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Strategy Sells 1,638 BTC Below Cost to Fund Dividends and STRC Buybacks as Its Dollar Reserve Hits $4B

Verified · 4 Aug 2026BitcoinAug 4, 2026

Strategy is navigating a crisis in its Bitcoin treasury model, oscillating between forced BTC sales, purchase pauses, and resumed accumulation as STRC preferred stock stress and unrealized losses reshape its capital framework.

Strategy sold 1,638 BTC for about $105 million last week — roughly $64,000 a coin against an average cost near $75,400, its coins going out below what it paid — alongside some $290 million raised selling MSTR shares. It repurchased $81.2 million of STRC preferred, still trading near $89 against its $100 target, and lifted its dollar reserve to $4 billion, extending a buying pause past five weeks. Saylor separately said he has never sold his personal bitcoin, calling the company's sales "capital management."

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