Bitcoin mining and expertise agency Marathon Digital reported document progress in numerous classes in its 2023 annual earnings report.
The agency additionally revealed the event of a Layer-2 community for Bitcoin referred to as Anduro to construct upon the flagship crypto’s ecosystem.
Marathon chairman and CEO Fred Thiel stated:
“2023 was a record-breaking 12 months for Marathon, throughout which we achieved our main targets of energizing our fleet of beforehand bought mining rigs and optimizing our efficiency.”
In response to the agency’s steadiness sheet, it mined a document 12,852 Bitcoin over the course of 2023 and had a complete of 15,126 BTC on its steadiness sheet as of Dec. 31, 2023.
Document earnings
Marathon’s 2023 income grew 229% 12 months over 12 months to $387.5 million from $117.8 million in 2022.
The corporate’s internet revenue for the 12 months stood at a document $261.2 million versus a internet lack of $694 million within the earlier 12 months. In the meantime, internet revenue for the fourth quarter of 2023 stood at $151.8 million.
Diluted EPS for the 12 months was $1.06.
As of Dec. 31, 2023, Marathon held $357.3 million in unrestricted money and money equivalents plus 15,126 BTC in unrestricted Bitcoin — equating to a mixed complete price of $997.0 million on the time.
The corporate additionally expertise vital progress in its operations.
Marathon’s energized hash fee rose to 24.7 EH/s in 2023 from 7.0 EH/s in 2022, marking a progress fee of 253%.
Moreover, its fleet effectivity improved by 21% to 24.5 joules per terahash and the agency expanded its operations to 900 megawatts of complete capability. Marathon now operates 11 separate amenities throughout three continents.
Bitcoin Layer-2 Anduro
Marathon claims that Anduro will enable the creation of a number of Bitcoin sidechains and function a programmable software layer.
Marathon stated it’s at present growing the primary two Anduro-based sidechains: Coordinate, aimed on the Ordinals group, and Alys, an Ethereum-compatible chain for institutional asset tokenization.
Each sidechains could be developed additional by open-source contributors, Marathon famous.
The corporate added that Anduro sidechains will make use of a course of referred to as merge-mining. This permits taking part miners, together with Marathon, to earn income from Anduro sidechain transactions denominated in Bitcoin whereas concurrently mining on Bitcoin’s base layer.
The announcement of the sidechain represents a notable shift to Bitcoin improvement from Marathon, which has primarily targeted on Bitcoin mining since its inception.
