A farmer’s son posted online that his father received 0.96% more Strategy STRC shares in a single day, and X posts like it, even the skeptical ones, have ignited a debate that cuts to the core of what bitcoin is meant to be.
The post spread quickly across crypto social media this weekend. The son described calling his father after the man noticed the new shares in his brokerage account. His father’s reaction was simple and direct.
“I’ve never been paid this kind of money just for someone else to hold my money,” the father said. “I mean, someone is always holding it, the bank, the man in the moon, the cow next door, whatever. But nothing like 11 or 12%!”
The father, who comes from a farming background, received his returns through Strategy’s STRC preferred stock, a security currently listed by the company at 11.5% annualized as of May 2026. Strategy sells STRC shares at a $100 stated amount and pays cumulative cash dividends monthly, when and if declared by the board.
The son explained the product to his father using an agricultural metaphor: farmland that generates crops each season regardless of land prices, with reinvested proceeds buying more acres and expanding future output. It was a frame built around income compounding, not Bitcoin theory.
