MARA Holdings (MARA) present holds 49,940 bitcoin (BTC), a trove that puts the nationalist miner adjacent the 50,000 threshold and makes it the second-largest publically traded bitcoin holder down Strategy (MSTR).
At existent prices, the stack is worthy adjacent to $5.3 billion. Out of its treasury, 15,534 BTC are “pledged arsenic collateral oregon held successful a separately managed account” for the firm’s benefit, said the institution in its June accumulation update.
“This milestone reflects our disciplined attack to accumulating bitcoin done some mining and strategical purchases,” said MARA’s Chairman and CEO, Fred Thiel.
As for operations, MARA won 211 blocks successful June, a 25% diminution from the erstwhile period acknowledgment mostly to "weather-related curtailment and the impermanent deployment of older machines successful Garden City portion storm-related harm was being remediated," said the company.
The bitcoin miner is looking to grow its hash complaint to 75 exahash by year-end, representing a 40% emergence from past year’s year-end hash rate.
Shares are little by 2.7% premarket alongside an overnight dip successful the terms of bitcoin to $106,400.