Marathon Mines Record-Breaking 4 MB Bitcoin Block Linked to Runestone Airdrop
During bitcoin’s extraordinary price peaks in March, this week saw the mining of the biggest block by byte size, with Marathon’s mining pool producing a 3.99 megabyte (MB) block. This block, labeled as 832,849, carried a...
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