According to Yahoo!Finance, “Marathon Patent Group, Inc. focuses on mining digital assets. It owns cryptocurrency mining machines and a data center to mine digital assets. The company was formerly known as American Strategic Minerals Corporation and changed its name to Marathon Patent Group, Inc. in February 2013.”
The Study of Failure
"By recasting real failures as mere pivots, Ries gives short shrift to the extraordinary tenacity exhibited by the YouTube, Twitter and Groupon founders. And by offering the pivot as an omnipresent crutch, a movement that aims to help founders avoid failure inadvertently reduces the prospect of failure to an afterthought. Until it's not. You don't hear about the thousands of start-ups that fail to pivot their way to success each year. They die quietly (Lewis, Geoff. "Failure Porn: There's Too Much Celebration of Failure and Too Little Fear (Posted 2014-12-04 17:00:14)." The Washington Post Dec 04 2014 ProQuest. 2 Dec. 2018.)"