Michael Saylor Teases Another Bitcoin Buy And I’m Already Sick Of The Weekly Bit

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Look, I don’t know what’s more exhausting at this point: Michael Saylor’s weekly “I’m gonna buy a ton of Bitcoin” bit, or the fact that every single trader on the planet acts like this is some earth-shattering, never-before-seen surprise every single time. Dude posted a “Big Dot Energy” tweet on Sunday, like that’s some top secret code no one’s ever decoded before, while half the market is already refreshing their 8-K filing tabs for Monday like they’re waiting for the season finale of a terrible sitcom they can’t stop watching. And surprise, surprise, the tracker says they bought another ~15,000 BTC this week, because of course they did. It’s like clockwork, except the only thing predictable here is Saylor’s inability to resist posting about Bitcoin for 10 seconds straight without making a big dramatic production out of it.

This little tracker Strc.live is out here doing the math we all could do if we didn’t have to waste our time listening to Saylor’s weekly “we’re gonna change the world” press conferences, and they say MicroStrategy dumped roughly 15,466 Bitcoin into their purchases over four days of trading this week. Why? Because their STRC preferred shares hit an all-time volume high of 15.1 million on Thursday. Oh, you don’t say? You mean when a company’s weird little niche stock hits a record high, they use that raised money to buy more of the thing their CEO is borderline obsessed with? Groundbreaking. I could’ve told you that, and I still can’t figure out why half the crypto community acts like they just discovered fire every time this happens.

MicroStrategy’s Weird Little STRC Stock Thing Is Apparently The Key To All This Bitcoin Drama

Let’s be real, Saylor’s May 17 “Big Dot Energy” post wasn’t exactly a plot twist. Dude does this every single week. It’s like your neighbor who brags every Sunday that he’s gonna mow his lawn on Monday, and then acts like he’s revolutionized yard work when he actually shows up with a lawnmower and does it. No one is shocked, no one is impressed, we’re all just waiting to see how many zeros are on the purchase check this time, and then we’ll all forget about it by next Sunday when he does it again.

₿ig Dot Energy.

– Michael Saylor (@saylor) May 17, 2026

Oh, and for the record, the firm just finished a $1.5 billion repurchase of their 2029 convertible notes that settles around May 19, and somehow that hasn’t put a damper on their never-ending “let’s raise money to buy Bitcoin” party. It’s like if you got a work bonus and instead of paying your rent, you went out and bought 500 more limited edition Funko Pops. Sure, your landlord might be mad, but you’re having a great time posting about your collection on Twitter, so who cares about trivial things like “making rent” or “financial responsibility”?

For what it’s worth, they’re sitting on 818,869 Bitcoin right now, with an average cost of roughly $75,543 per coin. Which, let’s be honest, is the only actually impressive number here, because that’s a whole lot of money to spend on something that goes up and down more than my mood when I get roped into going to a dinner party with my wife’s work friends I can’t stand.

Thursday’s STRC trading session hit an all-time volume record of 15.1 million shares, beating the old record from mid-April. And the crypto community, being the absolute geniuses they are, took one look at that and decided that obviously, definitively, means they’re raising more money to buy Bitcoin. No other possible explanation, right? It’s not like people trade stocks for literally any other reason. Nope, this is definitely MicroStrategy’s secret “let’s buy more Bitcoin” signal, and not just a bunch of people gambling on a random stock because they have nothing better to do on a Thursday afternoon.

$STRC weekly guess time 🎯

Huge week-~15,466 BTC estimated across 4 active days. Thursday set a new all-time volume record (15.1M shares), topping Apr 14’s 14.7M.

What will Monday’s 8-K confirm?

Drop your guess below 👇

– STRC.live (@STRC_live) May 15, 2026

Retail Vote Over Some Boring Dividend Thing Is Apparently The Next Big Crypto Drama

Now here’s the part that’s almost as thrilling as waiting for Saylor’s next Bitcoin tweet: roughly 80% of these STRC shares are held by regular retail investors, the kind of people who check their Robinhood account 17 times a day while they’re on the toilet. And MicroStrategy is asking all these people to vote to move their 11.5% annual dividend from monthly payouts to every two weeks. Oh, wow, such a life-altering change. You get your money 14 days earlier instead of 30. I’m shaking. I’m sure everyone is lining up to vote on this, right after they finish arguing with 12-year-olds on Twitter about whether Bitcoin is gonna hit $1 million or $0 by the end of the year.

The company says this keeps the headline dividend rate exactly the same, just hands out cash more often, and that it’ll make people want to buy more of their weird variable-rate preferred stock, which will keep the at-the-market issuance pipeline open that they’ve been using to fund almost all of their Bitcoin buying this year. Which, let’s be real, is the only reason anyone at MicroStrategy cares about this vote. If it means they can keep buying more Bitcoin to post cryptic tweets about every week, they’ll do literally anything to get it passed. They’ll send everyone a free Bitcoin keychain, they’ll make Saylor do a TikTok dance, whatever it takes.

Monday’s 8-K filing will finally give everyone a real, concrete number to compare to that 15,466 BTC estimate everyone’s been throwing around this week. If the number is big, everyone’s gonna lose their minds, act like Saylor is some kind of once-in-a-generation financial genius, and forget that he does this exact same bit every single week without fail. If the number is smaller than expected, everyone’s gonna act like the entire crypto market is collapsing, and Saylor will probably post some other dumb meme to distract everyone for a few days until the next tease.

Either way, we all know by next Sunday he’ll be posting some other vague, cryptic tweet teasing the next Bitcoin purchase, and we’ll all be right back here, refreshing our 8-K tabs, acting like this is the first time we’ve ever heard of a company buying cryptocurrency. Oh, and don’t forget to pay attention to that STRC dividend vote, because if it passes, we get to deal with this whole Bitcoin buying routine for even longer. Joy unbounded.

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2026-05-17 18:42