In short
- Forecasters at Myriad now like Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin firm Strategy to unload some of his BTC this year.
- The odds reached 82% this week when Saylor said of the company selling BTC to “destroy the market.”
- The company holds more than 818,000 BTC worth more than $65 billion.
Will Strategy, and Bitcoin The behemoth that has raised more than $65 billion in BTC over the past six years, is it selling some of its holdings this year? Users of market prediction platform Myriad strongly believe it will happen.
Challenges of the Virginia company the sale of each BTC from its reserves this year has increased by 82% on Myriad-item of DecryptThe parent company, Dastan. This includes a profit of 69% in the last week of trading as the firm’s founder and chairman Michael Saylor said “maybe” to sell some Bitcoin.
“We will probably sell some Bitcoin to distribute money just to inoculate the market-just to send a message that we did it,” Saylor. it said during Strategy’s Q1 earnings call Q&A. His opinion agreed with Strategy President and CEO Phong Le, who said that it was hard to sell Bitcoin when it was in the interests of the company and its shareholders.
“We will sell Bitcoin when it is profitable for the company,” said Le on the receiving call. “We’re not going to sit back and say, ‘We’re not going to sell Bitcoin.’
The message is a stark contrast to Saylor’s appeal to his followers on social media who urged them to “never sell their Bitcoin again.” Bitcoin bull once again sent that users should “sell a kidney” if they need to, but to hold on to the high value of crypto.
On Thursday, however, the Strategy frontman’s opinion on X was, “Buy more Bitcoin than you sell.”
Buy more bitcoin than you sell.
– Michael Saylor (@saylor) May 7, 2026
But does Saylor’s latest comment really reflect the changing nature of the industry, or is it just targeting skeptics?
In the new comments for ChanceSaylor’s comments seem close to the past, supporting the idea that his company—until now a Bitcoin stronghold—could sell the assets that have helped him become famous.
“Haters…skeptics and small traders don’t realize that we’re only selling Bitcoin derivatives, and we have a chance to sell Bitcoin,” he told the publication. He added that in order to overcome the fake news that the company does not sell at all, the company must “show that you will sell Bitcoin to sell, or sell Bitcoin to meet the debts.”
Strategy was written by a $12.54 billion Q1 net loss earlier this week, due to unprecedented large losses on his Bitcoin holdings as the top crypto asset fell sharply from its October peak to $126,080. It is now 36.5% off the mark as it changed hands at around $80,058 on Friday – almost even in the last 24 hours of trading, and is now up 12% in the last 30 days.
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