One Bitcoin treasury’s paper loss just made Strategy’s stress everyone’s problem

Bitcoin treasury preferred stocks are moving from a simple income story into a credit test on Bitcoin balance sheets.

Strategy remains the center of gravity, but Strive, the 7th largest public Bitcoin holder, has now put the spillover in public numbers: another Bitcoin treasury company held a Strategy preferred stock and watched that position become a market signal of stress.

In its June 29 update, Strive disclosed that it held the same 505,000 STRC shares on June 18 and June 26, while the fair value of that position fell from $44.738 million to $37.658 million.

That $7.08 million change happened without a disclosed change in the STRC share count. On a simple division of the filed fair-value figures, Strive's implied mark moved from roughly $88.59 per share to $74.57 per share in eight days.