Sale of 996 BTC on October 9 to fund debt repayment
Company: Marathon Digital
The claim, verbatim
On October 9, 2026, MARA sold 996 BTC, valued at about $81 million, 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: “MARA sold 996 BTC for $81 million to fund debt repayment”
How we checked this
Checked on October 15, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The article is dated October 10, 2026 and reports the October 9 sale of 996 BTC for about $81 million. It says the sale was to fund debt repayment.
Confirmed in the source:
- MARA sold 996 BTC on October 9, 2026
- The 996 BTC were valued at about $81 million
- 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: “MARA sold 996 BTC for $81 million to fund debt repayment”