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Founder of TradePortal.com, Inc. and First Stage Capital, Inc., Merrick D. Okamoto is a businessperson who has been at the head of 5 different companies and presently is Executive Chairman & Chief Executive Officer at Marathon Patent Group, Inc.

Marathon Patent Group is a bitcoin focused mining and investing company. After it eliminated its long-term debt in the first quarter of 2020, starting in August Marathon acquired 31,500 S19 Antminers from Bitmain, the leading bitcoin ASIC mining equipment manufacturer, then announced on December 28, 2020 that it had placed an order for 70,000 additional Antminers.