Marathon got the wrong Bitcoin block as part of the "experiment" – Bits Media

The American mining company Marathon recognized, that there was a wrong block of bitcoin under the number 809478. He became the result of an “experiment” to optimize internal activity.

In a message on the social network X (Twitter) The company reported, what I used a small percentage of its hashrate to carry out such experiments. In this case, it is emphasized, that the company did not try to change or divide the chain of blocks.

After detecting an error in the code, it was immediately fixed. The company emphasized, that this error arose in the internal developments of Marathon and did not affect the activities of the main pool of equipment, as well as the most popular Bitcoin Core client.

Nonetheless, Developers and community participants negatively reacted to the “experiments” of Marathon. They suggested, that the company tried to reorganize transactions in the block, to get a lot of profit from the commissions. The developers emphasized, that such experiments should be carried out in test networks.

“This incident, Although unintentional, emphasizes the reliability and security of the bitcoin network, which rejected and eliminated the anomaly ", - Marathon representatives answered criticism.

In early September, it was reported, that on the Marathon Digital mining farms in Texas, the production of bitcoins has significantly decreased due to the extreme heat in the state.