Marathon Digital, a notable Bitcoin (BTC) miner, has confirmed the mining of an invalid block on the Bitcoin network. The invalid block occurred on September 26 at 9:42 pm UTC at block height 809478. According to the firm, the invalid block was mined as a result of an experiment on optimization.
According to Marathon Digital, the error emerged from an unforeseen bug within their internal development environment. This glitch was unrelated to Marathon’s principal Bitcoin production pool or Bitcoin Core, the leading software associated with the Bitcoin network.
We can confirm that Marathon did mine an invalid block. We utilize a small portion of our hash rate to experiment with our development pool and research potential methods to optimize our operations. The error was the result of an unanticipated bug that came from one of our…
— Marathon Digital Holdings (NASDAQ: MARA) (@MarathonDH) September 27, 2023
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