Marathon Digital Launches Slipstream to Speed Up Complex Bitcoin Transactions
• Marathon Digital to launch Slipstream to expedite processing of complex, non-standard Bitcoin transactions that meet fee and protocol requirements • Will utilize Marathon's own mining pool to offer service as first publicly traded mining company • Aims to enable experimentation and development on Bitcoin by accepting more diverse transactions • Does raise questions around potential censorship and blocking of certain transactions • Comes after Marathon previously mined invalid block in 2021, citing event as proof of Bitcoin's resilience