{"id":584678,"date":"2026-04-16T19:27:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T19:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/public-crypto-miners-sold-more-btc-in-q1-2026-than-all-of-2025-report\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T19:27:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T19:27:06","slug":"public-crypto-miners-sold-more-btc-in-q1-2026-than-all-of-2025-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/public-crypto-miners-sold-more-btc-in-q1-2026-than-all-of-2025-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Public crypto miners sold more BTC in Q1 2026 than all of 2025: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjYtMDQvMDE5ZDk3N2UtNTJlNy03NjU1LTgwYzEtODQ5NDhiYzM4ODFiLmpwZw==.jpg\" alt=\"Public crypto miners sold more BTC in Q1 2026 than all of 2025: Report\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mining companies are now split between those liquidating Bitcoin to cover operating expenses and those holding their BTC in reserve to fuel future growth.<\/p>\n<p>Publicly traded Bitcoin (<a title=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/price-indexes\/bitcoin\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/price-indexes\/bitcoin\">BTC<\/a>) mining companies sold more BTC in Q1 2026 than in all four quarters of 2025, as business conditions tighten for the mining industry.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Publicly listed BTC miners, including MARA, CleanSpark, Riot, Cango, Core Scientific and Bitdeer, have <a title=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/bitcoin-miners-unwind-btc-treasuries-margin-pressure\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/bitcoin-miners-unwind-btc-treasuries-margin-pressure\">collectively sold more than 32,000 BTC<\/a> in Q1 2026, <a title=\"https:\/\/theenergymag.com\/news\/2026-04-16\/public-miner-sell-record-bitcoin\" href=\"https:\/\/theenergymag.com\/news\/2026-04-16\/public-miner-sell-record-bitcoin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according<\/a> to TheEnergyMag.<\/p>\n<p>The Q1 sales surpassed the 20,000 BTC sold in Q2 2022 during the crypto bear market triggered by the <a title=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/features\/how-terra-s-collapse-will-impact-future-stablecoin-regulations\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/features\/how-terra-s-collapse-will-impact-future-stablecoin-regulations\">collapse of the Terra-Luna ecosystem<\/a>, setting a \u201cnew record\u201d for BTC miner sales in a single quarter, TheMinerMag said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/publicly-mining-sold-btc-q1-2026-all-2025\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mining companies are now split between those liquidating Bitcoin to cover operating expenses and those holding their BTC in reserve to fuel future growth. Publicly traded Bitcoin (BTC) mining companies sold more BTC in Q1 2026 than in all four quarters of 2025, as business conditions tighten for the mining industry.\u00a0 Publicly listed BTC miners, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":584679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-584678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}