The US Securities and Alternate Fee (SEC) has ordered crypto mining agency Marathon Digital Holdings to provide paperwork and communications for one among its mining amenities in Montana.

In response to a Monday submitting with the SEC, Marathon Digital received a subpoena concerning an investigation into potential violations of the federal securities regulation associated to its Hardin, Montana knowledge middle. Within the third quarter of 2021, the SEC ordered the mining agency to provide paperwork and communications for the 100-megawatt facility, for which it had made preparations to develop and inventory with Bitcoin (BTC) miners in October 2020.

Marathon Digital mentioned it was cooperating with the SEC’s investigation however didn’t go into particulars concerning the subpoena. A separate submitting from October 2020 exhibits the corporate issued 6 million shares of restricted widespread inventory “in transactions exempt from registration.”

Share costs of Marathon Digital inventory dropped roughly 17% on Monday to $63.07 as information of the subpoena reached main shops, as did these from main crypto mining companies, together with Riot Blockchain, Bitfarms, Bit Digital, and Hut 8 — falling 6%, 2%, 3%, and 5%, respectively. Although the inventory costs could fall when the value of BTC drops, knowledge from Cointelegraph Markets Professional exhibits the crypto asset has solely dipped roughly 2.4% on Nov. 15 to achieve $63,798 on the time of publication.

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Earlier on Monday, Marathon Digital introduced it was planning to purchase extra BTC and arrange new crypto miners by a $500 million non-public debt providing. Cointelegraph reported on Nov. 3 that the value of the corporate’s MARA inventory reached a six-year excessive, with the mining agency accumulating $460 million value of Bitcoin.