Marathon Digital Mines Invalid Bitcoin Block, Blames Bug Amid Community Concerns
Bitcoin miner Marathon Digital confirmed it mined an invalid block due to a bug during an experiment to sharpen the company’s operations.
The firm disclosed the incident in an announcement on X (formerly Twitter) saying the firm utilizes a small portion of the hash rate to experiment in the developmental pool to improve its overall mining capacity.
According to several reports, it mined the invalid Bitcoin (BTC) block at height 809478 citing a bug in its environment.
“The error was the result of an unanticipated bug that came from one of our experiments.”
The firm explained that the error that was discovered was not connected to the Bitcoin Core or Marathon Digital production pool adding that Bitcoin functioned properly.
“This incident, while unintended, underscores the robust security of the Bitcoin network, which rejected and rectified the anomaly.”
On Wednesday, Bitcoin developer 0xB10C revealed that Marapool was faced with an issue due to wrong spending outputs confirmed by other developers.
Within hours, community members flagged the incident with some calling for wider investigations although the miner explained that the experiment was in no way intended to alter Bitcoin’s core.
Similarly, BTC devs like “mononaut” said the mistake came from relying on ascending absolute fees to sort transactions while analyst Dylan LeClair noted that this sort of experiment should have been carried out on a testnet before a subsequent deployment on Bitcoin’s mainnet.
Jameson Lopp the co-founder of CasaHodl highlighted the events as proof of Bitcoin’s strength.
“Bitcoin is an impenetrable fortress of validation. No double spending allowed!”
The company’s share price was down 2.94% in the last 24 hours.
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