Metaplanet's Bitcoin (BTC) Treasury Is $1B Underwater on a $102,502 Average Cost Basis

A $102,502 Average Cost Basis

Metaplanet, the Tokyo-listed firm that rebuilt itself around a Michael Saylor-style bitcoin-maximalism playbook, is carrying an unrealized loss of more than $1 billion on its Bitcoin (BTC) position — and has spent at least $45 million on top of that simply to run the treasury, according to the company's own fiscal disclosures. The company paid $4.41 billion to accumulate 43,000 BTC at an average cost basis of $102,502 per coin, a figure 36% above Strategy's widely cited $75,385 basis. With BTC closing Friday near $77,600, the position sits roughly 24% underwater — a return that trails even idle cash left in a corporate bank account. The operating bill is substantial in its own right: since purchases began in April 2024, the firm's reports disclose at least ¥7 billion, about $45 million, of expenses tied to running the treasury — ¥4.5 billion in issuance costs, ¥1.9 billion of interest on a BTC-collateralized credit facility, ¥298 million in dividends to preferred shareholders and ¥4.8 billion in selling, general and administrative costs — with the true figure potentially exceeding $70 million depending on SG&A attribution. The financing structure explains where the strain concentrates. After issuing traditional coupon-bearing bonds in the summer of 2024, Metaplanet pivoted to zero-coupon bonds paired with moving-strike warrants as leverage climbed, shifting financing costs onto common shareholders through an overhang of dilutive convertibles. The low-cash-outlay approach eventually reversed: by June 30, 2026, the company had drawn $414 million of its $500 million BTC-backed credit line — 83% utilization — and first-quarter interest expense reached ¥934 million, more than 300 times the ¥3 million booked in the first half of 2025. Shares have roughly tripled since the heavy October 2024 buying wave yet closed the weekend down 82% from their June 2025 peak, a drawdown that has tested the conviction of even committed hodlers.

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Leveraged Longs Take the Brunt After the $81K Rejection

Bitcoin's August momentum has cooled. After rallying roughly 25% in about a week — from near $64,700 on August 18 to $81,237 on August 25 — the asset pushed back above $80,000 but could not establish a foothold in the $81,000–$84,000 zone, a band that on-chain analytics firm Glassnode flags as a major supply area where long-term holders and whales accumulated. The rejection flushed leveraged positioning hard: roughly $417.23 million in crypto derivatives were liquidated over the trailing 24 hours, with $287.09 million — about 69% of the total — coming from longs against $130.14 million from shorts. BTC slipped to around $78,200 by late Monday morning before drifting lower. The flows picture, the dominant thread in Bitcoin market news this week, shifted too. All nine trading sessions from August 17 through August 27 saw net inflows into US spot Bitcoin ETFs, totaling about $3.04 billion and extending the $3.52 billion taken in across August. On August 28 the streak snapped with $201.9 million in net outflows, though the week of August 24–28 still finished with about $924 million in net inflows. Ether funds told the opposite story that day, absorbing $102.1 million while Bitcoin vehicles bled. With a historically weak September ahead — the month has averaged a 2.87% loss — and a fresh House Intelligence Committee report stirring macro nerves, reclaiming the $81,000–$84,000 supply zone is the decisive test for the next leg higher. Readers tracking the market in real time can follow live spot and futures prices on Binance.

$76,944 Support Holds the Key

COINOTAG's proprietary 42-indicator composite S/R scoring engine places Bitcoin at $77,835, down 1.02% over 24 hours, wedged between the two most consequential levels on its board. The $76,944 support rates 79/100, driven by the confluence of the Swing Low, the S2 pivot and the ATR lower band, while the $78,996 resistance scores 88/100 on the Ichimoku Tenkan, R1 and ATR upper band. RSI at 67.53 with a bullish MACD keeps the broader uptrend intact, but a 0.0047% funding rate, $15.57 billion of open interest and a 1.17 long/short account ratio point to mild leverage crowding, amplified by a Fear & Greed Index reading of 69 (Greed). Holding $76,944 keeps a retest of the $85,888 band in play; losing it would invalidate the bullish setup and open the $73,151 support.