Marathon Digital Mines Invalid Bitcoin Block
The Bitcoin mining company confirmed the existence of an invalid Bitcoin block at height 809478. They have clarified that this was part of an experiment to optimize their operations and not an attempt to alter the network.
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They use only a small percentage of their hash rate for such experiments.
The mining of the invalid block raised some questions within the community regarding the security of the network.
However, Marathon cited the rejection of the block as an example of the resilience of the Bitcoin network.
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