Company: CLSKW
Filing Date: 2025-11-25
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001193125-25-297510
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Company: CLEANSPARK, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-11-25
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
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. 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, electricity cost, environmental factors (such as cooling capacity) and location play important roles in mining. As of September 30, 2025, our operating mining units produced an average computing power of 45.6 exahash per second (“EH/s”), reaching a peak of 50 EH/s during the period. In bitcoin mining, “hashrate” is a measure of the computing and processing power and speed by which a mining computer mines and processes transactions on the bitcoin network. We expect to continue increasing our computing power through calendar year 2025 and beyond as we expand infrastructure at our owned sites in Tennessee and across our portfolio of data centers in Georgia, Mississippi, and Wyoming, while also pursuing regional expansion opportunities and evaluating strategic acquisition targets. A company’s computing power, measured in hashrate, is a significant driver of its bitcoin mining revenue, and when compared to the global hashrate, determines the company’s market share, making hashrate one of the most important metrics for evaluating bitcoin mining companies.