Samson Mow defends Strategy selling portions of its Bitcoin treasury

The Bitcoin advocate spoke up after Michael Saylor signaled that the company might sell some BTC, a major departure from the Strategy founder's previous rhetoric.

Michael Saylor's comment this week that Strategy might sell portions of its Bitcoin holdings, is a decision that gives the BTC treasury company Strategy, optionality, according to BTC advocate Samson Mow.

“Never selling limits optionality. Public markets are war. In war, you need all available tools at your disposal,” Mow said after company co-founder Saylor's comment during Strategy’s first-quarter earnings call on Tuesday. That the company might sell some BTC in the future, Mow added:

Strategy is the largest publicly traded Bitcoin treasury company, according to BitcoinTreasuries, and holds 818,334 BTC at the time of this writing, and any potential sales could weigh on spot BTC market prices, according to some crypto market analysts.

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