Marathon Digital is a large publicly traded Bitcoin mining company operating data centres of specialised hardware to validate transactions and compete for block rewards.
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- Marathon Digital runs fleets of application-specific mining hardware to perform the hashing that secures the Bitcoin network, earning newly issued coins and transaction fees. Its economics turn on hardware efficiency and electricity cost.
- As one of the larger listed miners it features in debates over the energy use and sourcing of proof-of-work, linking it to sustainability questions around cryptocurrency.