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 scanned his node and noted that MARA Pool had spent an output before it was created, validating a double-spent transaction. Marathon Digital Mined An Invalid Block In Bitcoin, a mining pool or an individual miner can’t approve an....
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Bitcoin miner Marathon Digital found itself in the spotlight when it inadvertently mined an invalid block at height 809478 on the Bitcoin mainnet. The blunder was attributed to a transaction ordering issue, as revealed by pseudonymous Bitcoin developer and Spiral grant recipient 0xB10C. The incident underscores the intricacies and potential pitfalls of blockchain technology. At […]
Marathon, one of the biggest bitcoin mining dedicated companies in the U.S. and Canada, has mined the first OFAC compliant bitcoin block, only accepting transactions that comply with the directives of this government office. This has caused a stir in libertarian circles, that argue this can be the start of censorship in the bitcoin blockchain at a mining level. Marathon Mines the First OFAC Compliant Bitcoin Block Marathon, a North America-based mining company, has mined the first OFAC compliant bitcoin block yesterday, that only included KYC validated transactions and excluded....
"Any miners who've upgraded to Bitcoin Unlimited 1.0 should downgrade now! It just generated an invalid block." It’s afternoon in the ‘Miner in the World’ WeChat, one of the rare channels that bridges bitcoin's strained east-west communications divide. But the alarm isn’t being sounded by a miner. Rather, it’s from bitcoin developer Matt Corallo, and he’s up in arms about an issue many of his peers now believe could have accidentally split the $15bn economic network. Corallo quickly posts more links to explain the situation, which boils down to this: a bitcoin mining pool....
Marathon has revealed that the mining company has produced 47% less Bitcoin than expected during this past month of May. Marathon’s Bitcoin Mining Production Took A Hit Due To Power Issues Last Month Marathon Digital Holdings yesterday released in a press release its BTC mining updates for the month of May 2022. During this month, […]