Bitcoin: 14 publicly traded companies have sold more than $8 billion of BTC in 2026
Increasing numbers of publicly traded firms are liquidating Bitcoin, with sales surpassing $8 billion since the beginning of the year. The strategy largely targets Bitcoin miners shifting toward AI, as well as a…
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The year 2026 began with a persistent bearish trend for Bitcoin, with the price plunging from its mid-January high around $97,000 to less than $60,000 at the end of June, when the BTC price finally validated its cycle low point.
A complicated situation which displays a negative balance sheet still greater than 20% since January, despite a confirmed return to an upward trend which now allows BTC to return to position currently around $74,000, after having exceeded $86,500 in September.
In this context, many publicly traded companies holding Bitcoin have decided to sell part of their BTC, to the point of representing a total of more than 8 billion dollars, according to the latest count published by the Lookonchain account on the X network.
14 publicly traded companies sold 108,247 BTC ($8.08 billion) in 2026! MARA sold 40,581 BTC at an average price of $74,446, while Riot Platforms sold 20,264 BTC at an average price of $73,231.
Among these 14 listed companies are Bitcoin treasury companies, such as Empery Digital, Sequans or even KULR Technology, which have most of the time resold all or part of their BTC in order to repay their debts, but the vast majority of these companies concern more specifically Bitcoin miners.
Of the 14 publicly traded companies that have resold BTC in 2026 mentioned by Lookonchain, 11 are directly involved in the Bitcoin mining sector, for a total estimated at $7.6 billion. A sum of which a 70% share represents only the sales of sector giants Mara ($3 billion), Riot Platforms ($1.5 billion) and Bitdeer Technologies ($787 million).
A dynamic already largely underway since the start of this year, since miners listed on the stock exchange had already sold more Bitcoin during the first quarter than in the whole of 2025, with a total estimated at 32,000 BTC according to a study by TheEnergyMag published last April.
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