Core Scientific announces BTC liquidation plan as Ai data centers become priority

Core Scientific has announced it may sell up to 2,500 BTC by the end of Q1 to finance its AI data center expansion. The miner still holds a small treasury, but is dedicated to using its BTC for future investments. 

Core Scientific is the next prominent miner and data center company to announce sales from its treasury. The company plans to sell up to 2,500 BTC in Q1 to generate cash for its future AI data centers. 

“During 2026, we currently expect to monetize substantially all of our bitcoin holdings, subject to market conditions, to enhance liquidity and fund our planned capital expenditures and other cash requirements,” explained Core Scientific.

“We currently anticipate that the majority of these sales would occur during the first quarter of 2026. However, the timing and amount of any sales will depend on market conditions and our liquidity needs and may change,” the company documented in its recent filing. 

Core Scientific is the next mining company after Bitdeer to announce sales. As Cryptopolitan reported, Bitdeer tried to calm the jitters around its own treasury liquidations. 

The company plans to liquidate all the remaining BTC in its treasury, which is about 2,500 BTC based on different reports. Some statistics place Core Scientific as the 35th largest BTC reserve, with 2,116 BTC remaining in known wallets. Other wallets contain an additional 734 BTC from mining activities. The company itself reported a total of 2,537 BTC as of December 2025. 

Core Scientific sells mining rewards 

Core Scientific mines with Foundry USA and regularly sells some of its rewards. Now, the sales will also include the previously accumulated reserves. The company was already winding down some of its BTC mining operations to switch to AI data centers, reporting lower earnings in Q3. 

The company has mentioned that most of the sales will happen in Q3, but has not given a timeline. The exact BTC placements may depend on market conditions. The company has also mentioned it would limit the amount of digital assets and will not rebuild or support a treasury due to its cash requirements. 

In the past year, Core Scientific was also pressured by the increasing difficulty of the BTC network, as well as weakening market prices. The company has over 19.5 EH/s in mining capacity, but this may not be enough to produce significant rewards or to take risks with a longer-term perspective. 

Core Scientific slowed down block production by 57%

In the past year, Core Scientific noted a slowdown in block production, both in hosted and shared mining. 

In the fourth quarter of 2025, mining revenue was $42.2M, down from $79.9M for the same period of 2024. The company mined 57% less BTC, which was partially offset by market price growth. 

Hosted mining revenue was $6.3M, down from $6.5M in Q4, 2024. Hosted mining decreased as Core Scientific started reorganizing its colocation business.

CORZ shares are still up more than 62% in the past year, currently at $16.49, following the general trend of positive price action for the builders of AI data centers.

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