drives-unrealized-losses\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategy posts $8.2B Q2 loss as Bitcoin slump drives unrealized losses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/article-covers\/regulation-office-document-paper-strategyb.png\" alt=\"Strategy posts $8.2B Q2 loss as Bitcoin slump drives unrealized losses\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Bitcoin treasury company said it has built a $3.75 billion cash reserve to support preferred stock payouts following the launch of its BTC monetization program.<\/p>\n<p>Strategy reported an $8.22 billion second-quarter net loss, driven primarily by an $8.32 billion unrealized loss on its Bitcoin holdings as the cryptocurrency\u2019s price declined during the quarter.<\/p>\n<p>As of July 26, Strategy held 843,775 Bitcoin (BTC), up 25% from the beginning of the year. The company also disclosed that it had sold approximately $218.4 million worth of Bitcoin under its newly established BTC monetization program to help fund a portion of its preferred stock dividend obligations. Most of those sales ($216 million) occurred in early July after the second quarter ended.<\/p>\n<p>Strategy also said it has built a $3.75 billion U.S. dollar reserve, enough to cover more than two years of preferred dividend payments and interest obligations. The company recently repurchased $25 million of its STRC preferred shares at a discount to par and said it intends to continue buying the securities while they trade below $100.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/strategy-reports-q2-2026-loss\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bitcoin treasury company said it has built a $3.75 billion cash reserve to support preferred stock payouts following the launch of its BTC monetization program. Strategy reported an $8.22 billion second-quarter net loss, driven primarily by an $8.32 billion unrealized loss on its Bitcoin holdings as the cryptocurrency\u2019s price declined during the quarter. As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":636900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-636899","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\/636899","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=636899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}