Bitmain S-19 miner purchase - December 2020 contract for 70,000 units
Company: Marathon Digital
What the later record shows
The date slipped · new target August 31, 2021
The Q1 2021 10-Q/A scheduled the first 7,000 units for July 2021. The Q2 2021 10-Q moved that tranche to August 2021 and spread the remainder through January 2022.
“with 7,000 units to be delivered in July 2021, and the remaining 63,000 units to be delivered in December 2021”
2021-05-11 · Marathon Digital 10-Q/A filed 2021-05-12 View cached copy (2026-09-13)Live source ↗
“with 7,000 units to be delivered by August 2021, 2,100 units to be delivered by September 2021”
2021-08-12 · Marathon Digital 10-Q filed 2021-08-13 View cached copy (2026-09-13)Live source ↗
Checked October 10, 2026 against filings, releases and reporting published after the claim was made. Quotes are verbatim from the linked documents.
The claim, verbatim
Marathon executed a contract with Bitmain for purchase of 70,000 Antminer S-19 units with delivery of 7,000 units beginning in July 2021.
Source (primary)
Marathon Digital 10-Q filed 2021-05-10 (SEC EDGAR, sec_filing)
View cached copy (2026-09-13)Live source ↗
Quote: “On December 23, 2020, the Company executed a contract with Bitmain to purchase an additional 70,000 next generation Antminer S-19 ASIC Miners, with 7,000 units to be delivered in July”
How we checked this
Checked on October 11, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The 10-Q states that Marathon contracted with Bitmain on December 23, 2020 for 70,000 S-19 miners, with the first 7,000 units scheduled for delivery in July 2021.
Confirmed in the source:
- On December 23, 2020, Marathon executed a contract with Bitmain
- The contract covered 70,000 Antminer S-19 ASIC miners
- 7,000 units were to be delivered in July 2021, with the remaining 63,000 units to follow in December 2021
What we did: Read our cached copy of SEC EDGAR (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1507605/000149315221010910/form10-q.htm) in full (105,149 characters, retrieved September 13, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms Marathon Digital 10-Q filed 2021-05-10
Quote: “On December 23, 2020, the Company executed a contract with Bitmain to purchase an additional 70,000 next generation Antminer S-19 ASIC Miners, with 7,000 units to be delivered in July”
delays Marathon Digital 10-Q filed 2021-08-13
Quote: “with 7,000 units to be delivered by August 2021, 2,100 units to be delivered by September 2021”
delays Marathon Digital 10-Q/A filed 2021-05-12
Quote: “with 7,000 units to be delivered in July 2021, and the remaining 63,000 units to be delivered in December 2021”