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The convertible notes, preferred shares, and credit facilities that financed a large share of corporate Bitcoin holdings carry maturities, redemption windows, and dividend dates that determine when a company might need to sell.<\/p>\n

Matthew Sigel, VanEck’s head of digital assets research, shared a list of corporate Bitcoin treasuries that maps who ranks above the coins inside each company’s capital structure.<\/p>\n

Once Bitcoin sits inside a public company’s balance sheet, it stands beneath a stack of claims: creditors expecting repayment, preferred shareholders expecting distributions, lenders holding pledged coins, common shareholders wanting buybacks, and an operating business that needs cash to run.<\/p>\n

A payment, redemption, or maturity can force a company to sell Bitcoin on a fixed date, regardless of whether it still believes in the asset’s long-term price.<\/p>\n

One entry on Sigel’s list flags Bitdeer, which had fully emptied its Bitcoin treasury as of Feb. 20 to fund a pivot into AI data centers, a move later confirmed when the treasury fell to zero once the company sold 189.8 newly mined BTC and pulled 943.1 BTC from reserves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Claim above Bitcoin<\/th>\nInstrument or pressure<\/th>\nWhat creates the sell risk<\/th>\nWhy it matters<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Creditors<\/td>\nConvertible notes, senior debt<\/td>\nMaturity, repayment, refinancing failure<\/td>\nBTC may be sold even if management remains bullish<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Preferred shareholders<\/td>\nSTRC-style preferred stock<\/td>\nDividend dates, yield ratchets, par support<\/td>\nRecurring cash obligations turn BTC into liquidity<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Secured lenders<\/td>\nCredit facilities backed by pledged BTC<\/td>\nCollateral ratios, margin pressure, loan repayment<\/td>\nCoins may already be encumbered before a sale<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Common shareholders<\/td>\nBuybacks, mNAV pressure<\/td>\nStock trades below NAV or below par<\/td>\nSelling BTC can become more rational than issuing equity<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Operating business<\/td>\nCapex, payroll, strategic pivots<\/td>\nCash needs outside the treasury strategy<\/td>\nBTC can become working capital, as with Bitdeer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Reading Strategy’s balance sheet<\/h2>\n

Strategy’s own 10-K states its Bitcoin holdings function as a core component of its balance sheet and capital structure, providing the economic backing for its equity and fixed-income securities. The same filing ties that strategy to continued access to equity and debt financing.<\/p>\n

As of May 25, Strategy reported 843,738 BTC alongside $6.7 billion in convertible notes, $15.5 billion in preferred stock, and an $871 million cash reserve.<\/p>\n

That access came under real strain through STRC, Strategy’s variable-rate perpetual preferred stock. The stock held near par through mid-May 2026, then traded below it for 30 straight sessions as Bitcoin fell from an October high near $126,000 toward $58,000 in late June.<\/p>\n

In late May, Strategy sold 32 BTC for about $2.5 million to fund STRC distributions, its first Bitcoin sale since it began accumulating the asset in 2022. STRC kept falling, closing at $89 on June 18 and $83 two days later.<\/p>\n

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Strategy\u2019s 843,738 BTC supports a capital structure containing $6.7 billion in convertible notes, $15.5 billion in preferred stock and $871 million in cash.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Strategy paused the at-the-market program it uses to issue new shares and buy Bitcoin, since issuing stock below par would dilute existing holders.<\/p>\n

On June 29, Strategy answered with what it called a Digital Credit Capital Framework. The plan raised STRC’s dividend to 12% and added a ratchet that lifts the rate another 0.5 percentage points each time the stock closes below $95, adding roughly $53 million in annual obligations per trigger.<\/p>\n

The same announcement authorized a BTC Monetization Program permitting sales to fund the cash reserve, preferred dividends and interest, and buybacks of its own securities. It disclosed a reserve of about $2.55 billion at that point, enough to cover roughly 17.4 months of preferred dividends and interest, which it put at about $1.76 billion a year.<\/p>\n

Michael Saylor addressed the decline directly, saying that \u201cvolatility tests every capital structure\u201d on June 26.<\/p>\n

