{"id":74261,"date":"2026-02-28T21:47:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T21:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=74261"},"modified":"2026-02-28T21:47:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T21:47:14","slug":"bitcoin-miner-mara-pivots-to-ai-after-1-7-billion-loss-as-stock-surges-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=74261","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Miner MARA Pivots To AI After $1.7 Billion Loss As Stock Surges 10%"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>MARA Holdings<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"MARA\" data-exchange=\"NASDAQ\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/MARA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(NASDAQ:<\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/MARA\">MARA<\/a>) surged over 10% after announcing a joint venture with <strong>Starwood Digital Ventures<\/strong> to pivot mining sites toward AI infrastructure, despite reporting a $1.7 billion Q4 loss driven by <strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BTC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BTC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) writedowns.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">MARA Reports $1.7 Billion Q4 Loss<\/h3>\n<p>The company reported a Q4 net loss of $1.7 billion compared to net income of $528.3 million a year earlier.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A $1.5 billion decline in the fair value of Bitcoin holdings wiped out operating gains as BTC dropped from $114,068 at the end of Q3 to $87,498 by December 31.<\/p>\n<p>Revenue fell 6% to $202.3 million from $214.4 million in Q4 2024, driven by a 14% drop in the average price of Bitcoin mined during the quarter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Full-year revenue grew 38% to $907.1 million, but the topline growth was overshadowed by the massive quarterly writedown.<\/p>\n<p>MARA held 53,822 BTC valued at roughly $4.7 billion &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/02\/50938208\/bitcoin-miner-mara-pivots-to-ai-after-1-7-billion-loss-as-stock-surges-10?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Bitcoin\" miner mara pivots to ai after billion loss as stock surges>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARA Holdings (NASDAQ:MARA) surged over 10% after announcing a joint venture with Starwood Digital Ventures to pivot mining sites toward AI infrastructure, despite reporting a $1.7 billion Q4 loss driven by Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) writedowns. MARA Reports $1.7 Billion Q4 Loss The company reported a Q4 net loss of $1.7 billion compared to net income [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-74261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}