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Strategy's average cost per Bitcoin is about $75,537, and its BTC investment is up about 7.6% at the time of this writing, according to data from the company. Michael Saylor, co-founder of Strategy, signaled that the Bitcoin treasury company will resume its BTC purchases this week, following an earnings call on Tuesday, during which he said the company may periodically sell portions of its treasury. ‘Back to work, BTC,’ Saylor said in an X post on Sunday, messaging that has previously preceded a BTC purchase, which typically the day after his posts. The company last purchased BTC on April 27, buying 3,273 coins for about $255 million, which brought its total holdings to 818,334 BTC. Those holdings were worth about $61.8 billion, according to Strategy's website at the time of publication. The company paused its BTC buying streak for one week ahead of Tuesday’s first quarter 2026 earnings call, in which Saylor said that the company could sell portions of its Bitcoin holdings periodically to pay dividends to holders of its credit instruments. The announcement appeared to contradict the company’s previous stance of never selling BTC, and the sales could weigh on Bitcoin's market price by introducing new selling pressure, critics of the move say. Bitcoin advocate Samson Mow said Strategy’s ability to sell BTC gives it optionality and greater room to maneuver in the financial markets. Others social media sentiment posited that Strategy’s Bitcoin sales and credit instruments will create a ‘doom loop’ that suppresses the spot market price of BTC. Strategy CEO Phong Le clarified that the company would only sell BTC in specific instances, including paying dividend yields and deferring taxes, and that neither its sales nor purchases should affect Bitcoin’s market price. Bitcoin's average daily trading volume of more than $60 billion could easily absorb Strategy’s $1.5 billion in annual dividend payments owed to holders of its corporate credit products, he said. ‘I don't think we're driving the price up or down,’ Le told CNBC, adding that the company owns about 4% of the total BTC supply.
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