STRC still traded near $85 as of July 23, about 15% below par, with an effective yield above 13%. JPMorgan flagged the new sales policy as a source of two-way risk for Bitcoin markets, and Onramp Institutional estimated retail investors hold about $8.8 billion of STRC, roughly 83% of the buyer base.<\/p>\n

The same mechanics beyond Strategy<\/h2>\n

MARA sold 15,133 BTC in March to repurchase about $1 billion of convertible notes due 2030 and 2031.<\/p>\n

Its first-quarter filing said it sold roughly 20,880 BTC during the quarter, held 35,303 BTC at quarter’s end, and had loaned or pledged 9,995 BTC, including 4,253 BTC against a $150 million credit line.<\/p>\n

KULR’s 2026 filing shows the same mechanic at a smaller scale: a May drawdown carried a first-priority security interest in Bitcoin collateral, and the company pledged 300 BTC against the $15 million loan, above the minimum required.<\/p>\n

The treasury trade worked best when three conditions lined up: Bitcoin rose, shares traded above net asset value, and capital markets stayed open to new equity, converts, and preferred issuance.<\/p>\n

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Issuing new shares to buy Bitcoin adds Bitcoin per share and keeps the machine accumulating as long as the stock trades above that line.<\/p>\n

Once it falls below, new equity dilutes existing holders, and preferred and convertible issuance gets harder to place. The same machine can run in reverse: selling Bitcoin to fund buybacks, dividends or debt becomes the more rational move.<\/p>\n

Treasury companies pitched Bitcoin as reserve capital strong enough to anchor a balance sheet, financing the purchases with convertible debt and preferred stock that tied that same balance sheet to conditions outside any single company’s control: Bitcoin’s price, the mNAV premium, open capital markets, refinancing windows and serviceable preferred distributions.<\/p>\n

When those conditions weaken, a company may sell its most liquid asset to defend the financial structure it built around that Bitcoin.<\/p>\n

The calendar ahead<\/h2>\n

The sector has accumulated billions in debt and preferred financing, with maturities concentrated in 2027 and 2028.<\/p>\n

In the bull case, equity and preferred markets reopen, mNAV premiums return, and Bitcoin’s climb makes new issuance accretive again.<\/p>\n

Companies roll debt and preferred obligations without touching their core holdings, and calendar-driven selling stays close to 0.5% to 1.0% of the 1.285 million BTC public companies hold today, or roughly 6,400 to 12,900 coins over the next two years.<\/p>\n

In the bear case, refinancing gets difficult, mNAV discounts persist, and convertibles stay out of the money as Bitcoin weakens.<\/p>\n

Collateral haircuts widen, preferred distributions strain cash reserves, and calendar-driven selling climbs to 6% to 10% of public-company holdings, or roughly 77,100 to 128,500 BTC, arriving on a fixed schedule of maturities and payment dates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Scenario<\/th>\nMarket conditions<\/th>\nCorporate response<\/th>\nEstimated BTC supply over two years<\/th>\nMeaning for the market<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Bull case<\/td>\nBTC rises, mNAV premiums return, capital markets reopen<\/td>\nCompanies refinance, roll obligations and issue accretively<\/td>\n6,400\u201312,900 BTC<\/td>\nSelling remains tactical and limited<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Base case<\/td>\nBTC trades sideways, funding remains available but costly<\/td>\nCompanies selectively sell BTC for reserves, dividends or buybacks<\/td>\n25,700\u201351,400 BTC<\/td>\nBTC becomes a treasury-management tool, not just a reserve asset<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bear case<\/td>\nBTC weakens, mNAV discounts persist, convertibles stay out of the money<\/td>\nCompanies sell to meet maturities, preferred distributions and collateral pressure<\/td>\n77,100\u2013128,500 BTC<\/td>\nSelling becomes calendar-driven supply<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Stress case<\/td>\nOne large treasury company loses refinancing access<\/td>\nBTC sales, restructuring or collateral enforcement accelerates<\/td>\n192,800+ BTC<\/td>\nCorporate-held BTC is repriced as contingent supply<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The figure worth tracking for each company is how much of its Bitcoin sits free of debt, preferred claims and pledge agreements, and how much already has a creditor, a dividend or a maturity date in line before it.<\/p>\n

That breakdown will decide how much of the industry’s Bitcoin behaves like reserve capital, and how much behaves like collateral waiting on a due date.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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