This news release constitutes a "designated news release" for the purposes of the Company's prospectus supplement dated February 2, 2021 to its short form base shelf prospectus dated January 27, 2021.
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - February 15, 2022) - HIVE Blockchain Technologies Ltd. (TSXV: HIVE) (NASDAQ: HIVE) (FSE: HBF) (the "Company" or "HIVE") is pleased to announce a record earnings report for the third quarter ended December 31, 2021 (all amounts in US dollars, unless otherwise indicated).
For the three-month period, revenue rose to $68.2 million, up 30% compared with last quarter, and 397% since the same quarter last year. Net income reached $64.2 million, up 7% from last quarter, and 273% since the prior year.
Hive's combined liquid BTC and ETH had a gross value of $168 million up 11x from $15 million a year ago ended December 31, 2020. HIVE ended the current December quarter holding 1,813 Bitcoin ("BTC") worth $83.1 million and 23,290 Ether ("ETH") worth $84.9 million.
Frank Holmes, HIVE's Executive Chairman, stated, "We wish to again thank our loyal shareholders for believing in our vision to mine both Ethereum and Bitcoin to generate robust cash flow returns on invested capital and we believe our results continue to validate the significant contribution to our strategy to mine both BTC and ETH and HODL as many coins as possible."
Darcy Daubaras, HIVE's CFO, said, "A year ago, we made the conscious decision not to sell our mined cryptocurrency or undertake an expensive financing when brokers were offering capital at 20% discounts or encouraging us to borrow against our BTC and ETH assets at a 12% cost of capital in the scramble by crypto mining companies to purchase more ASIC chips. HIVE's modest equity funding's were done at prevailing market prices or premiums to the stock price, and this has helped us generate the highest robust returns on invested capital relative to our peers."
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