Mining
Bitcoin miner Mawson Infrastructure (MIGI) stated it agreed to promote its websites in Texas to a Singapore fund for $8.5 million in money and stablecoins.
Mainnet Capital’s M Turing VCC Oracle Section 1 Fund will purchase Luna Squares Texas LLC, which owns the contracts and leases for the websites in Midland, Texas, Mawson stated in a Wednesday press launch.
Mawson is shedding weight from its operations to focus in Pennsylvania. In September, it offered its facility in Georgia to CleanSpark (CLSK).
“The proceeds of the sale shall be used for additional debt discount, in addition to funding future expansions throughout Mawson’s different websites,” together with buying extra mining rigs, the corporate stated.
Mawson expects to have adequate infrastructure to assist 4.2 exahash/second (EH/s) of mining computing energy by the top of the second quarter.
Luna Squares LLC, a separate subsidiary, hosted about 10,000 machines for bankrupt crypto lender Celsius as of the top of December 2022, based on court docket filings. Celsius loaned $20 million to Mawson in February 2022 and the 2 corporations mentioned one other $20 million mortgage the next June. Luna Squares did not plan so as to add extra Celsius machines as specified of their contract till the mortgage went by, the filings stated. Luna Squares holds $15.3 million in Celsius deposits, based on the chapter filings.
Mawson shares fell 2.5% on Nasdaq as of 10:13 a.m. in New York (14:13 UTC).