🔥 Strategy Leaves Bitcoin Untouched, Raises $334M Selling MSTR Stock.

Image: Swan Bitcoin/YouTube/DecryptCreate an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.In brief Strategy made no Bitcoin purchases or sales in the week to August 16, leaving holdings at 840,447 BTC. It raised $333.7 million selling MSTR shares, splitting the proceeds between preferred dividends, a STRC buyback and its dollar reserve. The firm's USD reserve reached $4.8 billion, with $653 million left under the preferred repurchase program. Strategy made no Bitcoin purchases or sales last week, according to an 8-K filed Monday, ending a run of weekly disposals that had funded its dividends and buybacks since June. Its stack stands at 840,447 BTC, unchanged, at an average purchase price of $75,385.

The Bitcoin treasury company instead raised $333.7 million net by selling 3,458,866 MSTR shares, at an average of about $96.48, down from $99.17 the week before. The filing splits the proceeds three ways: $52.4 million to pay dividends on its STRC preferred stock, $132.2 million to buy that stock back, and $149.1 million into its dollar reserve. Strategy increased its USD Reserve by $150M and repurchased $132M of $STRC . This increased USD Duration by 41 days to 2.8 yrs and tightened STRC's BTC Credit by 4 bps to 114 bps. As of 8/16/26, we hold 840,447 in our BTC Reserve and $4.8B in our USD Reserve.

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