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Marathon Digital Holdings Pledges To Match Up to $500,000 in Donations to Non-Profit Bitcoin Research and Development Firm Brink

Marathon Digital Holdings, a Bitcoin mining company, has pledged to match donations up to $500,000 to non-profit Bitcoin research and development firm Brink on a two-for-one basis during the Bitcoin 2023 conference in Miami Beach, Florida. After the conference, they will match additional donations on a one-for-one basis until December 31.

The donations will go towards funding grants and programs that pay Bitcoin Core developers to write and maintain code for the world’s dominant blockchain. This pledge shows Marathon's willingness to financially support the Bitcoin funding ecosystem and ensure that developers are paid for their work.

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