In the latest Bitcoin News Today update, Strategy CEO Phong Le has confirmed the company plans to get back to buying more Bitcoins later this year. The announcement, made during a live interview, comes after months of small, tactical sales that had raised questions among traders following BTC price today.
Le laid out the numbers plainly. Strategy purchased roughly 175,000 $BTC in 2026 and sold only 7,000 $BTC over the same stretch. That works out to a 25-to-1 buy-to-sell ratio, a figure that pushes back hard against any narrative that the firm is quietly stepping away from BTC.
Strategy's recent sales are not one-off decisions. They fall under a formal policy the company adopted in June 2026, called the Digital Credit Capital Framework. This framework sets clear rules for when and why MicroStrategy can sell part of its $BTC position, tying any sale to specific goals like building cash reserves, funding dividends, or supporting share buybacks.
Recent sales carried out under that program include:
May 2026: several smaller sales began, marking the start of active treasury management
Late June to early July 2026: larger sales added meaningfully to the cash reserve
July to early August 2026: continued sales supported STRC dividend and repurchase needs
August 3 to 9, 2026: 1,690 BTC sold for about $108.6 million at an average price near $64,262
Source: Official $BTC Ledger
The framework also covers MicroStrategy's USD reserve policy, adjustments to STRC dividends, and share repurchase authorizations. Company leadership has been clear that the program favors balance-sheet strength and steady Bitcoin-per-share growth over an unconditional buy-and-hold approach.
BTC price today stands near $64K, slighty down. Here are the major numbers as per CoinMarketCap right now:
Price: $64,204.45, down 0.31% over the past 24 hours
Market cap: $1.28 trillion, down 0.32% over the same period
24-hour trading volume: $22.69 billion, up 2.12%
Fully diluted valuation: $1.34 trillion
Circulating supply: 20.06 million BTC against a 21 million max supply
Tracked corporate treasury holdings across the market now stand near 1.34 million BTC
Strategy, once known as MicroStrategy under ticker MSTR, remains the largest corporate holder of $BTC anywhere in the world. Key figures from company filings as of August 9, 2026:
Total holdings: 840,447 BTC, close to 4% of 21 million supply cap
Average purchase price: around $75,385 per coin
Total cost basis: roughly $63.36 billion
Most recent sale: 1,690 BTC sold between August 3 and 9 for about $108.6 million
Those figures place Strategy Bitcoin holdings well above any rival public company, and the gap has only widened through 2026.
Every recent Strategy Bitcoin Sale has served a narrow purpose: funding dividends and building a cushion for the company's preferred stock program, STRC. Proceeds from these sales helped grow the firm's cash position to roughly $4.65 billion, enough to cover close to 2.7 years of dividend obligations.
Le said the sales taught the leadership team something useful. Institutional investors and short-term holders, he explained, tend to place more weight on available cash than on $BTC that sits locked away as a long-term reserve. That lesson shaped the company's approach going forward, alongside continued equity raises through its at-the-market program.
Executive Chairman Michael Saylor has kept a consistent message through the recent activity. He has said his personal advice to hold Bitcoins forever applies to individual savers, not to a public company managing dividends and credit obligations. Saylor has repeatedly noted he has never sold a single satoshi from his own holdings.
Saylor continues to describe $BTC as digital capital and frames STRC as a bridge connecting Bitcoin, stablecoins, and credit markets. He has also pointed to growing AI infrastructure demand as part of the broader digital asset landscape MicroStrategy operates within.
Reaction across trading circles shifted once Le's numbers became public. Early criticism over any sale at all gave way to a broader view that treasury management and long-term accumulation can coexist. Strategy stocks moved on the update as investors weighed the resumed buying plan against a still-massive Bitcoin position.
$BTC price today sits well below Strategy's average purchase cost, leaving the position underwater on paper. Even so, the company has stressed it faces no pressure to sell further. With buying set to resume later in 2026, this remains one of the top stories in Bitcoin News Today and across BTC news broadly.
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