Bitcoin Miner Marathon vendeu 1.500 BTC em janeiro, venderá mais em 2023
- A mineradora de Bitcoin Marathon Digital vendeu 1.500 tokens BTC no mês passado e atualmente detém 11.418 BTC, dos quais 8.090 BTC são irrestritos.
- A empresa produziu um recorde de 687 Bitcoins em janeiro de 2023, o que representa um aumento de 45% em relação aos 475 tokens BTC em dezembro de 2022.
- Marathon has made the “strategic decision” to sell some of its BTC holding in 2023 to cover some of the operating expenses.
- A mineradora também assinou um acordo com a FS Innovation, LLC, referente à formação de uma empresa 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.
Conforme Lançamento oficial da mineradora de Bitcoin, a Marathon publicou sua produção não auditada de BTC e atualizações de instalação da mineradora para janeiro de 2023, confirmando que vendeu mais de 1.500 tokens BTC no mês passado e atualmente detém 11.418 BTC, dos quais aproximadamente 8.090 BTC (c. $187,2 milhões) são irrestritos como de 31 de janeiro.
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 declarando falência 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.
Outra confirmação importante feita pela Marathon no anúncio foi um acordo que havia assinado com a FS Innovation, LLC, referente à formação de uma empresa Abu Dhabi Global Markets para o estabelecimento de uma ou mais instalações de mineração de ativos digitais e mineração desses ativos.
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