Q1 2025 pro forma cost-to-mine
Company: TeraWulf
What the later record shows
The date slipped
The Q1 2025 10-Q reports a cash cost to mine one bitcoin of $66,156, far above the ~$36k pro forma estimate. The pro forma figure may have been defined differently, so confidence is medium.
“Other direct costs of mining - non energy utilities per bitcoin mined $ 73 $ 28 Cost to mine one bitcoin (2) $ 66,156 $ 15,529”
2025-05-08 · TeraWulf 10-Q filed 2025-05-09 View cached copy (2026-08-31)Live source ↗
Checked October 9, 2026 against filings, releases and reporting published after the claim was made. Quotes are verbatim from the linked documents.
The claim, verbatim
Estimated pro forma cost-to-mine of ~$36k per BTC in Q1 2025 following the planned fleet upgrade.
Source (primary)
Nautilus Sale Announcement (IR page (investors.terawulf.com), ir_presentation)
View cached copy (2026-10-06)Live source ↗
Quote: “~$36k / BTC Pro Forma Cost-to-Mine ... Reflects the estimated pro forma cost-to-mine a BTC in Q1 2025 following the planned mining fleet upgrade.”
How we checked this
Checked on October 13, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The deck lists ~$36k/BTC pro forma cost-to-mine. A footnote says it is the estimated Q1 2025 cost following the planned fleet upgrade.
Confirmed in the source:
- TeraWulf's pro forma cost-to-mine is approximately $36k per BTC
- The figure is an estimate for Q1 2025
- The figure reflects the planned mining fleet upgrade
What we did: Read our cached copy of IR page (investors.terawulf.com) (https://d1io3yog0oux5.cloudfront.net/_26c9692236622f11a71632d61560402c/terawulf/db/2396/23300/pdf/WULF_Nautilus_Sale_Announcement_Deck_%2810-03-24%29vF.pdf) in full (14,394 characters, retrieved October 6, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms Nautilus Sale Announcement
Quote: “~$36k / BTC Pro Forma Cost-to-Mine ... Reflects the estimated pro forma cost-to-mine a BTC in Q1 2025 following the planned mining fleet upgrade.”
delays TeraWulf 10-Q filed 2025-05-09
Quote: “Other direct costs of mining - non energy utilities per bitcoin mined $ 73 $ 28 Cost to mine one bitcoin (2) $ 66,156 $ 15,529”
