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For four years, Michael Saylor's message was simple: never sell your Bitcoin. He repeated it on Bloomberg, on Squawk Box, on stage in Nashville. He published Rule 20: "You do not sell your $BTC." He told one audience to sell their kidneys before parting with a single sat. As recently as February, he told CNBC he expected Strategy "to be buying every quarter forever."

On Tuesday's Q1 2026 earnings call, that doctrine cracked.

"We will probably sell some Bitcoin to fund a dividend, just to inoculate the market, just to send the message that we did it,” Saylor said during the call.

If you read the headlines you would think Saylor is capitulating. Listen to the full call and it’s clear Saylor is saying something different.

Here’s what Saylor actually means.

Saylor had a pretty clear message to short sellers during Tuesday’s Q1 Earnings Call: "If you are a short seller and your thesis is the company's got to sell equity in order to fund the dividends, I would like nothing better than to rip your wings off."

Saylor is taking a deliberate shot at a specific bear thesis that Strategy will be forced into dilutive equity issuance to service its preferred stack. Saylor wants that thesis dead. 

The thing is, the bears aren’t crazy. Strategy does, in fact, have a massive annual payou obligation.

TeraWulf (NASDAQ: WULF) reported first-quarter 2026 revenue of $34 million, roughly flat compared with $34.4 million a year earlier. The quarter included $21 million of AI/HPC lease revenue, a line item that did not exist in the prior-year period, while net loss widened to $427.6 million from $61.4 million - link

NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) and IREN (NASDAQ: IREN) announced a partnership covering deployment of up to 5 gigawatts of AI infrastructure. The deal is tied to IREN’s AI cloud buildout and its existing data center footprint. Shares of IREN jumped in after-market hours. - link

Shares of Bitcoin miner turned AI factory Core Scientific (NASDAQ: CORZ) fell 9% following the company’s earnings call. Investors were likely expecting a new tenant signing at one of CORZ many sites, which the Core Scientific team did not discuss during the earnings call. Core Scientific announced the extension of is Oklahoma site with an additional 440 MW under development. - link

Hut 8 (NASDAQ: HUT) said Wednesday that it signed a 15-year lease for 352 MW of IT capacity at its Beacon Point AI data center campus in Nueces County, Texas, with a base-term contract value of $9.8 billion. First-quarter revenue rose 226% year over year to $71 million. - link

MARA (NASDAQ: MARA) launched a consent solicitation on Thursday for Long Ridge Energy LLC’s 8.750% Senior Secured Notes due 2032. The solicitation covers $600 million in outstanding notes and is tied to MARA’s pending acquisition of Long Ridge Energy & Power LLC, a deal valued at roughly $1.5 billion. - link

Strategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) sold 492,210 shares of Class A common stock for $82 million in net proceeds during the week of April 27 to May 3, according to a Form 8-K filed on May 4. The company made no bitcoin purchases during the same period, leaving its holdings unchanged at 818,334 BTC. - link

A handful of leaders in the bitcoin mining space have joined a working group to accelerate the Stratum V2, the latest iteration of the open source stratum protocol from Braiins that underpins bitcoin mining pool infrastructure. - link