MARA Holdings, Inc. Q1 FY2024 Earnings Call

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  • Quarter Overview: Q1 2024 was a transformative period, marked by Marathon's shift from an asset-light model to a vertically integrated Bitcoin mining infrastructure operator.
  • Capacity Expansion: Marathon doubled its portfolio size from 584 megawatts to 1.1 gigawatts, acquiring three mining sites (Granbury, Kearney, and Garden City) for ~$450,000 per megawatt—half the cost of new builds by competitors. Now directly owns and operates 54% of its infrastructure versus just 3% at the end of 2023.
  • Hash Rate Progress: Achieved a record high operating hash rate of 27 exahash, up from 11.5 exahash a year ago. Targeting 50 exahash by year-end 2024 (previously 35-37 exahash), supported by recent acquisitions and new miners arriving in Q3.
  • Launch of New Products & Services:
    • Slipstream: A Bitcoin transaction submission service generating 4.25 BTC in one month alone, increasing fee capture. MARA Pool showed up to 40% above-average performance on mempool.space.
    • MARA Firmware, 2PIC (2-Phase Immersion Cooling), Controller Board: Showcased in March, already attracting paying customers. 2PIC has a sales pipeline in tens of millions of dollars and internal installations are underway to improve operational efficiency.

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Operator: Good day, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to Marathon Digital Holdings' First Quarter 2024 Earnings Webcast and Conference Call. I would now like to turn the call over to your host, Robert Samuels, Vice President of Investor Relations. Please go ahead. Robert Samuels: Thank you, operator. Good afternoon, and welcome to Marathon Digital Holdings' first quarter 2024 earnings call. Thank you for joining us for our call today. With me on today's call are our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Fred Thiel; and our Chief Financial Officer, Salman Khan. Before we get started, I'd like to remind everyone that our prepared remarks may contain forward-looking statements, and that we may make additional forward-looking statements during the question-and-answer session. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties and actual results may differ materially. When used in this call, the words anticipate, could, enable, estimate, intend, expect, believe, potential, will, should, project and similar expressions as they relate to Marathon Digital Holdings are as such a forward-looking statement. Please refer to our earnings release for a full recitation of our forward-looking statements. Investors are cautioned that all forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, which may cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated by Marathon at this time. Some of these risks and uncertainties are more fully described in Marathon's pub

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