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Marathon Digital Accidentally Releases Block with Extra Bitcoin

- AND Then Loses 6.25 Bitcoin For it!

"#Marathon acknowledged the invalid block, which it noticed after the fact, blaming the error on a small bug in some experimental code it was testing. It agreed that the block was invalid and acknowledged the resilience of the #Bitcoin network."

That was one expensive test! 😨

Full article here. 👇🏽
https://protos.com/marathon-digital-accidentally-releases-block-with-extra-bitcoin/

GM Plebs,😀☕

#ProofofWork #Bitcoinmining #plebchain #btc #nostr