Will Strategy Sell Bitcoin This Year? Traders Are Convinced After Saylor Comments
TL;DR
Traders now believe there's an 82% chance that Michael Saylor's Bitcoin firm, Strategy, will sell some of its BTC this year. This follows Saylor's comments about selling to 'inoculate the market.'
Key points
- Traders favor an 82% chance of Strategy selling BTC this year
- Saylor's comments suggest selling to 'inoculate the market'
- Strategy holds over 818,000 BTC worth more than $65 billion
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In brief
- Predictors on Myriad now favor Michael Saylor's Bitcoin firm Strategy to offload some of its BTC this year.
- Odds have ballooned to 82% this week as Saylor made comments about the firm selling BTC to "inoculate the market."
- The firm maintains a stash of more than 818,000 BTC valued above $65 billion.
Will Strategy, the Bitcoin behemoth that has systematically accumulated more than $65 billion worth of BTC over the last six years, sell off some of its holdings this year? Users on prediction market platform Myriad increasingly believe it’ll happen.
Odds of the Virginia-based firm selling any BTC from its coffers this year have ballooned to 82% on Myriad—a product of Decrypt’s parent company, Dastan. That includes a gain of 69% in the last week of trading as the firm’s outspoken founder and chairman Michael Saylor said it “probably” would sell some Bitcoin.
"We'll probably sell some Bitcoin to fund a dividend just to inoculate the market—just to send the message that we did it,” Saylor said during the Strategy Q1 earnings call Q&A. His sentiments were echoed by Strategy President and CEO Phong Le, who said that the firm would sell Bitcoin when it was in the company’s and shareholders’ best interests.
“We will sell Bitcoin when it's advantageous to the company,” said Le on the earnings call. “We're not going to sit back and just say, 'We'll never sell the Bitcoin.’”
The message is a distinct shift in tone from Saylor’s previous pleas to his followers on social media which urged them to “never sell their Bitcoin.” The Bitcoin bull once also posted that users should “sell a kidney” if they needed to, but to hold onto the top crypto asset.
On Thursday, though, the Strategy frontman’s stance on X was, “Buy more Bitcoin than you sell.”
Buy more bitcoin than you sell.
— Michael Saylor (@saylor) May 7, 2026
But is Saylor’s recent commentary truly reflective of a strategy shift for the firm, or was he merely poking at skeptics?
Q&A
What percentage chance do traders give that Strategy will sell Bitcoin this year?
Traders currently estimate an 82% chance that Strategy will sell some of its Bitcoin this year.
Why is Michael Saylor considering selling Bitcoin from Strategy's holdings?
Michael Saylor mentioned the firm might sell Bitcoin to fund a dividend and to 'inoculate the market.'
How much Bitcoin does Strategy currently hold?
Strategy holds over 818,000 BTC, valued at more than $65 billion.
