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MARA Holdings (formerly Marathon Digital) is a publicly traded bitcoin mining company operating large-scale cryptocurrency mining facilities in North America.
Researchers in StarkWare's optimization challenge cut the estimated compute cost of a quantum-safe Bitcoin spend by 82%, to $59. The method covers only coins with hidden public keys, so the 6.04 million BTC with exposed keys stay outside its reach.
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Strive bought 2,000 bitcoin for $169 million last week, its biggest buy in four months, while its $90,170 average cost sat above a price near $86,000. Its $284.7 million in cash also has to pay a roughly 13% preferred dividend, so further buying depends on selling more SATA.
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A Bitcoin-mining chip designer has rebranded as an AI silicon IP vendor, and the pitch it raised on is power per matrix multiply rather than peak performance.
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San Francisco's Mara raised $7 million for a tube-launched interceptor weighing 250 grams, on the argument that fiber-spooled and self-navigating FPV drones have made jamming unreliable enough that buyers now shop on cost per kill.
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The company that vowed never to sell has taken $432.5 million out of its own reserve since May, and the dollars now sit in two accounts, one ring-fenced for dividends and interest, the other still free to buy bitcoin.
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Mara's pre-seed round buys the same number of shots as 35 Anduril Roadrunner-M interceptors. The pitch is that cheap FPV attacks require an equally cheap magazine.
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The listed cohort's realized hashrate fell 13.4 percent in six months against a 10.6 percent network decline. Two of its members now earn most of their revenue from something other than mining.
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