Marathon Digital bungles crypto impairment sums, will reissue financials

cointelegraph.com:

Bitcoin (BTC) miner Marathon Digitial will reissue a number of previous financial statements after the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) pointed out some accounting errors the firm made.

According to a Feb. 27 SEC filing, Marathon will restate its unaudited Q1, Q2, and Q3 quarterly reports from both 2021 and 2022 in addition to its audited annual report from 2021.

Marathon noted that affected financial statements, related earnings releases and other financial communications during these periods “should not be relied upon.”

The issues highlighted by the SEC were Marathon’s method for calculating impairment on digital assets, as well as Marathon’s determination that it had acted as an agent while operating a Bitcoin mining pool rather than a principal.

A principal is an entity that has the legal authority for decisions, while an agent is an entity that can only act on behalf of a principal.

Marathon noted that by changing the determination of its role in operating the pool from an agent to a principal, revenues and cost of revenues will see minor increases but does not believe the change will impact its bottom line.

As a result of the accounting issues, Marathon postponed its fourth-quarter 2022 earnings call which was set to take place on Feb. 28, and will postpone the publication of its corresponding financial results.

Today, we announced that we are cancelling our webcast and conference call for Q4 & FY 2022, initially scheduled for today at 4:30 p.m. ET, and are postponing the publication of our corresponding financial results. For more, please see this press release: https://t.co/UAryIr56aC

Marathon intends to file its results for 2022 by Mar. 16, after notifying the SEC it would take up to 15 days to make the