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Core Scientific‘s Marble facility in North Carolina. (Core Scientific)

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Core Scientific had stopped paying Priority Power Management in May 2022.

After several bankruptcies and fire sales, the rally in bitcoin’s price is providing some relief for the miners, although they may not be completely out of the woods yet.

The judge also indicated he would allow stockholders to form an official committee in the bankruptcy.

The bankrupt bitcoin miner stopped making payments to the firm right before it stopped paying off its debt.

The company joins mining firm Core Scientific in trying to offload the assets before they expire, with funds used to repay creditors

NYDIG had previously said it would object to a $70 million lifeline loan for Core if its own deal wasn‘t finalized.

The firm said the loan will enable it to replace an existing facility and give it "up to 15 months runway and significant flexibility."

The two firms have been engaged in litigation over a 2020 hosting contract, which Core Scientific says is costing it $2 million in revenue per month.

BlackRock, which already was Core‘s largest shareholder, previously held $37.9 million of the miner‘s secured convertible notes.

Bitcoin miners had a rough 2022, showing “how to not build a mining business,” However, industry experts don’t see 2023 as any better, unless markets improve significantly.

Computing power on the Bitcoin network dropped about 40 over the weekend.