{"id":78357,"date":"2026-03-30T20:16:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T20:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=78357"},"modified":"2026-03-30T20:16:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T20:16:33","slug":"why-is-mara-stock-down-monday-bitcoin-slide-pressures-mining-shares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=78357","title":{"rendered":"Why Is MARA Stock Down Monday? Bitcoin Slide Pressures Mining Shares"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>MARA Holdings Inc<\/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>) shares are trading lower Monday afternoon as weakness in <strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BTC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BTC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) continues to pressure sentiment across crypto-linked miners, even after the company announced a major balance sheet move last week. <\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin was down about 6.6% over the past week and lower again Monday, a backdrop that may be weighing on MARA Holdings and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/trading-ideas\/movers\/26\/03\/51546390\/applied-digital-stock-drops-23-in-march-on-debt-overhang-bitcoin-weakness\">broader mining space<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>MARA Holdings shares are sliding. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/MARA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Why are MARA shares down?<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>MARA Uses $1.1 Billion Bitcoin Sale To Repurchase Debt<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The move follows a March 26 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/trading-ideas\/movers\/26\/03\/51484913\/why-is-mara-stock-gaining-thursday\">announcement<\/a> in which MARA Holdings said it sold 15,133 Bitcoin for about $1.1 billion and used the proceeds to repurchase roughly $1 billion &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/trading-ideas\/movers\/26\/03\/51552749\/why-is-mara-stock-down-monday-bitcoin-slide-pressures-mining-shares?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Why\" is mara stock down monday bitcoin slide pressures mining shares>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARA Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:MARA) shares are trading lower Monday afternoon as weakness in Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) continues to pressure sentiment across crypto-linked miners, even after the company announced a major balance sheet move last week. Bitcoin was down about 6.6% over the past week and lower again Monday, a backdrop that may be weighing on [&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-78357","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\/78357","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=78357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}