MARA sold 996 BTC for ~$81M to fund debt repayment
Company: Marathon Digital
The claim, verbatim
On October 9, MARA sold 996 BTC, valued at about $81 million, to fund debt repayment; the sale was 2.8% of its total holdings.
Source (primary)
Whales Bought 15,000 Bitcoin in Three Days While MARA Sold $81 Million. Who Has It Right? - AOL.com (-, 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 states MARA sold 996 BTC worth about $81 million on October 9, describes the sale as funding debt repayment, and says it was 2.8% of total holdings.
Confirmed in the source:
- MARA sold 996 BTC on October 9
- The 996 BTC sale was valued at about $81 million
- The sale was to fund debt repayment
- The sale represented 2.8% of MARA's total holdings
What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://www.aol.com/articles/whales-bought-15-000-bitcoin-213038000.html) in full (10,310 characters, retrieved October 13, 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? - AOL.com
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”