MARA sold ~23,093 BTC for ~$1.63B in H1 2026
Company: Marathon Digital
The claim, verbatim
In the first half of 2026, MARA sold around 23,093 BTC for about $1.63 billion, averaging approximately $70,631 per coin.
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: “In the first half of 2026, MARA sold around 23,093 BTC for about $1.63 billion, averaging approximately $70,631 per coin.”
How we checked this
Checked on October 15, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The article states these first-half 2026 sale figures verbatim.
Confirmed in the source:
- MARA sold around 23,093 BTC in the first half of 2026
- The sales totaled about $1.63 billion
- The average price was approximately $70,631 per coin
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: “In the first half of 2026, MARA sold around 23,093 BTC for about $1.63 billion, averaging approximately $70,631 per coin.”