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Marathon Digital Mines Invalid Bitcoin Block Amid Heightened BTC Volatility

MARA Pool, the Bitcoin mining pool operated by the publicly listed Marathon Digital Holdings, had a transaction ordering issue on September 27 after it mined an invalid block at block height 809478. The invalid block was first picked by an X user, “0xB10C”, before Jameson Lopp, the CTO of Casa, a Bitcoin-focused company, later confirmed it. Lopp…
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Bitcoin miner Marathon mines invalid block in failed ‘experiment’

Marathon said the bug emanated from its experimental mining pool used to research ways to optimize operations. Bitcoin mining firm Marathon Digital has confirmed it mined an invalid  Bitcoin (BTC) block during an “experiment” aimed at optimizing the firm’s operations. In a Sept. 27 post, Marathon said it utilizes a small percentage of the firm’s hashrate…
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