Strategy Resumes Bitcoin Buys as Saylor Shifts Focus to 'Never Be a Net Seller'
Key takeaways
- “I m very famous for saying ‘never sell your Bitcoin.’ That s why the internet went crazy when we said we might sell it,” Saylor said in a podcast interview released over the weekend.
- Hours after the podcast, Strategy resumed its Bitcoin buys, scooping up 535 BTC for $43 million at an average price of $80,340 per coin, the company announced Monday.
- STRC is Strategy s perpetual preferred stock that pays a quarterly cash dividend and has become one of the most liquid preferred instruments in U.S. markets.
Strategy Resumes Bitcoin Buys as Saylor Shifts Focus to 'Never Be a Net Seller' Akash Girimath Mon, May 11, 2026 at 8:05 PM GMT+7 4 min read MSTR BTC-USD Bitcoin treasury firm Strategy resumed its BTC purchases this week, as the firm’s chairman Michael Saylor clarified his position after suggesting the company could offload a portion of its holdings to fund dividends.
“I m very famous for saying ‘never sell your Bitcoin.’ That s why the internet went crazy when we said we might sell it,” Saylor said in a podcast interview released over the weekend. “But if I was being more precise: never be a net seller of Bitcoin. It just wouldn t have been so viral.”
Hours after the podcast, Strategy resumed its Bitcoin buys, scooping up 535 BTC for $43 million at an average price of $80,340 per coin, the company announced Monday. The purchase came after the firm paused its BTC buys last week, and brought its total holdings to 818,869 BTC, worth some $61.9 billion.