Marathon Digital Mines Invalid Bitcoin Block, Blames Bug Amid Community Concerns
Bitcoin miner Marathon Digital confirmed it mined an invalid block due to a bug during an experiment to sharpen the company’s operations. The firm disclosed the incident in an announcement on X (formerly Twitter) saying...
The firm disclosed the incident in an announcement on X (formerly Twitter) saying the firm utilizes a small portion of the hash rate to experiment in the developmental pool to improve its overall mining capacity.
According to several reports, it mined the invalid Bitcoin (BTC) block at height 809478 citing a bug in its environment....
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