“We will probably sell
some Bitcoin to pay a dividend just to inoculate the market and send the message that we did it.”Coin Bureau, relaying another source: BTC — an event
Said on May 12, 2026, at 1:47 in the video.
The window it was checked over
BTC closing prices, adjusted for splits. The shaded span is the one-year window: it starts at the first close after the video went public and ends at the last close on or before one year after the day the video was published.
Result at every window
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What was said around it
day. The first document is the Q1 2026 press release. That's the marketing. It frames the quarter around continued accumulation, the strength of the preferred shared stack, and the long-term Bitcoin standard thesis Sailor has been preaching since August of 2020. The second document is the earnings call transcript, and that's the legal record. And inside that transcript, Sailor said something that contradicts the entire foundation of the press release. The exact words on a recorded call in front of analysts were these. We will probably sell some Bitcoin to pay a dividend just to inoculate the market and send the message that we did it. Yes, read that again. Inoculate the market. This is the same Michael Sailor who in 2020 publicly compared selling Bitcoin to selling your house, then your dog, then your kids. There is no second best. the same executive that in 2023 told an interviewer that his exit strategy was in his words, "How do you see what is the exit strategy then for for Bitcoin for you?" Um, with your There is no exit strategy. There is no exit strategy. The same CEO who as recently as October of last year wrote in a shareholder letter that
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