CleanSpark vs OCEAN

How CleanSpark vs OCEAN compare on our ratings, mining company specs, funding, pros and cons.

OCEAN3.9/5

Feature	CleanSpark Visit	OCEAN Visit
Ratings
Our score	4.2/5	3.9/5
User rating	No reviews yet	No reviews yet
Track record	4.5	3.5
Costs & fees	4.0	4.0
Transparency	4.5	5.0
Scale & reliability	5.0	3.5
Support	3.0	3.5
Specs
Type	Public miner	Mining pool
Coins	BTC	BTC
Pool fee	Not disclosed	1% (DATUM) to 2%
Payout schemes	Not disclosed	TIDES
Minimum payout	Not disclosed	0.01048576 BTC (on-chain)
Hashrate	50 EH/s	22.15 EH/s
Stock ticker	CLSK	Not disclosed
Locations	Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee, Wyoming	Not disclosed
Company
Founded	2014	2023
Headquarters	United States	—
Investors	Not disclosed	Jack Dorsey
Strengths and weaknesses
Pros	Operates 50 EH/s of dedicated mining hashrate Fleet operates at an efficient peak of 16.07 J/TH Holds 1.8 GW of power under contract across four states Maintains 13,530 BTC in corporate treasury reserves	Non-custodial payouts sent straight from block coinbase transactions No user accounts or identity verification required to connect Fee drops to 1% when building block templates using DATUM SOC 1 Type 2 and SOC 2 Type 2 compliance attestations completed
Cons	Offers no retail hosting services, pool mining, or cloud mining contracts Operations remain concentrated in the United States Revenues remain exposed to Bitcoin network difficulty and halving cycles Carries $2.28B in senior secured debt maturing in 2031	Subject to block variance since rewards only pay out when blocks are found Standard 2% pool fee is higher than many custodial competitors Minimum on-chain payout threshold requires 0.01048576 BTC for active miners DATUM block construction requires running and maintaining a personal Bitcoin node
Best for	Public equity investors seeking Bitcoin mining exposure, Institutional research on industrial Bitcoin data centers, Enterprise clients seeking HPC data center infrastructure	Miners seeking non-custodial payouts, Operators running independent Bitcoin nodes, Small miners using Lightning payouts

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