{"id":596757,"date":"2026-05-09T22:53:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T22:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/09\/strategy-ceo-phong-le-says-company-will-sell-btc-only-in-specific-cases\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T22:53:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T22:53:28","slug":"strategy-ceo-phong-le-says-company-will-sell-btc-only-in-specific-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/09\/strategy-ceo-phong-le-says-company-will-sell-btc-only-in-specific-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategy CEO Phong Le says company will sell BTC only in specific cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy1pbWFnZXMuY3RtZWRpYS5pby9tZWRpYS9hcnRpY2xlLWNvdmVycy9oaS1ob3ctdG8tc2VsbC1yaXBwbGUtZm9yLXVzZC1vci1iaXRjb2luLmpwZw==.jpg\" alt=\"Strategy CEO Phong Le says company will sell BTC only in specific cases\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Strategy&#8217;s Bitcoin sales will not move the markets, despite it owning more than 4% of the digital currency&#8217;s maximum supply, Le said.\n<\/p>\n<p>Phong Le, the CEO of Bitcoin treasury company Strategy, outlined conditions during an interview on Friday, under which the company would sell some of its Bitcoin holdings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The company will sell Bitcoin to pay the dividend on its Series A Perpetual Stretch Preferred Stock (STRC), a corporate credit instrument that <a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/strategy-raises-strc-dividend-11-50\"><span>pays an 11.5% dividend<\/span><\/a> to holders, and to defer or offset taxes, Le <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/phongle\/status\/2052822744790630521\"><span>told<\/span><\/a> CNBC. He added:<\/p>\n<p>Le added that the company would only sell BTC to pay for the yield owed to holders of its credit instruments if the sales are \u201caccretive\u201d to Strategy\u2019s shareholders, meaning the company increases the BTC per share metric.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/strategy-ceo-phong-le-strategy-selling-btc\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strategy&#8217;s Bitcoin sales will not move the markets, despite it owning more than 4% of the digital currency&#8217;s maximum supply, Le said. Phong Le, the CEO of Bitcoin treasury company Strategy, outlined conditions during an interview on Friday, under which the company would sell some of its Bitcoin holdings.\u00a0 The company will sell Bitcoin to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":596758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-596757","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}