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You can now mine rather than inscribe a square Bitcoin block image

Marathon had to forgo some transaction fee revenue to carefully craft its bitcoin block image with less competitively priced transactions.

Marathon Digital accidentally releases block with extra bitcoin

Publicly traded Marathon Digital activated experimental software and accidentally mined an invalid block, costing it over $150,000.

According to research from Arcane Crypto, public miners sold 14,600 BTC in June and a further 6,200 in July to pay debts and cover costs.

Marathon Digital has plugged 25% of its Bitcoin miners into a third-party pool to keep things going after a storm hit its Montana plant.

A 115-megawatt coal plant in Montana was practically earmarked for destruction until a Bitcoin mining company needed its “stranded energy.”