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Bitcoin Is No Longer Safe - The Problem With Bitcoin Today
Bitcoin was created to be the people's money, decentralized, distributed, owned by everyone and controlled by no one, a financial system where no single person, company, or government could hold enough of it to move the market on their own terms.
That was the promise, that was the whole point.
And then Michael Saylor showed up.
Right now, Strategy, the company formerly known as MicroStrategy, holds approximately 843,738 $BTC as of May 2026, to understand how big that number is, Strategy's Bitcoin reserves account for over 60% of all Bitcoin held by publicly traded companies worldwide, and Michael Saylor has even stated a goal of accumulating between 5% and 7% of the total Bitcoin supply.
Read that again, one man, one company, five to seven percent of an asset that was designed to belong to everyone.
This is not a celebration, this is a problem, and most of the Bitcoin community is too busy cheering the price to notice it.
How Did We Get Here
Strategy's aggressive Bitcoin acquisition model began in August 2020 with a $250 million purchase, and since then the company has transformed from a business intelligence software provider into a Bitcoin treasury powerhouse.
The company primarily relies on zero coupon convertible notes, which allow Strategy to borrow money without paying regular interest, giving investors the option to convert debt into company stock at a premium price, effectively providing Strategy with free capital if the stock price rises, in fiscal year 2025 alone, Strategy raised $25 billion through a combination of convertible debt and equity offerings.
In simple terms, Saylor figured out how to use Wall Street's own tools to buy as much Bitcoin as possible, borrow money, issue stock, collect more capital, buy more Bitcoin, repeat, and as long as Bitcoin's price keeps going up, the whole machine keeps running.
The problem is what happens when it stops.
Satoshi Nakamoto created Bitcoin so that no central authority could control it, the whole design, the fixed supply of 21 million coins, the decentralized network, the peer to peer transactions, all of it was built around one core idea, no single entity should have too much power over Bitcoin asset.
Strategy now owns over 3% of the circulating supply of Bitcoin, making it one of the top five Bitcoin holders, sitting behind only crypto exchange Coinbase, Satoshi Nakamoto's estimated holdings, and BlackRock.
When one company holds that much of any asset, the market is no longer free, every time Saylor decides to buy, the price moves, every time he is forced to sell, the price crashes, the asset that was supposed to be outside the control of powerful institutions has quietly become dependent on the decisions of one man sitting in Virginia.
That is not decentralization, that is a different kind of centralization wearing a Bitcoin hoodie.
And the community celebrates every purchase like it is a victory, when what it actually represents is a single point of failure that did not exist five years ago.
What Could Force Saylor to Sell
This is the conversation nobody in the Bitcoin community wants to have, because as long as you believe Bitcoin only goes up forever, the Strategy position looks like genius, but markets do not only go up forever, and there are several very real scenarios that could force Strategy to liquidate a significant portion of its holdings.
Debt obligations coming due
Strategy's own SEC filings acknowledge that if any of its convertible notes mature or are redeemed without being converted into common stock, or if the company elects to redeem or repurchase its instruments, it may be required to sell shares of its common stock or Bitcoin to generate sufficient cash proceeds to satisfy those obligations.
This is not speculation, this is in their own legal filings, the debt machine that built the Bitcoin stack could be the exact same thing that forces them to unwind it.
Preferred dividend obligations
Strategy's reliance on perpetual preferred dividends forces it to sell Bitcoin during downturns, accelerating losses, preferred stock dividend payments are expected to rise significantly, and with Strategy's projected revenue sitting at $475 million in 2025, the company depends almost entirely on financing to cover its fixed income obligations, and the ability to raise new capital is directly contingent on the price of Bitcoin.
If Bitcoin drops hard and stays down, the capital markets that have been funding this strategy close up, and when the capital stops coming in, the bills still need to be paid.
Regulatory action
The US government has shown it has no problem seizing and selling Bitcoin when it wants to, Strategy's own risk disclosures include changes in securities laws or regulations relating to Bitcoin that could adversely affect the price of Bitcoin or the company's ability to transact in or own it, a hostile regulatory environment, a forced restructuring, a government order, any of these could trigger a sell that the market is simply not prepared to absorb.
A sustained bear market
The recursive nature of Strategy's capital structure creates a downward spiral risk, if Bitcoin's price drops significantly, the company's framework could trigger additional equity issuance, further diluting Bitcoin per share and shareholder value, the company's stock experienced consistent monthly losses from July through December 2025, including a 34% decline in November alone, a prolonged bear market does not just hurt Strategy's portfolio, it weakens the entire financial structure that the Bitcoin buying depends on.
Michael Saylor himself
This is the one people find most uncomfortable to say out loud, the entire strategy is built around one man's conviction, Saylor is not immortal, he is not untouchable, a health event, a legal situation, a change in leadership, a board that decides this experiment has gone far enough, any of these could put hundreds of billions of dollars worth of Bitcoin into the hands of people who do not share his vision and have fiduciary duties that do not include holding Bitcoin forever.
What a Large Scale Sell Would Actually Do
Strategy's total Bitcoin holdings are currently valued in the tens of billions of dollars, there is no precedent for an entity of this size unwinding a Bitcoin position, the market has never had to absorb anything close to it.
When large holders sell Bitcoin the price drops, when a holder of this size begins selling, the drop would not be gradual, it would be a cascade, every algorithmic trader, every overleveraged futures position, every retail investor watching the chart would see the price moving and begin reacting, and each reaction would push the price further down, triggering more liquidations, more panic, more selling.
The very thing that made Bitcoin's price go up when Saylor was buying would work in brutal reverse on the way out, and the people who would be hurt most are not the institutions, they have risk management desks and hedges and teams of lawyers, the people who would be hurt most are the ordinary retail investors who bought Bitcoin because they believed in what it was supposed to represent.
