Company: CLSKW
Filing Date: 2025-02-06
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000950170-25-015470
Chunk: 73

Company: CLEANSPARK, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-02-06
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 2
Chunk 73
---
”, 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, electricity cost, environmental factors (such as cooling capacity) and location play important roles in mining. As of December 31, 2024, our operating mining units were capable of producing over 39.1 exahash per second (“EH/s”) of computing power. 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 2025 and beyond as we expand our infrastructure at our owned sites in Wyoming, Tennessee, and Georgia, seek regional expansion opportunities, and evaluate strategic acquisition targets. As of January 31, 2025, we operated a high of 40 EH/s of computing power. A company’s computing power measured in hashrate is a significant factor in its bitcoin mining revenue. 

6

We owned approximately 285,098 miners as of December 31, 2024, of which approximately 201,808 were in service as of December 31, 2024 and the remainder pertain to new machines ready to install in the Cheyenne, WY expansion and Jackson, TN and other expansion opportunities, are being evaluated for relocation or are pending repair. Our miners range in age from 1-48 months and have an average age of