MARA Sells Nearly All Mined BTC, Pledges 18,750 BTC for AI
Miners' BTC treasuries can look larger than their usable liquidity when coins are pledged, restricted or tied to treasury trades.
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Miners' BTC treasuries can look larger than their usable liquidity when coins are pledged, restricted or tied to treasury trades.
The gap is commercial traction: CleanSpark has a signed $6.6B AI lease, while MARA has yet to land its first commercial AI contract.
The figures highlight the miners' strategic tension: current revenue is falling while MARA and CleanSpark expand into AI infrastructure.
The up to $600M in milestone payments via Starwood shows MARA willing to fund expansion in stock rather than cash, a signal of how thinly priced HPC power has become for public miners.
MARA appears to have bought 1,000 BTC (~$66.7M) via FalconX, a sharp reversal from Q1 2026, when the miner sold 20,880…
OGE disclosures also show large trades in Microsoft, Meta, Nvidia, Oracle and Apple — but the crypto-equity sleeve (MARA, COIN, MSTR, HOOD) is what moves markets today.
The sale tests whether MARA is monetising BTC to fund an AI-data-center build-out or simply trimming treasury exposure — Fred Thiel's Bloomberg appearance did little to settle the read.
The treasury drawdown sent MARA from second to fourth among public bitcoin holders — a structural reordering, not a quarter-end liquidity shuffle, with 90% of non-hosted power earmarked for AI…
The revenue print is the headline, but the $1.5B in bitcoin sold to retire debt and the halt to large-scale ASIC buys show where management is placing its bets this cycle.
The $2.34-a-share loss is a function of a 25% BTC drawdown; the $1.5B Long Ridge deal, the $1B note buyback, and the Starwood gigawatt pipeline are what investors are actually underwriting.