Bitcoin miner Core Scientific shut down mining rigs from bankrupt crypto lender Celsius’s subsidiary Celsius Mining on Jan. 3.

Core Scientific’s financial raze Opt David. R Jones ruled that Core’s motion to reject Celsius’ mining contracts doesn’t violate the automatic pause on Celsius’ property, CoinDesk reported on Tuesday.

The motion in build a question to was filed by Core on Dec. 28 as an “emergency measure” to be released from its contractual obligation to Celsius. Core claims that hosting Celsius mining rigs is costing them $2 million per month. If the condo allotted to those machines were ancient to host other prospects, or its possess machines, Core believes it can well well generate more earnings.

Core and Celsius had been engaged in a moral warfare over the contracts spanning over several months, with the susceptible alleging that Celsius has violated the phrases of its agreement by no longer making required funds for vitality fees – something that Core claims has cost the firm $28,840 a day.

In a financial raze submitting in October, Core claimed that Celsius owed the firm $5.4 million which was but to be paid.

In a response filed after Core’s motion to reject the contracts, Celsius talked about it did no longer oppose the motion and agreed to have faith all of its rigs powered down by Jan. 3.

“We’ve agreed that they’ll flip off our rigs effective on the fresh time, and that they don’t accumulate to fee us, we don’t continue to pay for it,” talked about Celsius attorney Chris Koenig within the Tuesday listening to reported by CoinDesk.

Nonetheless, Celsius claimed that over 37,000 mining rigs associated to those contracts are the property of the Celsius financial raze property and can also aloof plunge below the jurisdiction of the Southern District of New York Monetary bother Court.

Celsius is Core’s biggest hosting shopper and moreover holds around 10% of Core’s secured convertible notes, amounting to $54 million.