Strategy CEO plans to resume Bitcoin accumulation this year

Strategy, the company formerly known as MicroStrategy that turned itself into a publicly traded Bitcoin vault, is getting ready to go shopping again. CEO Phong Le confirmed on August 10 that the firm intends to resume its Bitcoin purchases before the end of 2026, after a brief period of net selling that had some investors nervously refreshing their portfolios. The company has bought roughly 25 times more BTC than it has sold this year. What happened to the stack Strategy’s Bitcoin holdings currently sit at approximately 840,447 BTC, down from over 846,000 BTC earlier in 2026. Le characterized the sales as tactical moves designed to enhance the firm’s capital structure. In practical terms, that means the company needed some cash to shore up its balance sheet and normalize the value of its STRC preferred stock product, which had apparently drifted from where management wanted it. The playbook going forward is straightforward: rebuild USD reserves first, get STRC trading where it should be, then resume the Bitcoin buying program. The accumulation machine Strategy has been on this path since 2020, when it first adopted Bitcoin as its primary treasury asset under executive chairman Mich...