Shareholders of Satsuma Technology voted on July 21, 2026 to sell the company's remaining 668 BTC, shut down operations, and return whatever capital survives the wind-down process. At the low end of estimates, that means £26.8M back to investors who put in £163.6M just eleven months earlier: roughly 18p on the pound.

The company was not always called Satsuma. It started as TAO Alpha, a U.K.-listed AI firm, then rebranded and brought in Mark Moss, a well-known Bitcoin commentator, as Chief Bitcoin Strategist. In August 2025, it raised £163.6 million ($218M) through convertible notes, with ParaFi Capital leading the round. Investors contributed 1,097 BTC in total. The stock peaked at nearly £14 per share in June 2025, riding the same wave of enthusiasm that pushed Bitcoin to an all-time high of $126,000 in October of that year.

Then the market turned. The structure Satsuma had built, fixed-obligation convertible debt funding a volatile asset, left almost no room to manoeuvre once Bitcoin equities began their prolonged slide. By December 2025, noteholders who declined to convert their debt into equity by the year-end deadline were owed cash, and Satsuma had to raise it fast. It sold 579 BTC for £40M. That single transaction cut the treasury nearly in half and locked the company into a much weaker position heading into 2026. BTC is currently trading around $65,800, down roughly 0.4% in the past 24 hours after briefly touching $66,000.

Executives Out, Shares Near Zero, Pantera Calls Time

The CFO left in February 2026. The CEO followed in March. By April, shares had lost more than 99% of their June 2025 peak, trading at fractions of a penny. Pantera Capital, holding approximately 6.7% of issued shares, began publicly pushing for full liquidation. The shareholder vote on July 21 confirmed it.

The maximum return scenario puts £30M back in shareholders' hands. The minimum is £26.8M. Either way, the gap between £163.6M raised and what comes back illustrates what happens when creditors sit ahead of equity holders in the exit queue. The DAT model, popularised by Michael Saylor and adopted by a wave of small-cap firms through 2025, depends on the underlying asset holding value long enough for equity to stay relevant. Satsuma's timeline did not allow for that.

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