Remember when I argued with @gladstein that US based miners were not exactly something to look forward to?

Well allow me to introduce to you guys the newly formed "Digital Currency Miners of North America (“DCMNA”) https://twitter.com/gladstein/status/1328857317715050496
The brainchild of @dmgblockchain & @MarathonPatent, DCMNA is "a U.S.-based non-profit entity whose mission is to create a better mining environment for North American miners". Well doesn't that sound just great!
How are they going to do so you ask?

"Transparency, trust, and accountability"

Brilliant! How does that work? Well here are the gory details
Who are those guys anyway?

Well, there aren't a whole bunch of information out there. From what we can quickly gather @MarathonPatent is a recycled patent trolling company. Great people I'm sure.

@mokamoto care to chime in?
They reportedly control "7.6% of the total Bitcoin network’s hashrate". They also recently scored a pretty substantial supplier contract from @BITMAINtech https://www.coindesk.com/marathon-patent-agrees-to-buy-70k-asic-miners-from-bitmain-for-170m
Marathon Patent Agrees to Buy 70K ASIC Miners From Bitmain for $170M - CoinDesk

The announcement comes after a holiday weekend in which the price of bitcoin hit a succession of new all-time highs.

https://www.coindesk.com/marathon-patent-agrees-to-buy-70k-asic-miners-from-bitmain-for-170m
Should I be worried, you ask?

Well it's not like their footprints are all over the chain just yet but they, @dmgblockchain along with other reported partner @RiotBlockchain have managed to put together quite the war chest over the last year https://twitter.com/CoinDesk/status/1343596478242164737
Other interesting tidbits from today's press release

https://www.marathonpg.com/news/press-releases/detail/1220/marathon-patent-group-and-dmg-blockchain-solutions-to-form
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