This news release constitutes a "designated news release" for the purposes of the Company's prospectus supplement dated February 2, 2021 to its amended and restated short form base shelf prospectus dated January 4, 2022.
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - March 8, 2022) - HIVE Blockchain Technologies Ltd. (TSXV: HIVE) (NASDAQ: HIVE) (FSE: HBF) (the "Company" or "HIVE") is pleased to announce the production figures from the Company's global Bitcoin and Ethereum mining operations for the month of February 2022, with a BTC HODL balance of 2,374 Bitcoin as of February 28, 2022. The Company is also providing an update on its at-the-market offering, and conclusion of the Canadian at-the-market agreement.
To clarify the Company's recent press release of March 7, 2022, our planned 100 megawatt Texas facilities with Compute North could operate up to 4.0 Exahash per second of new generation ASIC miners.
HIVE is pleased to announce its February 2022 production figures and mining capacity:
- 244.4 BTC Produced
- 1.9 Exahash of Bitcoin mining capacity
- 1,814 ETH Produced
- Increased Ethereum mining capacity from 4.56 to 4.88 Terahash during February
- HODL position grows to 2,374 BTC
Frank Holmes, Executive Chairman of HIVE stated, "We are pleased to report HIVE has maintained its strong Bitcoin hashing power through the month of February even as the network difficulty rose. In February we produced an average of 8.7 BTC per day, and note that as of today, we are producing approximately 8.8 BTC a day."
Aydin Kilic, President & COO of HIVE noted, "We continue to strive for operational excellence, ensuring that as we scale our hashrate as a company we also optimize our uptime, to ensure ideal Bitcoin and Ethereum output figures. Mr. Kilic continued, "We also would like to provide an update on the BTC and ETH equivalency, where one can equate value of the coins produced daily. As such the ETH that HIVE produced during the month of February, equated on a daily basis, is...