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When the largest holder starts selling to pay dividends, BTC’s “corporate bond” attribute is degrading back into a “working capital” attribute.
The “never sell your coins” Saylor finally moved against BTC.
“Never sell your bitcoin.”
Saylor has posted this tweet countless times. Not selling in a bull market, not selling in a bear market, even with bankruptcy rumors flying everywhere—still not selling.
On June 1, 2026, Strategy suddenly produced a filed 8-K document—selling 32 bitcoins. Average price: $77,135. Cashing out: $2.5 million, all used to pay preferred stock dividends.
This isn’t a Signal. This is gunfire.
What is 32 bitcoins compared to a position of 840k? Only 0.004% of the total holdings—less than the average daily buying amount over the past 12 months. But this has nothing to do with money.
This is about Status. It’s the “never sell your coins” narrative, nailed to paper by an official document for the first time.
Scale doesn’t matter; the nature is deadly.
Back in December 2022, he sold 704 BTC for tax-loss harvesting, and the next day bought back 810 at a lower price. The market treated it like accounting magic and didn’t take it seriously.
What about this time? No repurchase, no hedging, no promise of “I’ll buy back later.” Just sell—pay dividends—follow the process.
You have to get one thing straight: starting in early 2025, Strategy has been issuing preferred stock aggressively. STRK pays 8% annual interest, STRF 10%, STRD 10%, and STRC 11.5%. The four layers stack on top of each other—cumulative dividends have already exceeded $693 million. The $2.25 billion cash reserve established in December 2025 was down to only $900 million by the end of May 2026; they burned through $1.35 billion in half a year.
You think these 32 coins are a “one-time operation”? Wrong. This is a door kicked open.
On the Q1 earnings call, CEO Phong Le, for the first time, listed “disciplined selling of Bitcoin” as a tool for capital management. The CEO said it himself. Back then, nobody cared.
Now, looking back—that was the real preview.
Saylor’s talking points are the most poisonous
After the document was made public, what did Saylor say on X? He didn’t mention selling coins. He only talked about STRC’s product positioning, saying Strategy wants to make STRC “the best credit tool in the world.”
He sidestepped the core issue and avoided the main point.
Even more ruthless: he preemptively “vaccinated” the market. In early May, he said, “Even if we sell a single bitcoin, we will buy back 10 to 20.” He also said, “We may sell some bitcoins to pay dividends—just consider it giving the market a shot of a vaccine.”
The logic chain goes like this:
If BTC is the ultimate asset, why do you need to sell it to maintain the credibility of a fiat-backed standard? If you don’t sell, credit rating agencies think your assets can’t be liquidated well, giving you a low score. If you sell, you break the sacred vow of “never sell.”
Blocked at both ends—perfect. It breaks faith and hedges risk at the same time. High, really high.
Data doesn’t lie: what happened after the selling?
After the 8-K was released on June 1:
BTC fell below $72,000 per coin.
Within an hour, over $93 million in futures positions were liquidated, and 95% were long positions.
MSTR dropped about 6% before the market opened, and fell 6% on the day—still about 65% below the summer 2025 high.
U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs saw outflows of more than $1.5 billion, setting a record for the largest fund withdrawal in 2026.
The market doesn’t believe the narrative. The market only believes actions.
The most ironic footnote: a $50 million betting brawl on Polymarket
The timing of this bitcoin selling triggered an enormous joke.
There’s a market on Polymarket asking whether “Strategy will sell Bitcoin before May 31.” Trading volume exceeded $111 million. Strategy completed the selling between May 26 and 31, but only filed the 8-K on June 1.
The controversy: does the “actual sale date” matter, or the “public disclosure date”?
The “Yes” side says: The 8-K clearly states “by 4:00 PM Eastern Time on May 31, 2026.”
The “No” side says: It was only disclosed on June 1; market settlement had already passed, so it doesn’t count.
Fate was handed to UMA token holders. Ironically, UMA’s voting power is highly concentrated—over 60% of active voters are linked to Polymarket accounts.
A bet with thousands upon thousands of words, ultimately decided by the same group of people. The crypto world really is absurd.
The most painful truth
A KOL put it well: “MicroStrategy selling Bitcoin is, in essence, Wall Street’s complete unmasking of cryptocurrencies.”
These 32 BTC don’t matter. Neither do 320, nor 3,200.
What matters is—that the “only buy, never sell” narrative is gone.
If Strategy forms a future pattern of “monthly scheduled de-risking,” the world’s largest BTC “sponge” will stop absorbing liquidity and start acting like a “water tap.”
A “sponge” that has soaked up for four years—if it starts releasing water—who will prop up this market?
Previously, Saylor was Bitcoin’s most steadfast “digital gold” evangelist.
Today, he personally turned BTC into operational capital on his own books.
This isn’t betrayal. It’s capitalism. And it makes the market tremble more than any betrayal ever could. #分享美股交易赢英伟达股票 #成长值抽奖赢金条 $BTC $ETH