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That was the promise, that was the whole point.
And then Michael Saylor showed up.
Right now, Strategy, the company formerly known as MicroStrategy, holds approximately 843,738 $BTC as of May 2026, to understand how big that number is, Strategy's Bitcoin reserves account for over 60% of all Bitcoin held by publicly traded companies worldwide, and Michael Saylor has even stated a goal of accumulating between 5% and 7% of the total Bitcoin supply.
Read that again, one man, one company, five to seven percent of an asset that was designed to belong to everyone.
This is not a celebration, this is a problem, and most of the Bitcoin community is too busy cheering the price to notice it.
How Did We Get Here
Strategy's aggressive Bitcoin acquisition model began in August 2020 with a $250 million purchase, and since then the company has transformed from a business intelligence software provider into a Bitcoin treasury powerhouse.
The company primarily relies on zero coupon convertible notes, which allow Strategy to borrow money without paying regular interest, giving investors the option to convert debt into company stock at a premium price, effectively providing Strategy with free capital if the stock price rises, in fiscal year 2025 alone, Strategy raised $25 billion through a combination of convertible debt and equity offerings.
In simple terms, Saylor figured out how to use Wall Street's own tools to buy as much Bitcoin as possible, borrow money, issue stock, collect more capital, buy more Bitcoin, repeat, and as long as Bitcoin's price keeps going up, the whole machine keeps running.
The problem is what happens when it stops.
Satoshi Nakamoto created Bitcoin so that no central authority could control it, the whole design, the fixed supply of 21 million coins, the decentralized network, the peer to peer transactions, all of it was built around one core idea, no single entity should have too much power over Bitcoin asset.
Strategy now owns over 3% of the circulating supply of Bitcoin, making it one of the top five Bitcoin holders, sitting behind only crypto exchange Coinbase, Satoshi Nakamoto's estimated holdings, and BlackRock.
When one company holds that much of any asset, the market is no longer free, every time Saylor decides to buy, the price moves, every time he is forced to sell, the price crashes, the asset that was supposed to be outside the control of powerful institutions has quietly become dependent on the decisions of one man sitting in Virginia.
That is not decentralization, that is a different kind of centralization wearing a Bitcoin hoodie.
And the community celebrates every purchase like it is a victory, when what it actually represents is a single point of failure that did not exist five years ago.
What Could Force Saylor to Sell
This is the conversation nobody in the Bitcoin community wants to have, because as long as you believe Bitcoin only goes up forever, the Strategy position looks like genius, but markets do not only go up forever, and there are several very real scenarios that could force Strategy to liquidate a significant portion of its holdings.
Debt obligations coming due
Strategy's own SEC filings acknowledge that if any of its convertible notes mature or are redeemed without being converted into common stock, or if the company elects to redeem or repurchase its instruments, it may be required to sell shares of its common stock or Bitcoin to generate sufficient cash proceeds to satisfy those obligations.
This is not speculation, this is in their own legal filings, the debt machine that built the Bitcoin stack could be the exact same thing that forces them to unwind it.
Preferred dividend obligations
Strategy's reliance on perpetual preferred dividends forces it to sell Bitcoin during downturns, accelerating losses, preferred stock dividend payments are expected to rise significantly, and with Strategy's projected revenue sitting at $475 million in 2025, the company depends almost entirely on financing to cover its fixed income obligations, and the ability to raise new capital is directly contingent on the price of Bitcoin.
If Bitcoin drops hard and stays down, the capital markets that have been funding this strategy close up, and when the capital stops coming in, the bills still need to be paid.
Regulatory action
The US government has shown it has no problem seizing and selling Bitcoin when it wants to, Strategy's own risk disclosures include changes in securities laws or regulations relating to Bitcoin that could adversely affect the price of Bitcoin or the company's ability to transact in or own it, a hostile regulatory environment, a forced restructuring, a government order, any of these could trigger a sell that the market is simply not prepared to absorb.
A sustained bear market
The recursive nature of Strategy's capital structure creates a downward spiral risk, if Bitcoin's price drops significantly, the company's framework could trigger additional equity issuance, further diluting Bitcoin per share and shareholder value, the company's stock experienced consistent monthly losses from July through December 2025, including a 34% decline in November alone, a prolonged bear market does not just hurt Strategy's portfolio, it weakens the entire financial structure that the Bitcoin buying depends on.
Michael Saylor himself
This is the one people find most uncomfortable to say out loud, the entire strategy is built around one man's conviction, Saylor is not immortal, he is not untouchable, a health event, a legal situation, a change in leadership, a board that decides this experiment has gone far enough, any of these could put hundreds of billions of dollars worth of Bitcoin into the hands of people who do not share his vision and have fiduciary duties that do not include holding Bitcoin forever.
What a Large Scale Sell Would Actually Do
Strategy's total Bitcoin holdings are currently valued in the tens of billions of dollars, there is no precedent for an entity of this size unwinding a Bitcoin position, the market has never had to absorb anything close to it.
When large holders sell Bitcoin the price drops, when a holder of this size begins selling, the drop would not be gradual, it would be a cascade, every algorithmic trader, every overleveraged futures position, every retail investor watching the chart would see the price moving and begin reacting, and each reaction would push the price further down, triggering more liquidations, more panic, more selling.
The very thing that made Bitcoin's price go up when Saylor was buying would work in brutal reverse on the way out, and the people who would be hurt most are not the institutions, they have risk management desks and hedges and teams of lawyers, the people who would be hurt most are the ordinary retail investors who bought Bitcoin because they believed in what it was supposed to represent.
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