Saylor hints at Bitcoin purchases with $23.5 billion stock authorization

Michael Saylor's latest chart hints Strategy may resume buying Bitcoin after a two-week pause, backed by $3.2 billion in cash and $23.5 billion in stock authorization.

Strategy holds 843,775 Bitcoin worth $54.9 billion while its $3.2 billion cash reserve and $23.5 billion stock authorization fuel speculation about resumed purchases.

"Bitcoin capital markets required a new financial language," Saylor said on X, sharing a chart that showed Strategy's accumulation history alongside the company's newly expanded BTC metrics dashboard.

The company sold 2.73 million MSTR shares for $263.5 million in the week through July 19, its second consecutive week of stock sales without corresponding Bitcoin purchases, according to an SEC filing. That brought its cash reserve to $3.225 billion while its Bitcoin holdings stayed flat at 843,775 BTC for a second week. Strategy still has about $23.53 billion available under its at-the-market stock offering program, according to Crypto News.

The $3.2 billion cash reserve covers roughly 22 months of preferred dividend and debt obligations, exceeding the board's 12-month minimum, according to Bitget. A resumption of Bitcoin buying at scale would represent one of the largest single institutional accumulation events in the asset's history, given the remaining stock authorization.

The company's new BTC metrics dashboard, unveiled July 24, shows its Bitcoin reserve valued at $54.88 billion at a price of $65,035 per coin, according to the company's website. The dashboard also publishes a BTC Floor ARR of negative 11.34 percent — the modeled annual return threshold below which Strategy says it "may need to consider restructuring its obligations" across its $18.993 billion in net debt and preferred claims.

The BTC Hurdle ARR of 10.79 percent represents the company's effective cost of credit, above which MSTR captures a positive spread. Between those two thresholds, the model maintains at least 1.0x coverage through the weighted 5.79-year credit duration, even while Bitcoin's return remains below Strategy's cost of capital.

The chart Saylor shared did not specify a timeline or price target for resumed purchases. The company has not bought Bitcoin since the week ending July 12, when it added 11,931 BTC for $784.3 million, according to prior SEC filings.

Meanwhile, Strategy joined nine other firms including BlackRock, Fidelity Digital Assets, and Coinbase in forming the Bitcoin Security Consortium, pledging a combined $15 million over three years to support open-source developers working on Bitcoin's security infrastructure, with a focus on post-quantum cryptography preparedness.

This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice.