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Prediction market users on Myriad are increasingly betting that Strategy, Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin-focused firm, will sell some of its BTC holdings this year. Odds for the Virginia-based company to offload any Bitcoin have risen to 82% this week, after Saylor indicated the firm may sell to “inoculate the market.”
On Myriad, the odds that Strategy will sell any Bitcoin during 2026 climbed to 82%. The move followed comments from Strategy’s founder and chairman, Michael Saylor, during the firm’s Q1 earnings call Q&A, where he said the company “probably” would sell some Bitcoin.
Saylor said the firm would likely sell to fund a dividend and send a signal to the market: “We’ll probably sell some Bitcoin to fund a dividend just to inoculate the market—just to send the message that we did it.”
Strategy President and CEO Phong Le echoed the idea, saying sales would occur when beneficial to the company and shareholders. “We will sell Bitcoin when it's advantageous to the company,” Le said. “We're not going to sit back and just say that we’ll never sell the Bitcoin.”
The comments represent a departure from earlier messaging in which Saylor urged followers to hold Bitcoin and suggested selling only if necessary. The article notes that Saylor previously posted that users should “never sell their Bitcoin,” and also encouraged people to “sell a kidney” if they needed to while still holding Bitcoin.
More recently, Saylor’s public stance on X included: “Buy more Bitcoin than you sell” (May 7, 2026).
In additional remarks to Fortune, Saylor suggested the firm’s position is not necessarily a permanent change, but rather a clarification of how Strategy can act. He said the “haters… the skeptics and the short-sellers don’t recognize that we’re just selling a Bitcoin derivative, and we have the option to sell the Bitcoin.”
Saylor added that to counter the narrative that Strategy would never sell, the firm would need to demonstrate trading activity—either by “trade the Bitcoin back for the stock” or by “trade the Bitcoin to meet the liabilities.”
Strategy reported a $12.54 billion Q1 net loss earlier this week, attributed in part to large unrealized losses on its Bitcoin holdings as the asset declined from its October all-time high of $126,080.
Bitcoin was described as trading around $80,058 on Friday, roughly flat over the last 24 hours and up 12% over the last 30 days. The article also states that Bitcoin is 36.5% below its October all-time high.
Strategy’s holdings are described as exceeding 818,000 BTC, valued above $65 billion.
With Myriad odds at 82% and Saylor’s comments pointing to possible sales to fund dividends and address market messaging, market participants are increasingly focused on whether Strategy will convert some of its Bitcoin exposure into cash this year.
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