Marathon Buys Additional 10,000 Antminers to Become Largest US Bitcoin Miner

Marathon Buys Additional 10,000 Antminers to Become Largest US Bitcoin Miner

Nasdaq-listed Marathon Patent Group is buying 10,000 of the more efficient Antminer S19 Pro bitcoin miners from Bitmain in a deal worth millions of dollars. ▪ Marathon said the deal would boost the company’s operations to 23,560 next-generation miners, “making it the largest self-miner in North America”. ▪ When fully installed, the new machines will bring the firm’s total hashrate to 2.56 exahash per second (EH/s) – one of the world’s top 15 bitcoin miners. ▪ In August, Marathon bought another 10,500 miners of the same make for $23....


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