Bitcoin Miner Core Scientific Gets $100M Equity Financing Despite Bear Market

Core has been raising cash by selling some of the bitcoins it has been mining. Last month, it sold 7,202 bitcoins at an average price of $23,000 to raise about $167 million. The miner said it intends to use the proceeds from the sales mainly for payments toward ASIC servers, capital investments in additional data-center capacity and debt repayments.