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Marathon Digital sees 670% revenue gain in Q3 as Bitcoin production surges

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Bitcoin mining agency Marathon Digital Holdings noticed its revenue surge 670% year-on-year in the third quarter of 2023, amid a virtually five-fold enhance in Bitcoin production.

The outcomes noticed Marathon additionally swing to a quarterly revenue, with $64.1 million of web earnings in the third quarter, according to the agency’s Nov. 8 outcomes submitting.

The agency partly attributed the improved monetary outcomes to a 467% spike in Bitcoin (BTC) production from 6.7 mined BTC per day in Q3 2022 to 37.9 BTC per day in Q3 2023. Equally, Marathon’s energized hashrate boosted 403% over the identical timeframe.

A part of Marathon’s increase in hashrate got here from its new, 27-megawatt hydro-powered mining enterprise in Paraguay, which it announced on Nov. 8.

Marathon’s CEO and chairman Fred Thiel stated the “important progress” has helped strengthen the firm’s balance sheet forward of the Bitcoin halving event scheduled for April 2024.

A $417 million be aware alternate accomplished in September managed to cut back Marathon’s long-term debt to 56% and in doing so captured over $100 million in money financial savings for shareholders, Thiel famous, including:

“For the primary time in two years, our mixed money and bitcoin holdings exceeded our debt on the quarter’s finish.”

In the meantime, Marathon stays dedicated to rising its hashrate in the quick to mid-term.

Its put in hashrate presently sits at 23.1 exahashes per second however the agency is seeking to increase that to 26 EH/s and an additional 30% in 2024.

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Marathon’s (MARA) share worth fell 6.9% to $8.55 on Nov. 8 however rebounded 4.3% in after-hours buying and selling following the discharge of Marathon’s earnings assertion, according to Google Finance.

MARA’s change in share worth on Nov. 8 (together with after-hours buying and selling). Supply: Google Finance.

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