US Bitcoin miner CleanSpark sold 553 BTC from its February production for about $36.6 million, while producing 568 BTC during the month, the company said in its latest operational update. CleanSpark ended February with 13,363 BTC in its treasury and closed on a second Texas campus that adds 300 megawatts of ERCOT-approved power capacity. ERCOT operates Texas’s electrical grid.
At month end the company’s deployed fleet totaled 235,588 mining machines, operating with 50 EH/s peak hashrate and 43.2 EH/s average hashrate. Across its power portfolio CleanSpark has 1.8 gigawatts of capacity under contract, with 808 megawatts currently in use. The company reported 1,141 BTC produced year-to-date as of Feb. 28, and noted 1,086 BTC of its holdings are posted as collateral or receivable in connection with derivatives transactions.
CleanSpark is also preparing parts of its infrastructure to support artificial intelligence and high-performance computing workloads, reflecting a broader shift among miners seeking to monetize power-dense data center capacity beyond crypto mining. At the time of the update the company’s stock was down about 7.5% on the day, according to Yahoo Finance; sector-tracking ETF CoinShares Bitcoin Mining ETF (WGMI) was down about 6.4%.
Miners selling Bitcoin in 2026
CleanSpark is part of a wider trend of publicly traded miners liquidating Bitcoin to fund infrastructure expansion and AI-focused projects. Riot Platforms sold 1,818 BTC in December for about $161.6 million as it shifts toward monetizing power and data center infrastructure; Riot reported holding 18,005 BTC as of Dec. 31, down from 19,368 a month earlier after producing 460 BTC in December.
Bitdeer said in February that it had liquidated its entire corporate Bitcoin treasury, selling 189.8 BTC produced during the period plus an additional 943.1 BTC from reserves. Core Scientific reported selling about 1,900 BTC for roughly $175 million in January, reducing holdings to fewer than 1,000 BTC, and later secured a $500 million credit facility from Morgan Stanley to fund infrastructure for high-density computing workloads such as AI and HPC.
Rumors circulated that MARA Holdings — the second-largest corporate Bitcoin treasury holder with 53,822 BTC — might begin selling reserves. MARA’s vice president of investor relations, Robert Samuels, dismissed those claims on X, saying the company has not changed its core treasury strategy.
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