Marathon Digital has announced the purchase of additional Bitcoin mining hardware from Bitmain.

Co-ordinate to a release issued on Mon, the United States-based Bitcoin (BTC) mining giant has completed a purchase deal for 30,000 Antminer S19j Pro at a reported cost of $120.7 1000000.

The news marks a continued increase of Marathon's Bitcoin mining inventory, with Bitmain expected to complete the delivery of the new rigs by June 2022.

With the 30,000 rigs in tow, Marathon's total Bitcoin miner count will go n of 133,000, delivering an estimated hash rate of 13.three exahashes per 2d (EH/s).

To put the effigy into perspective, information from BTC.com puts the height three BTC mining pools at between xiii.16 EH/southward and 18.67 EH/due south.

At 13.3 EH/southward per 2d, Marathon will effectively command over 12% of the electric current Bitcoin mining hash rate.

Fred Thiel, CEO of Marathon, alluded to the benefits of such a commanding presence in the global hash rate distribution with the announcement quoting him maxim:

"Increasing our per centum of the total network's hash rate increases our probability of earning Bitcoin, and given the uniquely favorable weather condition in the electric current mining environs, nosotros believe it is an opportune fourth dimension to add new miners to our operations."

Related: Four Northward American Bitcoin miners that could benefit from the East-W shift

China'southward Bitcoin mining crackdown has upended the global hash charge per unit distribution, with North American participants expected to command a larger portion of the industry. Fifty-fifty earlier Beijing's actions confronting crypto mining, American and Canadian mining giants upscaled their capacity with new inventory from the two major Bitcoin makers — Bitmain and MicroBT.

The East-to-Westward hash rate migration may also serve to meliorate the carbon footprint associated with Bitcoin mining. Marathon is amongst a growing list of U.S. miners reportedly committed to "light-green mining."

Meanwhile, Chinese miners have reportedly begun to prepare up shop in Kazakhstan, with the immediate bear on beingness an increment in the Bitcoin mining hash rate.