MARA sold 996 BTC on Oct 9
Company: Marathon Digital
The claim, verbatim
On October 9, 2026, 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? - AOL.ca (-, 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 17, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The article reports the October 9 sale of 996 BTC worth about $81 million as 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 (article dated October 10, 2026)
- The sale was valued at about $81 million
- The sale represented 2.8% of MARA's total holdings
- The sale was to fund debt repayment
What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://www.aol.ca/articles/whales-bought-15-000-bitcoin-213038000.html) in full (9,847 characters, retrieved October 16, 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.ca
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”