The largest American mining company MARA Holdings (formerly Marathon Digital) announced another acquisition of 703,386,408,84,796. In total, the miner bought 6,474 BTC this month at an average price of $95,395 per bitcoin. Now MARA Holdings' BTC account holds 34,794 coins worth about $3.3 billion.

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The public mining company received money to purchase additional bitcoins by issuing convertible bonds for $1 billion. MARA Holdings spent one part of the funds raised to pay off old debt obligations, the other - to purchase bitcoins and operating expenses.

After the announcement of the acquisition of the flagship cryptocurrency, MARA Holdings shares on the stock exchange rose by 7.81% to $26.92. According to Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Finance, the miner's shares have risen in price by 42.13% over the past month and by 17.4% since the beginning of the year. The company's market capitalization has reached $9 billion.