{"id":625150,"date":"2026-07-06T12:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T12:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=829072"},"modified":"2026-07-06T12:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T12:15:10","slug":"strategy-sells-3588-bitcoin-for-216-million-to-cover-dividend-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/06\/strategy-sells-3588-bitcoin-for-216-million-to-cover-dividend-payments\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategy Sells 3,588 Bitcoin for $216 Million to Cover Dividend Payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/community-clashes-over-strategys-first-bitcoin-sale-in-4-years-as-mstr-craters-7_nwmk-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Strategy founder Michael Saylor.\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Strategy sold 3,588 bitcoin for $216 million to cover dividend payments on its preferred stock, according to a Monday morning post from co-founder Michael Saylor. The sale brings Strategy\u2019s bitcoin reserve down to 843,775 BTC as of July 5, 2026. The company also holds $2.55 billion in cash reserves, Saylor remarked. Saylor confirmed the money [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strategy sold 3,588 bitcoin for $216 million to cover dividend payments on its preferred stock, according to a Monday morning post from co-founder Michael Saylor. The sale brings Strategy\u2019s bitcoin reserve down to 843,775 BTC as of July 5, 2026. The company also holds $2.55 billion in cash reserves, Saylor remarked. Saylor confirmed the money [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":625151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-625150","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625150","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=625150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}