Marathon Digital Mines Invalid Bitcoin Block, Misses Out on Newly Minted BTC

Public Bitcoin mining firm Marathon Digital mined an invalid Bitcoin block, causing them to miss out on newly minted BTC.
An invalid block violates Bitcoin's consensus rules and is rejected by network nodes.
Marathon attributed the invalid block to an "anomaly" and bug from one of their experiments optimizing operations.
After noticing the invalid block, Marathon stock dropped 2.9% on the day.
It appears transactions were in the wrong order in the block, causing it to be invalid.

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9/27/2023

Marathon Digital Mines Invalid Bitcoin Block Due to Transaction Ordering Error

Bitcoin mining company Marathon Digital (MARA) mined an invalid Bitcoin block due to a transaction ordering issue, resulting in the block being rejected by other node operators.