Bloomberg News reports that Marathon Digital Holdings Inc.’s loss for the second quarter has narrowed down. The revenue has soared as the Bitcoin miner boosted cryptocurrency sales following the rebound of prices in the aftermath.
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The Las Vegas-based firm stated that the company’s net loss narrowed by 13 cents per share to $19.13 million, from what was earlier $212.6 million, equivalent to $1.94 in one year earlier.
The revenue became thrice, registering at $81.8 million. However, it was lower than $83.45 million as per estimates of analysts surveyed by Bloomberg.
Marathon started a program in the present year for selling Bitcoin to offset the cost of operations. It has realized net proceeds of about $17.6 million from a sale of approximately 1800 tokens in the second quarter. As of June 30th, the firm previously had 150,000 mining rigs in operations and has owned around 12,538 Bitcoin.
Marathon – a Fast growing company
Marathon is one of the rapidly growing companies in the mining market by computing power. It attained this position ever since the industry’s migration to the United States occurred following the ban of the Chinese government on crypto mining activities in 2021. The miner raised hundreds of millions of dollars through debt financing and selling shares.
The company revealed in May that it is engaged in the activity of Bitcoin mining facilities in Abu Dhabi as it continues to energize the machines across the sites in the United States, including Texas and North Dakota.
Bloomberg News reports that the expansions have come despite the Bitcoin prices being low, with the surging cost of power and enhanced competition in the industry in the past year. The market rout, which has been prolonged and with escalating electricity rates in the past year, plummeted the mining margins, which had skyrocketed by as much as 90% in late 2021 when there was a bull run in the market.
What are the miners up to?
The miners are rushing to scale up with the use of new machines so that they can become even more efficient in part because of a Bitcoin blockchain update. This update has dramatically shed the mining revenue in early 2024.
Also referred to as the having, this pre-programmed event was found to reduce Bitcoin rewards to the miners by almost half every four years so that the supply of digital assets can be within limits.
Is Bitcoin mining energy intensive?
Bitcoin mining is a process that is energy intensive. The miners use expensive computers that are specialized for validating the records of transactions on the blockchain to get rewards in the form of tokens.
