Marathon Digital Holdings, the largest publicly traded bitcoin miner by market capitalization, has launched Slipstream, a service for people to easily submit complex and non-standard transactions to the bitcoin network. Slipstream is the first case of a public bitcoin mining company facilitating direct transaction sending services, made possible by the fact that Marathon operates its own proprietary mining pool, Mara Pool.
According to a press release sent to bitcoin Magazine, non-standard bitcoin transactions are often excluded from submission to bitcoin nodes' mempools despite their compliance with consensus parameters. These transactions, such as those associated with ordinals and inscriptions, were already possible, but Slipstream aims to facilitate this process with a formalized, easy-to-use process for direct shipping.
Fred Thiel, CEO of Marathon: “While direct transaction shipping services exist, most are rudimentary. “Slipstream provides sophisticated users with a simple, transparent and reliable means of adding complex bitcoin transactions to the blockchain, as long as they comply with the bitcoin protocol.”
Thiel also highlighted the importance of this company in supporting innovation and experimentation with bitcoin: “We believe Slipstream is mutually beneficial to the industry and to our organization, and we hope to leverage this announcement to further help those who are building on bitcoin. “
