Company: CLSKW
Filing Date: 2025-02-06
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000950170-25-015470
Chunk: 139

Company: CLEANSPARK, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-02-06
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 8
Chunk 139
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atts (“MW”) as of December 31, 2024. We intend to continue our growth in these regions and are actively developing plans for additional capacity in Wyoming, Georgia, and Tennessee. We have an independent data center operation in Massena, NY subject to a hosting agreement that operated 50 MW, which expired on December 31, 2024. The parties commenced wind-down procedures upon expiration, during this time miners will operate until they are removed in batches from allocated rack space. All MW allocated to the Company are expected to be vacated no later than March 31, 2025. We have no intention to mine, purchase or hold any other cryptoassets at this time or in the foreseeable future, and we did not hold any other cryptoasset as of December 31, 2024.

We design our infrastructure to efficiently, profitably, and responsibly secure and support bitcoin, the world’s most recognized digital commodity. We cultivate trust and transparency among our employees, the communities where we operate, our public market stakeholders, and the people around the world who depend on bitcoin. 

Bitcoin Mining 

Bitcoin was introduced in 2008 with the goal of serving as a digital means of exchanging and storing value. Bitcoin is a form of digital currency that depends upon a consensus-based network and a public ledger called a “blockchain”, which contains a record of every bitcoin transaction ever processed. The bitcoin network is the first decentralized peer-to-peer payment network, powered by users participating in the consensus protocol, with no central authority or middlemen, that has wide network participation. The authenticity of each bitcoin transaction is protected through digital signatures that correspond with addresses of users that send and receive bitcoin. Users have full control over remitting bitcoin from their own sending addresses. All transactions on the bitcoin blockchain are transparent, allowing those running the appropriate software to confirm the validity of each and every transaction. To be recorded on the blockchain, each bitcoin transaction is validated through a proof-of-work consensus method, which entails demonstrating sufficient computation through the “proof of work” process to validate transactions and post them on the blockchain. This process is called mining. Miners are rewarded with bitcoins, both in the form of newly created bitcoins and transaction fees paid in bitcoin, for successfully constructing a block with the required network difficulty and disseminating that block to the global network of nodes. The mining process now represents the largest distributed computing network on Earth due to demand for bitcoin, the commodity, and the revenues associated with securing it.

Factors such as access to specialized mining servers, energy,