{"id":4456,"date":"2026-06-06T07:29:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T07:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/06\/06\/crypto-kingpin-michael-saylor-under-fire-bearish-bets-surge-against-microstrategy-amid-bitcoin-bloodbath\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T07:29:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T07:29:22","slug":"crypto-kingpin-michael-saylor-under-fire-bearish-bets-surge-against-microstrategy-amid-bitcoin-bloodbath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/06\/06\/crypto-kingpin-michael-saylor-under-fire-bearish-bets-surge-against-microstrategy-amid-bitcoin-bloodbath\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto Kingpin Michael Saylor Under Fire: Bearish Bets Surge Against MicroStrategy Amid Bitcoin Bloodbath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Options traders are dramatically increasing their bearish bets against Michael Saylor&#8217;s MicroStrategy (MSTR) and its preferred stock (STRC) as Bitcoin plunges below $60,000. Significant put buying activity, partly driven by funds like WNTR, indicates a growing &#8216;Michael Saylor risk factor&#8217; is being priced in, especially as rising interest rates add further pressure to crypto-related investments.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div style=\"position: relative;padding-bottom: 56.25%;height: 0;overflow: hidden;max-width: 100%\"><\/div><figcaption>VIDEO: 1:41 Options flow shift bearish on crypto related stocks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/06\/05\/crypto-mutiny-on-strategy-shorts-target-mstr-in-bitcoin-bloodbath.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE FROM CNBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Options traders are dramatically increasing their bearish bets against Michael Saylor&#8217;s MicroStrategy (MSTR) and its preferred stock (STRC) as Bitcoin plunges below $60,000. Significant put buying activity, partly driven by funds like WNTR, indicates a growing &#8216;Michael Saylor risk factor&#8217; is being priced in, especially as rising interest rates add further pressure to crypto-related investments. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108317435-17806716531780671651-46365030280-1080pnbcnews.jpg?v=1780671652&w=750&h=422&vtcrop=y","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","category-technology","rifnote_executive-david-dziekanski","rifnote_executive-michael-saylor"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108317435-17806716531780671651-46365030280-1080pnbcnews.jpg?v=1780671652&w=750&h=422&vtcrop=y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}