Cango produced $100M of Bitcoin two months after mining pivot

Bitcoin mining firm Cango produced practically $100.5 million price of Bitcoin within the two months following its full pivot to crypto mining, the corporate introduced on June 3.

Cango mined 954.5 Bitcoin (BTC) after going all-in on mining. Of the whole haul, 470 BTC had been mined in April and 484.5 BTC in Might.

This follows Cango agreeing to promote its legacy China operations to an entity related to Bitmain in a bid to focus solely on Bitcoin mining in early April.

Earlier in Might, Cango reported that it mined 1,541 BTC within the first quarter of 2025, price round $162 million on the time of publication.

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A quickly increasing operation

Cango mentioned it operated at a median hashrate of practically 30 exahashes per second in April and Might. In Bitcoin mining, hashrate refers back to the variety of cryptographic hashes a miner can compute per second.

Guessing and checking is an efficient description for the computing-intensive operation that miners are concerned in. They calculate the hash of the block they wish to create whereas altering a small quantity of knowledge till they discover a hash that’s appropriate to verify a block in change for newly minted Bitcoin.

The upper the hashrate, the higher the prospect of fixing a block and incomes newly issued BTC underneath the proof-of-work consensus system.

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Founders reduce take care of Enduring Wealth

Cango individually introduced that its two co-founders, Xiaojun Zhang and Jiayuan Lin, signed a deal to promote 10 million of their high-vote Class B shares to Enduring Wealth Capital for $70 million. The deal remains to be pending shareholder approval.

The corporate will protect the 20-votes-per-share standing of these shares. The founders can even convert all remaining Class B inventory to one-vote Class A inventory.

After the deal closes, Enduring Wealth Capital will acquire voting management with greater than half of the whole votes, or lower than 37% if Cango points share-settled mining-rig inventory. Nonetheless, the agency will solely maintain underneath 5% of the financial fairness.

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