Eric Trump, co-founder and chief strategy officer of American Bitcoin, has revealed the terms of his Bitcoin sale. And the standards he has set are so extreme that he has vowed not to sell under any predictable market scenario.
In an interview with Bonnie Blockchain Channel published on May 12, President Trump was directly asked about the circumstances in which Bitcoin in the United States could be forced to liquidate its holdings. His answer was clear.
A sale would require something “beyond catastrophic,” according to the interview. That is, a framework that places the selling threshold far outside normal market volatility, regulatory pressures, and even extended bear markets, and serves more as a philosophical commitment to perpetual accumulation than as a risk management policy.
A race between the two — and why Bitcoin sales are losing both
The broader context behind President Trump’s “never sell” stance is the dual competitive framework he laid out in the same interview. According to Trump, the Bitcoin treasure trove space is defined by two simultaneous competitions: one for the largest total Bitcoin holdings, and one for the lowest possible acquisition cost. Bitcoin in America is competing on both, he argued, and selling Bitcoin would quickly lose ground in the first competition and undermine the entire logic of the second competition.
According to Trump’s interview, the company’s north star metric is an increase in “Sats per share,” a measure of how many Bitcoins each outstanding share of ABTC represents. Every time a Bitcoin is sold, that number fades. Every time a Bitcoin is mined and held, it gets worse. The accumulation model only works if there are coins left, making the “catastrophic” sell threshold a structural requirement of the strategy itself rather than a fancy phrase.
Sailor’s Mention – And Divergence
According to the interview, President Trump acknowledged Michael Saylor’s role in building the Bitcoin financial category, calling him a visionary and praising Strategy’s approach. But he made a clear distinction. Mr. Saylor recently suggested that Strategy may sell some of its Bitcoin to fund dividend payments, suggesting a flexibility in the accumulation model that Mr. Trump is unlikely to emulate.
He revealed that Bitcoin in the US is subject to a stricter retention framework. According to interviews, Strategy has been accumulating primarily through the capital markets, demonstrating some exit flexibility, while ABTC has been accumulating through mining (claimed to be approximately 53% below spot price) and maintained without exception.
This difference is important to how investors read both companies. The never-sell attitude of a mining integrated treasury company is more operationally reliable than the same attitude of a pure accumulator. This is because the marginal cost of each new coin is structurally low, reducing balance sheet pressure on monetization accordingly.
President Trump’s “beyond catastrophic” framework is a critical benchmark for the growing group of Bitcoin finance companies in the emerging sector. This is the most visible long-term accumulation commitment by a public company executive on record this period. Whether the market rewards its conviction or punishes its rigidity will depend on where Bitcoin trades in the coming years.
As you can see on the daily chart, the price of BTC is trending upward. Source: BTCUSD on Tradingview
As of this writing, Bitcoin is trading at around $82,000, and American Bitcoin’s treasury holds over 7,000 BTC as the company’s co-founder continues his now publicly stated unrestricted accumulation strategy.
Grok cover image, BTCUSD chart on Tradingview
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