{"id":11460,"date":"2026-08-04T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T10:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/?p=11460"},"modified":"2026-08-04T10:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T10:00:09","slug":"michael-saylor-says-hes-never-sold-bitcoin-despite-strategys-recent-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptonews.uk.com\/?p=11460","title":{"rendered":"Michael Saylor Says He&#8217;s Never Sold Bitcoin Despite Strategy&#8217;s Recent Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div id=\"blockquote-block_e67d76c8ed05a8b67d89fd6645647f76\" class=\"blockquote-container\" style=\"border-color: #5100fc\">\n<div class=\"blockquote-text\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Strategy sold 1,638 BTC for US$104.73 million between 27 July and 2 August, at an average US$63,957 a coin.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The company\u2019s average purchase price stands at US$75,419, putting the sale about 15% below what it paid.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Michael Saylor, Strategy\u2019s executive chairman, said on X that he has never sold his own Bitcoin, a holding no company filing covers.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Michael Saylor said he has never sold any of his own Bitcoin on the same day Strategy disclosed selling 1,638 BTC for US$104.73 million (AU$149.8 million), at an average price roughly 15% below what the company paid for its coins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhen I say \u2018Never Sell Your Bitcoin,\u2019 I speak as one saver to another. I have never sold mine. Not one satoshi,\u201d Saylor wrote on X on Monday.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\"\/>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Strategy sold the coins between 27 July and 2 August at an average US$63,957 (AU$91,459), according to a Form 8-K filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Against an average purchase price of US$75,419 (AU$107,849), the company took a loss on every coin it moved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Related: Crypto Adoption Surges in Canada as Ownership Jumps to 25%<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-proceeds-did-not-buy-more-bitcoin\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Proceeds Did Not Buy More Bitcoin<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">US$52.4 million (AU$74.9 million) went to dividends on Strategy\u2019s preferred stock and US$52.3 million (AU$74.8 million) funded repurchases of its STRC shares, the filing states. Holdings finished at 842,138 BTC on 2 August, down from 847,363 in late June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Strategy\u2019s disclosures cover the company\u2019s treasury. A director\u2019s personal Bitcoin falls outside those reporting rules, and the Form 4s that track insider dealing apply to company securities, so Saylor\u2019s statement rests on his own account.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Monday\u2019s filing was the third this year to disclose Bitcoin sales, after ones in June and July. Together they cover 5,258 BTC sold for about US$323.2 million (AU$462.2 million), including the 3,588 BTC that raised US$216 million (AU$308.9 million) across late June and early July. Strategy\u2019s weekly filings have recorded no Bitcoin purchases since 22 June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saylor first floated selling Bitcoin to cover the dividends owed on Strategy\u2019s preferred stack earlier this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company\u2019s US dollar reserve, which it maintains to meet those dividends and interest costs, reached US$4 billion (AU$5.72 billion) on 2 August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Read more: Crypto Exchanges Race into Tokenised Stocks and Commodities as Competition Intensifies\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Bitcoin,Michael Saylor#Michael #Saylor #Hes #Sold #Bitcoin #Strategys #Sales1785837609<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strategy sold 1,638 BTC for US$104.73 million between 27 July and 2 August, at an average US$63,957 a coin. The company\u2019s average purchase price stands at US$75,419, putting the sale about 15% below what it paid. 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