Crypto’s Retail Traders Hit Hard as Strategy ETFs Plunge 80%

Retail investors who piled into Michael Saylor’s grand Bitcoin experiment are paying a heavy price. Strategy Inc. — the company once hailed for wrapping crypto exposure into a public stock — is scrambling to calm markets after its shares plunged more than 60% from recent highs, amid a sweeping digital-currency rout. On Monday, Strategy said it had created a $1.4 billion reserve to fund dividend and interest payments, hoping to calm fears that it may be forced to sell Bitcoin if prices fall further. Most ...