MARA sold 996 BTC on Oct 9
Company: Marathon Digital
The claim, verbatim
On October 9, MARA sold 996 BTC valued at about $81 million, about 2.8% of its holdings, to fund debt repayment.
Source (primary)
Whales Bought 15,000 Bitcoin in Three Days While MARA Sold $81 Million. Who Has It Right? - Yahoo Finance (-, news_article)
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Quote: “on October 9, MARA Holdings ( NASDAQ:MARA ), one of the largest publicly traded Bitcoin mining companies, sold 996 BTC, valued at about $81 million”
How we checked this
Checked on October 15, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The article reports the October 9 sale of 996 BTC worth about $81 million and says it was 2.8% of MARA's holdings. Its summary says the sale was made to fund debt repayment.
Confirmed in the source:
- MARA sold 996 BTC on October 9
- The 996 BTC were valued at about $81 million
- The sale represented 2.8% of MARA's total holdings
- The sale was made to fund debt repayment
What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/crypto/articles/whales-bought-15-000-bitcoin-213038716.html) in full (14,211 characters, retrieved October 11, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms Whales Bought 15,000 Bitcoin in Three Days While MARA Sold $81 Million. Who Has It Right? - Yahoo Finance
Quote: “on October 9, MARA Holdings ( NASDAQ:MARA ), one of the largest publicly traded Bitcoin mining companies, sold 996 BTC, valued at about $81 million”
confirms Whales Bought 15,000 Bitcoin in Three Days While MARA Sold $81 Million. Who Has It Right? - 24/7 Wall St.
Quote: “on October 9, MARA Holdings ( NASDAQ:MARA | MARA Price Prediction ), one of the largest publicly traded Bitcoin mining companies, sold 996 BTC, valued at about $81 million”