{"id":5263,"date":"2023-02-02T17:48:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T17:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci02b6eb2d6008243d"},"modified":"2023-02-02T17:48:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T17:48:00","slug":"cleanspark-mines-record-697-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/business\/cleanspark-mines-record-697-bitcoin","title":{"rendered":"CleanSpark Mines Record 697 Bitcoin In January, A 50% Increase Since December"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><p>CleanSpark has reported that the firm mined a record 697 bitcoin in a single month, an increase of 50% from December 2022\u2019s amount.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had a banner month, and not just because we mined a record number of bitcoin,\u201d Zach Bradford, CEO of CleanSpark, said. \u201cWe also had our most reliable month ever, achieving 98% uptime across all of our sites.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The company also reported that its bitcoin holdings were now at 301 BTC, an increase of 32% since December 2022. According to the report, \u201cThe Company funded growth and operations through the sale of 624 bitcoins in January 2023 at an average of approximately $19K per BTC. Sales of BTC equated to proceeds of approximately $11.9 million.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>CleanSpark currently has a fleet of approximately 66,000 latest-generation bitcoin miners with a hash rate of 6.6 EH\/s, an increase of 7% from December 2022 and up 214% from January 2022 respectively. Just last month, CleanSpark <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/business\/cleanspark-50-megawatt-bitcoin-mining-expansion\">reported breaking ground<\/a> on its newest bitcoin mining facility, a planned 50 MW expansion in Washington, Georgia. <\/p>\n<p>However, the company has not gone without its challenges, as it faces an investor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.docketalarm.com\/cases\/New_York_Southern_District_Court\/1--21-cv-00511\/Bishins_v._CleanSpark_Inc._et_al\/36\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lawsuit<\/a>, and most recently, a law firm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20230127005459\/en\/CLEANSPARK-INVESTIGATION-INITIATED-by-Former-Louisiana-Attorney-General-Kahn-Swick-Foti-LLC-Investigates-the-Officers-and-Directors-of-CleanSpark-Inc.---CLSK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">investigation<\/a> into the officers and directors of the company. The latest motion to dismiss that lawsuit was <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/litigation\/cleanspark-investor-suit-over-bitcoin-mining-pivot-clears-hurdle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">denied<\/a> in court.<\/p>\n<p>Despite these developments, the company is continuing to move forward with its expansion plans, and is seemingly optimistic about its future prospects in the bitcoin mining industry. Isaac Holyoak, CleanSpark&#8217;s chief communications officer, commented to Bitcoin Magazine that &#8220;This is a frivolous lawsuit and we will continue to vigorously defend ourselves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Article updated February 2 to include comments from CleanSpark.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bitcoin mining firm is reaping the rewards of expansion as it had a record month with solid reliability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2730,"featured_media":4278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1425,97,93,1426],"class_list":["post-5263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-cleanspark","tag-mining","tag-news","tag-public-miners"],"author_data":{"id":2730,"name":"BtcCasey","nicename":"casey","avatar_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/jn_tjlo_400x400.jpg"},"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/bitcoin-inflation-price-rising-bullish-chart.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2730"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}