Malikie Innovations, a company that acquired thousands of patents from BlackBerry in 2023, has filed lawsuits against major Bitcoin mining companies Marathon Digital and Core Scientific for allegedly using the Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) technology employed by the Bitcoin blockchain. The plaintiffs claim ownership of these intellectual property rights. These legal actions follow Malikie Innovations’ acquisition of 32,000 ‘non-core’ patents from BlackBerry in 2023. The lawsuit centers around groundbreaking innovations in ECC, which have been adopted by Bitcoin’s design team. According to the filings, defendants Marathon Digital Holdings and Core Scientific are using ECC-based cryptographic methods that fall under Malikie’s patented practices for their Bitcoin mining operations.