MARA sold 20,880 BTC for ~$1.5B in Q1 2026
Company: Marathon Digital
The claim, verbatim
MARA sold 20,880 BTC for about $1.5 billion in the first quarter of 2026.
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: “selling 20,880 coins for about $1.5 billion in the first quarter”
How we checked this
Checked on October 15, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The article breaks down the first-half 2026 total, including 20,880 coins sold for about $1.5 billion in the first quarter.
Confirmed in the source:
- MARA sold 20,880 BTC in the first quarter of 2026
- The Q1 sales totaled about $1.5 billion
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: “selling 20,880 coins for about $1.5 billion in the first quarter”