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Bitcoin miner Marathon mines invalid block in failed ‘experiment’

Bitcoin mining firm Marathon Digital has confirmed it mined an invalid  Bitcoin (BTC) block during an “experiment” aimed at optimizing the firm’s operations.In a Sept. 27 post, Marathon said it utilizes a small percentage of the firm’s hashrate toward these experiments and stressed they weren’t trying to alter the network in

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Marathon reportedly mined an invalid Bitcoin block

Marathon Digital Holdings (MARA), a publicly traded crypto mining company, reportedly mined an invalid block on Bitcoin, according to developers, miners and researchers The invalid block was at height 809478, with anonymous Bitcoin developer “0xB10C” writing on ooX that MaraPool — Marathon’s mining pool — had a “transaction ordering issue.” It

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DOJ 'Overreaching' in Trying to Block Sam Bankman-Fried's Proposed Witnesses, Defense Says

Prosecutors with the U.S. Department of Justice are trying to limit FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried's right to a fair trial by moving to block all of his proposed expert witnesses, defense attorneys said. The DOJ, for its part, said the defense mischaracterized a proposed prosecution witness's planned testimony. Source

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Sam Bankman-Fried files memo asking court to block prosecutor evidence

Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and former CEO of defunct cryptocurrency exchange FTX, filed a memorandum on Sep. 1 asking the court to deny the prosecutor’s in limine requests. The memorandum, penned by SBF’s lawyer Mark Cohen, calls the requests filed by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) “unfounded and overbroad,” among

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