Morning Minute: Saylor is Back to Buying

Tyler Warner

Tue, June 9, 2026 astatine 6:48 AM CDT 6 min read

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Today’s apical news:

• Crypto majors mostly level contempt Iran War progress; BTC astatine $62.7k

• Saylor buys $100M successful BTC past week, MSTR jumps 6% and STRC +3.6%

• Tom Lee buys $214M successful ETH, biggest acquisition of 2026; ETH ETFs flip green

• Citrini calls Hyperliquid a buy, points to fees and buybacks

• Humanity Protocol has worker laptop compromised, H token falls 76%

💰 Saylor Is Back to Buying

Strategy bought 1,550 Bitcoin for $101 cardinal past week astatine a ~$65.3k average, a instrumentality to concern arsenic accustomed aft a 32 BTC merchantability triggered the firm’s worst play show since November 2022.

The 1,550-coin acquisition was funded done Strategy’s at-the-money share-sale program. Strategy raised $181 cardinal from Class A communal banal income nether the programme betwixt June 1 and June 7. It deployed $101 cardinal into Bitcoin and utilized the remainder (~$80M) to rebuild its currency reserves, which person risen to $1B.

Strategy Buys Bitcoin, Pads Cash Reserves Following Biggest Weekly Stock Drop Since 2022

Last month, the institution slashed those currency reserves by 61% to repurchase indebtedness astatine a discount, leaving it with less resources to conscionable dividend obligations connected its flagship preferred stock. JPMorgan commented connected Monday: “In our opinion, a rebuilding of the company’s dollar reserves mightiness beryllium needed to reconstruct assurance and trim capitalist concerns that the institution would merchantability much Bitcoin to screen dividend payments.”

The marketplace liked the news, with MSTR rebounding 6% to $127.20 contempt the further shares sold. STRC jumped 3.69% to $96.80. BTC held astatine $63,500.

The jump may person been tied to STRC and MSTR shareholders voting to determination the STRC dividends to semi-monthly, present acceptable to wage retired connected the 15th and extremity of month. That alteration was meant to lick the contented of STRC trading nether par for astir of the period arsenic traders bought it up successful the 5-10 days starring up to the dividend date—now determination are 2 per month.

📈 Citrini Calls Hyperliquid a Buy

Citrini Research, the steadfast that helped spark February’s AI-driven marketplace scare, has named crypto speech Hyperliquid and its HYPE token arsenic a caller “compelling” investment.

Their anterior work “2028 Global Intelligence Crisis” went viral and triggered a little Wall Street selloff successful February, and present they’re focused successful the crypto sphere.