{"id":79618,"date":"2023-06-01T18:05:09","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T15:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=79618"},"modified":"2025-09-11T12:03:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T09:03:34","slug":"cleanspark-buys-12500-bitcoin-miners-from-bitmain-for-40-5-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/cleanspark-buys-12500-bitcoin-miners-from-bitmain-for-40-5-million\/","title":{"rendered":"CleanSpark buys 12,500 Bitcoin miners from Bitmain for $40.5 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American company CleanSpark announced the purchase of 12,500 new ASIC miners for Bitcoin mining, Antminer S19 XP from Bitmain, for $40.5 million.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Hot off the press! More miners have been purchased by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24CLSK&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$CLSK<\/a> for lower than the current average market price. Approximately 12,500 Antminer S19 XP units were bought for $40.5 million \u2014 or $23 per terahash.<\/p>\n<p>The units have a power-efficiency rating of 21.5 joules per terahash\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TKRxhWXlzx\">pic.twitter.com\/TKRxhWXlzx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CleanSpark Inc. (@CleanSpark_Inc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CleanSpark_Inc\/status\/1664259463556022273?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 1, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The equipment was priced at $23 per TH\/s, well below the market price, the firm said.<\/p>\n<p>Under the contract, 6,000 miners will be shipped in June by the manufacturer, with the remaining 6,500 shipped in August.<\/p>\n<p>Deploying the batch will add about 1.76 EH\/s to the company&#8217;s hash rate. CEO Zach Bradford said this will bring the company closer to achieving its 16 EH\/s target.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;We will continue to capitalise on the opportunities created by current market conditions to prepare for the <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-the-bitcoin-halving\">Bitcoin halving<\/a> next year. This XP order will not only increase our hash rate, but also lead to lower energy consumption per BTC mined compared with older-generation miners, which will bring more profit,&#8221; said the firm&#8217;s CFO Gary Vecchiarelli.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He noted that the company has already paid half of the batch cost.<\/p>\n<p>In February CleanSpark <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/cleanspark-buys-20000-antminer-s19j-pro-miners-at-a-25-discount\">bought 20,000 Antminer S19j Pro+ devices<\/a>. In April the firm announced <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/cleanspark-buys-45000-antminer-s19-xp-bitcoin-mining-devices-for-144-9-million\">the acquisition of 45,000 Antminer S19 XP units<\/a> for a total of $144.9 million.<\/p>\n<p>The company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleanspark.com\/bitcoin-mining\/\">operates<\/a> five mining facilities, four located <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/cleanspark-to-boost-capacity-of-purchased-mining-centre-by-50-mw\">in the state of Georgia<\/a>, one in New York. The CleanSpark fleet comprises 67,700 miners with a hash rate of 6.7 EH\/s.<\/p>\n<p>The company <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/cleanspark-reports-earnings-and-outlines-plans-ahead-of-the-halving\">announced<\/a> plans to bring the average energy efficiency of its equipment down to 26 J\/TH from 31 J\/TH.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American company CleanSpark announced the purchase of 12,500 new ASIC Bitcoin miners, Antminer S19 XP from Bitmain, for $40.5 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1180,1137],"class_list":["post-79618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cleanspark","tag-cryptocurrency-mining"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"30","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79620,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79618\/revisions\/79620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}