{"id":90278,"date":"2026-05-06T15:46:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T15:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=90278"},"modified":"2026-05-06T15:46:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T15:46:36","slug":"the-michael-saylor-trade-sell-a-kidney-keep-bitcoin-with-one-caveat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=90278","title":{"rendered":"The Michael Saylor Trade: Sell A Kidney, Keep Bitcoin \u2014 With One Caveat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Michael Saylor<\/strong> once <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/saylor\/status\/1895325810942411234\">told<\/a> <strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BTC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BTC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) holders to &#8220;sell a kidney if you must, but keep the Bitcoin.&#8221; The line became instant crypto folklore \u2014 pure Bitcoin maximalism wrapped in classic Saylor theatrics. But <strong>Strategy Inc<\/strong>\u2018s <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"MSTR\" data-exchange=\"NASDAQ\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/MSTR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(NASDAQ:<\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/MSTR\">MSTR<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/earnings\/26\/05\/52302859\/michael-saylors-strategy-reports-q1-results-details\">first quarter earnings<\/a> call added an important caveat to that narrative.<\/p>\n<p>Not from Saylor himself, who remained aggressively bullish on Bitcoin, but from Strategy CIO <strong>Phong Le<\/strong>, who openly discussed scenarios where selling Bitcoin could make financial sense for the company.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bitcoin Meets Corporate Finance<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;We also have Bitcoin that we have the opportunity, and the option of selling,&#8221; Le said during the call.<\/p>\n<p>He went further later on, saying Strategy could consider &#8220;selling Bitcoin either to buy U.S. dollars or &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/05\/52329817\/michael-saylor-trade-sell-kidney-keep-bitcoin-with-one-caveat?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"The\" michael saylor trade: sell a kidney keep bitcoin with one caveat>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Saylor once told Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) holders to &#8220;sell a kidney if you must, but keep the Bitcoin.&#8221; The line became instant crypto folklore \u2014 pure Bitcoin maximalism wrapped in classic Saylor theatrics. But Strategy Inc\u2018s (NASDAQ:MSTR) first quarter earnings call added an important caveat to that narrative. Not from Saylor himself, who remained [&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-90278","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\/90278","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=90278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}