$BTC Michael Saylor floated Bitcoin sales idea to avoid 'impairing' the asset
Latest NewsPublishedMay 17, 2026
Strategy executive chairman Michael Saylor said that continuing to use the “never sell” Bitcoin mantra could ultimately undermine the very asset his company is built around.

Strategy executive chairman Michael Saylor said he raised the possibility of selling Bitcoin during Strategy's recent earnings call to protect the asset's long-term interests.
“We own about $65 billion worth of Bitcoin. If the market thought we would never sell it, the credit rating agencies would say, Well then, I guess it’s not an asset,” Saylor told Scott Melker on The Wolf Of All Streets podcast published to YouTube on May 10.
“There is $20 to $100 billion of liquidity in the Bitcoin market that is not correlated to our equity or to our credit. If we were to say we’re never going to take advantage of that liquidity and we’re never going to use that asset, then we’re impairing the asset, which 98% of the company is built on,” Saylor explained, adding:
“It’s pretty important to us to send the signal that if we need to, we can.”
It comes after growing speculation within the Bitcoin community after Saylor said during Strategy’s first-quarter earnings call that his company could sell Bitcoin to “inoculate” the market against sudden panic or to reinforce confidence in the company, in contrast to its long-standing “never sell” Bitcoin strategy.

Michael Saylor spoke to Scott Melker on The Wolf Of All Streets podcast. Source: The Wolf Of All Streets
Bitcoiners began to speculate on social media. Prominent Bitcoiner and BnkToTheFuture CEO Simon Dixon said on May 7 that Strategy “might need to sell some Bitcoin when the financial industrial complex manipulates our Bitcoin collateralized debt obligations and perpetual dividends wrappers.”
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