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Bitcoin Slides to Three-Week Low as Strategy Signals $5 Billion Sale Plan

Bitcoin dropped 3.5% in the 24 hours through July 31, touching its lowest level in three weeks around $62,911 as the market digested a new disclosure from its l…

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Bitcoin Slides to Three-Week Low as Strategy Signals $5 Billion Sale Plan
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  • Bitcoin dropped 3.5% in the 24 hours through July 31, touching its lowest level in three weeks around $62,911 as the market digested a new disclosure…
  • The move marks a sharp departure from the "never sell" posture that underpinned Strategy's valuation premium for years. In early July, the company…
  • Proceeds from the July sale were earmarked for quarterly dividends on Strategy's STRC perpetual preferred shares and to replenish a dollar reserve…

The tension now centers on whether the $5 billion sale authorization becomes a steady drip or a flood. Each tranche sold below the $75,476 average cost realizes a loss and reduces the bitcoin-per-share metric that has driven MSTR's premium. Yet failing to service preferred dividends would damage the credit profile of the Digital Credit securities that now anchor the capital structure. With bitcoin range-bound and volatility coiled, the market's next read on Strategy's pace of sales may determine whether the current compression resolves upward or breaks the three-week low.

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