Marathon Digital experiments with overclocking to increase competitive advantage

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One of many largest Bitcoin mining operations in North America, Marathon Digital Holdings, has shared in an replace that it has been experimenting with overclocking to extend its aggressive benefit within the Bitcoin mining trade.

Overclocking is the apply of accelerating the clock velocity of a pc’s central processing unit (CPU) or graphics processing unit (GPU) past the producer’s rated most velocity, doubtlessly resulting in improved efficiency in sure duties. 

In line with the company’s press release, it produced 475 BTC in December 2022, bringing its complete mined Bitcoins within the fiscal 12 months of 2022 to 4,144 BTC, a 30% enhance from 3,197 BTC which was produced in 2021. 

Marathon’s Chairman and CEO, Fred Thiel commented on the corporate’s resolution to experiment with overclocking, saying: “These efforts place us to develop our aggressive benefits additional and turn out to be a extra environment friendly and resilient enterprise as we proceed to develop.” He added:

 “We additionally took proactive measures to strengthen our liquidity place and improve the efficiency of our mining fleet.”

At present, the corporate has roughly 69,000 energetic miners, able to producing roughly 7.0 exahashes per second, in accordance with its replace. 

Related: Silvergate faces class-action lawsuit over FTX and Alameda dealings

Marathon Digital’s success within the Bitcoin area will be attributed to its partnership with Silvergate Financial institution, a monetary companies firm that gives banking and liquidity options to the digital foreign money trade. 

On Jan 5, Cointelegraph reported that Silvergate Bank had sold assets at loss and cut staff to cover $8.1B in withdrawals, as a consequence of a financial institution run triggered by the sudden collapse of FTX. The financial institution run on Silvergate has brought about the corporate to unload its property at a loss, and lower employees by 40% to cowl $8.1 billion price of buyer withdrawals.

On Dec. 16, a class-action lawsuit was filed against Silvergate, in an try to carry it accountable for its alleged function within the lack of FTX buyer funds. The lawsuit alleged that the financial institution is responsible for its involvement in “furthering FTX’s funding fraud.”