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2022-08-12 11:24:34

Is Riot Blockchain's Strategy Beating Marathon Digital's?

Riot Blockchain is moving to a vertically integrated housing and power infrastructure. Rival Marathon Digital is employing an asset light strategy focused on mining rig quantity.Power supplies rather than mining rig contracts now create the primary gate to hash rate expansion among the Bitcoin miners.From a power supply perspective, Riot deserves a higher valuation than Marathon in expected future hash rate to market cap models.Using the asset light strategy, Marathon can theoretically deploy more mining rigs and at similar ongoing costs to a vertically integrated operation.Bitcoin (BTC-USD) miner Riot Blockchain (RIOT) is transitioning from a hosted model to a vertically integrated housing and power infrastructure. Rival Marathon Digital (MARA) is employing an asset light strategy primarily focused on mining rig quantity. As two of the larger and longer standing U.S. based miners, Riot and Marathon make for a natural comparison. Riot is currently winning from a control and production standpoint, while interestingly, Marathon's use of outside hosting may yield similar costs and a higher theoretical rig count.The article below begins by considering the current production levels and ties to the two opposing strategies. Further, both companies have presented calculations showing higher theoretical return scenarios than the other, note the next two graphics. In its second section, the article focuses on the details of these strate...

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