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MSTR and COIN each jumped double digits Wednesday but remain down roughly 35%-39% for 2026, making this a violent short-covering bounce rather than a confirmed trend reversal.
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Goldman Sachs nearly quadrupled its MSTR stake to $555 million even as Strategy reversed course by selling Bitcoin to fund preferred dividends.
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Bitmine Chairman Tom Lee holds 4.8% of Ethereum’s circulating supply, giving him a direct financial stake in the ETH narratives he publicly promotes.
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Even with the Clarity Act stalled in Congress, the he U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is proposing new cryptocurrency-related rules; this framework is known as “Regulation Crypto Assets.” This helps to explain why Strategy (NASDAQ:MSTR) stock is up 13% to $104.72 midday Wednesday, as part of a broad rally in crypto-linked equities as Bitcoin (CRYPTO:BTC) punches back above $68,000 for the first time in months.
Bitmine Immersion Technologies (NYSEAMERICAN:BMNR) stock is climbing 13% to $20.63. Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) shares are up 11% to $162.88. The move marks the sharpest one-day pop for these crypto proxies all summer.
Yet, even after today’s spike, all three remain deeply negative on the year. This is a sharp one-day rally inside a brutal 2026.
Bitcoin’s Rebound Off Summer Lows
Bitcoin is trading at $68,500, up 6% over the past 24 hours. Ethereum (CRYPTO:ETH) trades at $1,908 as of August 19
No company-specific catalyst has surfaced. The move looks like a rebound off summer lows that pushed Bitcoin’s year-to-date drawdown deep into the red, possibly boosted by the SEC’s proposed crypto rules.
Strategy Leads the Bitcoin Proxies Higher
Strategy stock is up 13% to $104.72, though shares remain down 39% year to date (YTD) through Tuesday’s close. Strategy’s leverage to Bitcoin cuts both ways, and it’s cut hard in 2026.
The company has sold Bitcoin in multiple tranches since May to fund dividends on its STRC preferred shares, reversing the accumulation-only approach that built its reputation. In Q2 2026, 12 of Strategy’s 15 largest institutional holders added to their positions, with combined holdings rising $700 million. That trails the Q1 2026 figure, when 13 top holders added and combined holdings rose $4.6 billion.
Source: finance.yahoo.com