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Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor posted two words on X on Aug. 30: “We’re Back.”
The postlanded on a Sunday, consistent with a pattern Saylor has repeated over several years. He has regularly dropped short, cryptic weekend posts ahead of formal Bitcoin (BTC) treasury purchase announcements on Monday mornings, and the market has learned to read them as forward signals.
Strategy’s last confirmed BTC purchase was on June 22. In the months that followed, the company paused accumulation and pivoted to balance sheet stabilization. It sold a portion of its BTC holdings to boost liquidity, then halted those sales. Large common stock offerings followed, which built a $5.1 billion US dollar reserve. Those same offerings generated a separate $1.59 billion cash pool. During the same period, the company used available capital to buy back its preferred stock, STRC, which had been trading below its $100 par value.
Strategy Built a $5.1B Reserve During Its Bitcoin Pause
STRC climbed as high as $98 on Aug. 29. Strategy is expected to continue buybacks to return it to $100. With nearly four years of preferred dividend coverage now secured, the math behind future capital deployment has shifted. New capital raised is more likely to go toward BTC purchases than toward adding to dollar reserves, making the “We’re Back” post credible to analysts who track the company’s capital allocation patterns.
Strategy holds 840,447 BTC at an average cost basis of approximately $75,385 per coin, making it the largestcorporate treasury holder of BTC among publicly listed companies. BTC was trading at $78,148 at the time of publication, per CoinMarketCap data, more than 2.5% above its Friday low. The recovery followed a hawkish speech by Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh at the Jackson Hole symposium. At that price level, Strategy’s overall BTC position moved back into positive territory on paper for the first time in several months.
Bitcoin dominance, a measure of BTC’s share of total crypto market capitalization, reached 59.56% at the time of publication, per CoinMarketCap data. MSTR shares were trading at $127.31 at the most recent market close. If Saylor’s post does precede a formal Monday announcement, it would end the longest gap in Strategy’s BTC accumulation program since the company began building its treasury position.
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No purchase size, asset target, or timeline has been publicly disclosed. Strategy has not commented on the post beyond its publication. The company’s pattern of weekend signals followed by Monday disclosures gives the post weight, but no confirmation has been issued.
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