Fred Thiel is the Chairman and CEO of MARA Holdings, Inc., one of the world's largest Bitcoin and Kaspa miners and the second-largest corporate holder of bitcoin. Fred Thiel's Twitter Score is 94 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of September 2026, ranking #7,942 (top 5%) among 487,142 tracked accounts.
Fred Thiel also serves as CEO of Thiel Advisors. MARA Holdings has reported holding 50,639 BTC, placing it among the most significant corporate bitcoin holders globally. In a notable legal development, a federal jury found MARA liable for $138 million in damages for breaching a non-circumvention agreement with investor Michael Ho.
Fred Thiel has been steering MARA into adjacent infrastructure opportunities. The company announced a joint venture with Starwood Digital Ventures to develop over 1 gigawatt of AI-focused data-center capacity, and separately sold $1.1 billion worth of bitcoin to fund expansion into AI computing and to repurchase convertible bonds. Fred Thiel posts from this account in a personal capacity, with opinions independent of MARA Holdings. Fred Thiel has accumulated 41,465 followers as of September 2026 across 9,130 posts, and has been mentioned by 153 accounts a total of 580 times.
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Fred Thiel draws a technically engaged audience from across the crypto and finance space. The accounts that follow Fred Thiel include 340 founders, 61 angel investors, 201 influencers and 4 VCs. Among them are Marc Andreessen, Laura Shin, Michael Saylor, Nic Carter, Anthony Pompliano and David Sacks.