{"id":53833,"date":"2026-08-04T08:58:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T13:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/?p=53833"},"modified":"2026-08-04T10:16:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T15:16:16","slug":"hyperscale-sells-some-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/news\/hyperscale-sells-some-bitcoin","title":{"rendered":"Hyperscale Trims Bitcoin Holdings, Still Sits on $61M Stack"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After upping its Bitcoin holdings in July, NYSE-listed Hyperscale Data, Inc. on Tuesday announced a sale last week.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company reported holding 958.5352 Bitcoin as of August 2, worth over $61 million at today&#8217;s prices. The company&#8217;s holdings sit across its subsidiaries Sentinum, Inc. and Ault Capital Group, Inc.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last week, the company sold roughly 150.5 BTC while ACG bought about 15 BTC on the open market, the firm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/hyperscale-data-bitcoin-treasury-at-approximately-959-bitcoin-worth-approximately-60-8-million-company-monetized-approximately-150-5-bitcoin-worth-approximately-9-6-million-during-week-ended-august-2--2026--302842141.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> in a statement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The week before, Hyperscale had <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/news\/hyperscale-ups-bitcoin-stash\">reported<\/a> having over 1,106 Bitcoins worth nearly $70 million at the time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Executive Chairman Milton &#8216;Todd&#8217; Ault III said the company planned to keep their long-term Bitcoin position while tapping it for short-term flexibility to fund data center operations, with the hope of generating significant cash blow this year and next.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We are confident in our ability to use Bitcoin as pristine collateral to further refine our overall capital allocation strategy,&#8221; Milton &#8216;Todd&#8217; Ault III, Executive Chairman of Hyperscale Data, said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hyperscale plans to build a $100 million digital asset treasury and achieve full parity between its Bitcoin holdings and its market value.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company is following in the footsteps of Strategy \u2014 formerly MicroStrategy \u2014 by using spare cash to buy Bitcoin.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Strategy in 2020 moved from selling traditional software to buying Bitcoin and allowing investors to get exposure to the asset via its shares which trade on the Nasdaq.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite aggressive buys this year and last, the company over the past six weeks has halted its buys and <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/news\/strategy-sells-bitcoin-after-buying-pause\">even sold<\/a> Bitcoin, also as a way to generate more cash flow as the price of its stock takes a hit and Bitcoin trades nearly 50% below its October record.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hypserscale offloaded more Bitcoin than it bought last week in a bid to generate cash flow. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3860,"featured_media":53834,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4378],"tags":[76,5437,6437,5440],"class_list":["post-53833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-bitcoin","tag-bitcoin-treasury","tag-hyperscale-data","tag-strategy"],"author_data":{"id":3860,"name":"Mathew Di Salvo","nicename":"mathewdisalvo","avatar_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/cropped-Mathew-Di-Salvo-scaled-1.jpeg"},"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Hyperscale-Trims-Bitcoin-Holdings.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53833","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\/3860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53835,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53833\/revisions\/53835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}