Largest US Bitcoin miner dumps entire BTC stash as margin pressure intensifies

Bitdeer, the largest Bitcoin mining company by hashrate, wiped its BTC ledger clean this week.

Its corporate Bitcoin treasury now shows 0 BTC as the company sold 189.8 newly mined BTC and pulled 943.1 BTC from reserves.

A mining business usually carries Bitcoin like pressure in a pipe, some flows out as revenue, some stays behind in its treasury as a store of value/buffer, and the buffer tells you how management thinks about the next bend in the line.

Bitcoin hashrate ranking (Source: bitcoinminingstock.io)

Bitdeer’s buffer reached zero in one stroke, and that invites a question; what does the operator need the cash for, and what does the operator believe the next quarter looks like?

In mining, the bills arrive in fiat, power, hosting, payroll, parts, and the coins arrive in bitcoin, so every treasury policy becomes a statement about timing, risk, and access to capital.

There is also a second layer to this week’s printout. Bitdeer’s balance sheet already showed a visible Bitcoin inventory at year-end, and the company disclosed “Bitcoins held: 2,017” as of Dec 31, 2025.

The move from a four-digit stash to a weekly update that reads zero becomes a story about pacing, cash conversion, governance, and mining as a business that keeps changing its shape.

Put those together, the weekly update shows a company choosing certainty, converting a declining dollar-valued reserve into operating liquidity, and setting its risk profile closer to a utility than a stash account. This is where the word capitulation enters the room as a description of what happens when the margin gauge sits near its red line, and the treasury turns from strategy into fuel.

Using the weekly numbers, Bitdeer sold about 1,132.9 BTC in total, 943.1 from reserves plus 189.8 newly mined. Using a $60,000 to $70,000 band, a range around the Bitcoin price shown on Bitdeer’s Mining Insights page, that represents roughly $68 million to $79 million of liquidity, enough to matter inside a miner’s cash cycle, and enough to signal a change in posture.

A treasury line item meets a financing calendar

The BTC sale sits alongside a capital markets week that appears to be a deliberate reshuffle. Bitdeer announced the pricing of an upsized $325.0 million 5.00% convertible senior notes offering due 2032, and a registered direct offering priced at $7.94 per share.

The intended uses were a capped call transaction, repurchasing $135 million of its 2029 converts, and funding datacenter expansion, HPC and AI, ASIC development, and working capital.

This stack tells you where the money wants to go and what kind of risk the company wants to carry along the way.

Converts and capped calls are financial plumbing; they wrap volatility, they trade upside for runway, and they aim to keep the gears turning while the revenue line breathes. A miner that empties its BTC line item in the same window it raises and refinances debt is broadcasting a preference for controlled funding channels, and a preference for building capacity that generates invoices, compute, and contracts.

That framing fits a broader 2026 narrative, miners increasingly present themselves as energy to compute businesses, with Bitcoin as one revenue stream and AI and HPC as another capital intensive destination.

VanEck’s 2026 outlook argues the mining pivot creates both opportunity and strain, and it anticipates consolidation as balance sheets absorb the cost of growth.

Hashprice sets the tempo, and the forward curve sets expectations

Mining economics rarely fail with a bang, they drift, they squeeze, they force small decisions that add up to one large decision. The sector’s margin gauge is hashprice, the revenue per unit of hash, and recent readings highlight why treasuries become liquid.

Luxor’s latest Hashrate Index roundup, puts USD hashprice around $34.05 per PH per day, down about 4% week over week, and it notes that hashprice sits close to breakeven for many miners depending on costs and machine type.

The forward market prices average about $28.73 per PH per day over the next six months, a lower expectation that pulls on every treasury policy like gravity.

Difficulty is the second dial, it moves the denominator, and it can swing quickly when weather, downtime, or curtailment knocks rigs offline.

Bitcoin saw a record 11.16% difficulty drop to 125.86T, followed by a record surge to 144.40T in the last adjustment. The next adjustment is projected to be lower in early March. This pattern looks like whiplash for operators who plan capex and liquidity in weeks and months.

Bitdeer’s own dashboard reflects the same neighborhood, Bitdeer lists network hashrate around 1,022 EH/s and difficulty around 144.4T, and it displays “daily earnings” of $0.0289 per terahash. The operator has to live within those numbers and chooses where to absorb the volatility: inside the treasury, inside the debt stack, or inside the growth plan.

Capitulation arrives as accounting, then as consolidation

When traders talk about capitulation, they picture a waterfall, a sudden flush that cleans the book. Mining tends to capitulate in ledger entries and financing terms, coins sold, reserves trimmed, converts priced, equity issued, and weaker operators forced into mergers or shutdowns.

Bitdeer’s week fits a scenario where treasury liquidation acts as a financing bridge, a conversion of BTC into cash that supports a broader buildout and a reshaping of liabilities. This included machinery, proceeds directed into capped calls, repurchases of existing converts, and funding for datacenters, HPC and AI, ASIC development, and working capital. A business following that script uses Bitcoin as inventory that can be turned into concrete, chips, and contracts.

Luxor’s Hashrate Index forward market pricing around $28.73 per PH per day implies continued pressure on margins, and that pressure tends to push miners toward one of three exits, selling BTC, selling equity, or selling the business.

VanEck’s outlook places 2026 in a consolidation frame, and it points directly at the financing choices, dilutive converts, treasury sales into weakness, and the split between operators who can fund two tracks, Bitcoin mining and AI compute, and operators who can fund one.

That is why Bitdeer's sale of its reserves could be a canary in the coal mine. The event serves as a case study and a warning label. A miner can maintain exposure to Bitcoin through operations while holding fewer coins, and it can reframe itself as infrastructure with Bitcoin-priced risk managed elsewhere.

Across the sector, repeated versions of this trade would reduce the pool of miners that accumulate BTC on balance sheets, and it would increase the sensitivity of miner flows to short term profitability.

What we watch from here

First, the persistence of the policy, a one-week liquidation can be a timing choice, a multi-month pattern becomes a new treasury doctrine. The most useful signal is the next set of weekly updates, with the same “BTC holdings” line, and the same separation between corporate holdings and customer deposits.

Second, the cost of capital. The convert and equity terms show a company building runway, and that runway becomes a competitive weapon when hashprice compresses. In a stressed regime, the miner with cheaper money buys time, and the miner with expensive money sells coins, sells shares, or sells assets.

Third, the margin backdrop. Luxor’s Hashrate Index frames hashprice near breakeven for many operators, the difficulty whipsaw shows how quickly the denominator can swing, and the network is still adjusting. Miners build on these moving floors, and their treasuries become shock absorbers.

The cleanest read on this week is procedural, miners follow incentives, and incentives flow through hashprice, difficulty, and financing terms.

Bitdeer turned its reserve into cash, and it did so in a week where it also tuned its capital stack, and outlined spending priorities that sit squarely in datacenters, HPC, AI, and ASICs.

The sector can absorb one company clearing its treasury, and the sector also has to reckon with the pattern, a mining industry that treats Bitcoin as throughput, and treats balance sheet exposure as a variable to be dialed up or down depending on the cost of keeping the lights on.