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Riot Platforms and MARA Drop 6%, CleanSpark Sinks 5% as Strategy Sells Bitcoin, Shares
['David Moadel', 'Mon', 'August', 'At Pm Gmt', 'Min Read']
Yahoo Finance
Quick ReadRIOT and MARA each fell 6% after Strategy's 8-K revealed Saylor sold 1,690 Bitcoin below the firm's $75,385 average cost basis.
Strategy (MSTR) sold Bitcoin at a realized loss, with the board authorizing up to $1.25 billion in total sales to build a USD reserve.
The prediction markets assign a 39% chance that Strategy announces more Bitcoin sales before August 17, keeping sentiment fragile across the mining sector.
Strategy also sold approximately 6.59 million common shares for $653.1 million, routing $650 million into its cash reserve.
The board has authorized up to $1.25 billion of Bitcoin sales to fund the USD reserve.