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Strategy, the company formerly known as MicroStrategy that turned itself into a publicly traded Bitcoin vault, is getting ready to go shopping again. CEO Phong Le confirmed on August 10 that the firm intends to resume its Bitcoin purchases before the end of 2026, after a brief period of net selling that had some investors nervously refreshing their portfolios.
The company has bought roughly 25 times more BTC than it has sold this year.
What happened to the stack
Strategy’s Bitcoin holdings currently sit at approximately 840,447 BTC, down from over 846,000 BTC earlier in 2026. Le characterized the sales as tactical moves designed to enhance the firm’s capital structure. In practical terms, that means the company needed some cash to shore up its balance sheet and normalize the value of its STRC preferred stock product, which had apparently drifted from where management wanted it.
The playbook going forward is straightforward: rebuild USD reserves first, get STRC trading where it should be, then resume the Bitcoin buying program.
The accumulation machine
Strategy has been on this path since 2020, when it first adopted Bitcoin as its primary treasury asset under executive chairman Michael Saylor’s guidance. The firm effectively rebranded around Bitcoin, dropping the MicroStrategy name in favor of something that more directly signals its identity as a crypto-native public entity.
Strategy has funded its Bitcoin purchases through a combination of convertible notes, preferred equity offerings including the STRC product, and straight equity raises.
Saylor, who remains executive chairman while Le handles the CEO duties, has been the philosophical architect of this approach. His thesis is that Bitcoin serves as a superior store of value compared to holding cash, and that a public company can use traditional capital markets to acquire it at scale.
Why the sales spooked people
For a company that built its entire brand around never selling Bitcoin, even modest disposals carry outsized symbolic weight. Le’s explanation was that the sales were about capital structure optimization rather than a loss of conviction. The 25-to-1 buy-to-sell ratio in 2026 supports this characterization.
If STRC drifts too far from its intended value, it can create problems for future capital raises, which in turn would limit Strategy’s ability to buy more Bitcoin. Selling some BTC to stabilize the preferred stock is, paradoxically, a move that supports future accumulation.
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