Bitcoin Miner Marathon vendió 1500 BTC en enero, venderá más en 2023
- El minero de Bitcoin Marathon Digital vendió 1.500 tokens BTC el mes pasado y actualmente posee 11.418 BTC, de los cuales 8.090 BTC no tienen restricciones.
- La compañía produjo un récord de 687 Bitcoin en enero de 2023, lo que representa un aumento de 451 TP3T con respecto a los 475 tokens BTC de diciembre de 2022.
- Marathon has made the “strategic decision” to sell some of its BTC holding in 2023 to cover some of the operating expenses.
- La minera también firmó un acuerdo con FS Innovation, LLC, con respecto a la formación de una empresa de Abu Dhabi Global Markets.
Bitcoin mining companies have gotten into trouble recently following the price crash of the world’s oldest cryptocurrency due to the implosion and bankruptcies of multiple crypto companies in 2022. Interestingly, in 2023, the leading crypto coin has improved a lot and continues to see higher prices, even touching the $24k price level earlier this week. Mining firm Marathon Digital Holdings confirmed that they sold a significant quantity of their BTC holdings in January.
según el lanzamiento oficial del minero Bitcoin, Marathon publicó sus actualizaciones no auditadas de producción e instalación de BTC para enero de 2023, lo que confirma que vendió más de 1500 tokens BTC el mes pasado y actualmente posee 11 418 BTC, de los cuales aproximadamente 8090 BTC (c. $187,2 millones) no están restringidos como del 31 de enero.
Fred Thiel, Marathon’s chairman and CEO, stated that the company produced a record 687 Bitcoin in January 2023, which is a 45% increase from the 475 BTC tokens in December 2022. As per Thiel, this was a result of Marathon’s “team’s ability to work in tandem with the new hosting provider in McCamey, Texas, to address the maintenance and technical issues at the King Mountain data center that had suppressed our Bitcoin production in the fourth quarter of 2022.”
The Marathon executive further added that the company has made the “strategic decision” to sell some of its BTC holding to cover some of the Bitcoin miner’s operating expenses and for general corporate purposes. The plan is to continue to sell a portion of the BTC holdings in 2023 “to fund monthly operating costs.”
“Even with these sales, our unrestricted bitcoin holdings increased from 7,815 bitcoin as of December 31, 2022, to 8,090 bitcoin as of January 31, 2023, as our production improved and the appreciation in bitcoin’s price in January reduced the amount of bitcoin we had posted as collateral. Additionally, we ended the month with $133.8 million in unrestricted cash on hand,” Thiel added.
It is crucial to note that the Bitcoin miner’s stock plummeted almost 90% in 2022 due to the crypto market bear market and some miners like Compute North se declara en bancarrota due to macroeconomic conditions and market’s bearishness. However, it is crucial to note that the Las Vegas, Nevada-based company, was one of the very few crypto mining firms that refuted from selling any of their BTC holdings.
Otra confirmación importante realizada por Marathon en el anuncio fue un acuerdo que había firmado con FS Innovation, LLC, con respecto a la formación de una empresa de Abu Dhabi Global Markets para el establecimiento de una o más instalaciones mineras para activos digitales y la extracción de estos activos.