Saylor pushes “1.4% forever” Bitcoin play to Middle East wealth funds

Michael Saylor pitches a 1.4% credit‑funded balance‑sheet formula to Middle East capital, aiming to turn corporates into perpetual Bitcoin accumulators in a fragile market.

Michael Saylor has found a way to turn balance‑sheet engineering into a perpetual Bitcoin (BTC) accumulator’s charter — and he is not whispering it, he is broadcasting it to the Middle East.

Saylor’s “1.4% forever” math

Speaking live on Middle Eastern television, Strategy’s executive chairman Michael Saylor distilled his pitch into a single, aggressive sentence: “If we sell credit instruments equal to 1.4% of our capital assets, we can pay the dividends funded in Bitcoin and we can increase the amount of BTC we have forever.”

The logic is brutally simple: monetize a thin slice of the asset base via credit, recycle that into yield‑bearing Bitcoin exposure, and feed shareholders both cash flow and upside without, in his view, diluting the core capital stack. KuCoin’s summary of the framework put it starkly: selling 1.4% of capital assets as credit “could allow the company to boost Bitcoin holdings permanently” while still supporting stock dividends.

This approach extends a strategy he outlined at the Bitcoin MENA conference, where he told regional sovereign funds in the Middle East that “Bitcoin is digital capital, or digital gold, and digital credit builds on it by stripping out volatility to generate yield.”

Macro risk, meet corporate leverage

Saylor’s formula lands in a market where Bitcoin itself has turned into the cleanest proxy for global risk appetite. At press time, Bitcoin (BTC) trades around $70,345, with a 24‑hour range between roughly $68,428 and $71,852 on about $59.3B in volume. Ethereum (ETH) changes hands near $2,012, with 24‑hour trading volume close to $28.7B and intraday prints between about $1,999 and $2,140. Solana (SOL) sits around $86, with roughly $3.9B traded over the last day as it grinds through a 2025–26 drawdown. XRP (XRP) hovers near $1.44, down about 1% over the last 24 hours as on‑chain data flags a “stop‑loss phase” after months of distribution.crypto+8

This parabolic move comes as digital assets continue to trade as the purest expression of macro risk appetite. Bitcoin (BTC) is hovering around $70,345, with a 24‑hour high near $71,852 and a low near $68,428, on roughly $59.3B in dollar volumes. Ethereum (ETH) changes hands close to $2,012, with about $28.7B in 24‑hour turnover and spot quotes clustered in the $2,000–$2,100 band on major exchanges earlier this week. Solana trades around $86, up modestly over the last 24 hours, with nearly $3.9B in volume.crypto+5

Middle Eastern capital in the crosshairs

Saylor has been explicit about his target audience. In Abu Dhabi, he claimed to have met “every Middle East sovereign wealth fund” to pitch Bitcoin‑backed credit as a superior fixed‑income replacement, promising “two to four times” traditional yields while using corporate structures like Strategy as leverage amplifiers.

The sales pitch collides with a more fragile tape. Bitcoin has slipped below $70,000 amid what one analyst called an “unpumpable” market, with selling pressure overwhelming inflows after a 45% drawdown from the 2025 peak. Whether Saylor’s 1.4% rule becomes a template or a cautionary tale will be decided not in televised sound bites, but in the next macro stress test.