{"id":57119,"date":"2025-11-06T17:16:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T17:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=57119"},"modified":"2025-11-06T17:16:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T17:16:31","slug":"michael-saylors-bitcoin-plan-has-a-cost-strategy-must-pay-689m-just-to-hodl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=57119","title":{"rendered":"Michael Saylor&#8217;s Bitcoin Plan Has A Cost \u2014 Strategy Must Pay $689M Just To HODL"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Strategy Inc. <\/strong>(NASDAQ:<a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/MSTR\">MSTR<\/a>) faces rising costs to maintain its massive <strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) treasury, with annual obligations now topping $689 million, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/11\/48693117\/jpmorgan-says-bitcoin-has-67-upside-sees-170000-within-next-6-months\">a new report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Company&#8217;s Bitcoin Treasury Comes With Heavy Burden<\/h3>\n<p>Strategy Inc., formerly MicroStrategy, holds about $66 billion in bitcoin and plans to never sell its holdings.<\/p>\n<p>That goal, however, comes with large yearly cash commitments for debt coupons, preferred dividends, and operating costs.<\/p>\n<p>According to Protos, Strategy <a href=\"https:\/\/protos.com\/strategy-needs-to-pay-689m-a-year-to-not-sell-bitcoin\/\">reported<\/a> annualized dividend and interest expenses of $689 million as of Oct. 24, a figure expected to grow.<\/p>\n<p>Executive chairman <strong>Michael Saylor<\/strong> has pledged continued Bitcoin accumulation, but new acquisitions add more preferred dividend obligations each quarter.<\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s own forecast suggests these costs will reach several billion dollars over time.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dependence On Equity Sales For Funding<\/h3>\n<p>Strategy generates limited income from &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/11\/48694788\/michael-saylors-bitcoin-plan-has-a-cost-strategy-must-pay-689m-just-to-hodl?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Michael\" saylor bitcoin plan has a cost strategy must pay just to hodl>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strategy Inc. (NASDAQ:MSTR) faces rising costs to maintain its massive Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) treasury, with annual obligations now topping $689 million, according to a new report. Company&#8217;s Bitcoin Treasury Comes With Heavy Burden Strategy Inc., formerly MicroStrategy, holds about $66 billion in bitcoin and plans to never sell its holdings. That goal, however, comes with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-57119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}