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- Patent holding company, Marathon, spikes Bitcoin holdings in just one month’s time
- A sharp 17% increases in the company’s Bitcoin holdings since the last month
- Mining firm improves the facilities and upgrades with better technology to facilitate more mining
Bitcoin has become the de facto interest of several investors that want to indulge in something new. With the expanding market for cryptocurrency, Bitcoin is leading the sector with its soaring high prices ever since its origin. Investors, retailers and even some of the governments have been showing greater interest towards it. Banks, especially, have started to open up their methodology to more innovative ways that adopt blockchain technology. Marathon Digital Holdings recently said that it generated 265.6 bitcoins during the month of June, a 17% increase over the previous month.
Marathon Digital Holdings holds 5784 Bitcoins presently
Marathon Digital Holdings, which is a patent holding company that is the parent of Uniloc, known as a patent troll company, released a press release on Friday that stated it had increased its Bitcoin holdings by almost 17% since the month of May. The total Bitcoin held publicly and traded by the mining company’s Q2 haul amounted to 654.3 bitcoins, more than three times the nearly 191.7 bitcoins it produced over the initial three months of 2021. The Las Vegas-based firm said that it currently possesses about 5,784 Bitcoins that are of a value of $201.6 million according to the July 1 price of $34,855 per bitcoin, including 4,182 bitcoins that it bought in January as part of its effort to become what former CEO Merrick Okamoto called a pure-play bitcoin investment option.
Marathon Digital Holdings is supposed to announce its earnings on 13th August 2021. The mining firm has mentioned the installation of 1,740 miners in the month of June, bringing its team of 19,395 miners. In the beginning of 2021, the company intends to reach their goal of building more than 100,000 miners by the end of Q1 2022. The objective was to boost its hash rate power to 10.37 exahashes per second (EH/s). The firm’s present miners create 2.09 (EH/s).
Firm accelerates mining rigs in facilities
According to Marathon, the firm has received 18,702 S-19 Pro ASIC miners from Bitmain this year with an extra 1,056 Pro ASIC miners in transit. The company has also finished the construction of containers for mining rigs at its Hardin, Montana, farm. Marathon is supposed to install 1,200 more miners at the Hardin facility towards the end of September 2021. After this, the initiation of placing 73,000 miners at a 300-megawatt facility in Texas hosted by Compute North will also be begun by Marathon Digital Holdings.
Fred Thiel, who is Marathon’s present CEO, said in the same press conference that Marathon had performed maintenance and upgrades on systems before deliveries of miners started to increase, and in hope of a decrease in the global hashrate. The company is believed to be better prepared to receive the large upcoming shipments and take advantage of expected favorable mining conditions, according to Fred.