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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Aug. 05, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — HIVE Blockchain Applied sciences Ltd. (TSX.V:HIVE) (Nasdaq:HIVE) (FSE:HBFA.F) (the “Firm” or “HIVE”) is happy to announce the manufacturing figures from the Firm’s international Bitcoin and Ethereum mining operations for the month of July 2022, with a BTC HODL steadiness of three,091 Bitcoin and 6,820 Ethereum as of August 4, 2022.
July 2022 Manufacturing Figures
HIVE is happy to announce its July 2022 manufacturing figures and mining capability:
- 279.9 BTC Produced
- 2.2 Exahash of Bitcoin mining capability at starting of July
- Elevated to 2.26 Exahash of Bitcoin mining capability in the course of the month of July, with a median hashrate of two.03 Exahash of Bitcoin mining capability in the course of the month of July
- 2,957 ETH Produced*
- 5.77 Terahash of Ethereum mining capability at starting of July, some miners had been taken offline quickly for format optimization as a result of increased summer time temperatures
- 6.49 Terahash of Ethereum mining capability at finish of July, with a median hashrate of 6.19 Terahash of Ethereum mining capability in the course of the month of July
*The Firm’s manufacturing of ETH from GPU mining (together with selective optimizations of GPU hashrate) has yielded a complete ETH manufacturing of two,957 ETH.
Frank Holmes, Government Chairman of HIVE said, “In July we produced a median of 15.0 Bitcoin Equal per day, comprised of roughly 9.0 BTC per day and our Ethereum manufacturing of roughly 95 Ethereum per day. We’re happy to notice that as of as we speak, we’re producing roughly 10 BTC a day along with roughly 95 Ethereum per day.”
Aydin Kilic, President & COO of HIVE famous, “We proceed to try for operational excellence, guaranteeing that as we scale our hashrate, we additionally optimize our uptime, to make sure ultimate Bitcoin and Ethereum output figures.” Mr. Kilic continued, “We additionally want to present an replace on the BTC and ETH equivalency, the place one can equate worth of the cash produced every day. As such the ETH that HIVE produced in the course of the month of July, equated every day, is roughly equal a month-to-month whole of 185.2 BTC, which we discuss with as Bitcoin Equal or BTC Equal. That is along with the 279.9 BTC produced from our Bitcoin mining operations throughout July, for a complete of 465.1 Bitcoin equal”
The Firm’s whole Bitcoin Equal manufacturing in July 2022 was:
- 465.1 BTC Equal Produced
- 15.0 BTC Equal produced per day on common
- 3.77 Exahash of BTC Equal Hashrate (BTC hashrate plus equal ETH hashrate) as of July 31), with common hashrate of three.36 Exahash of BTC Equal hashrate all through July
Ethereum Outlook and Technique
The Firm acknowledges there was latest discussions surrounding the potential Ethereum “Merge” to Proof of Stake (“PoS”).
With respect to a timeline to PoS, the Firm notes {that a} particular block for the Ethereum Merge has not been specified. Till a selected block has been recognized and universally accepted by the Ethereum Basis, the Firm believes it’s indeterminate if or when the Merge will occur. For comparability, each Bitcoin halving occasion is at a particularly prescribed block peak (notably, each 210,000 blocks).
HIVE acknowledges there might be execution danger in implementing a enterprise technique if Ethereum goes to PoS, and we consider there can be continued demand for GPU based mostly Proof of Work (“PoW”) mining. As such, the Firm has a method within the occasion the Merge happens.
HIVE believes there’s intrinsic worth in a broadly decentralized PoW blockchain with Layer 2 sensible contracts, as nearly all of such initiatives exist on the Ethereum blockchain. If NFT and DeFi builders understand {that a} safe PoW Layer 1 blockchain is the very best taking part in area for his or her code-based initiatives, there might be a rise in Layer 2 purposes on the Ethereum Traditional blockchain, after the Merge.
The Firm has already commenced case research, analyzing hashrate economics of Ethereum Traditional and different GPU mineable cash at an industrial scale. HIVE has additionally been performing GPU optimizations all through calendar 2022, that are proprietary and supply the Firm with a aggressive edge.
If the Merge happens, the Firm expects that there can be a aggressive edge required in technical proficiency as GPU mining is extra concerned than ASIC mining. It causes that corporations or interest miners who’re the very best at GPU optimizations, will prosper. We anticipate that there can be extra algorithmic pushed utility of GPU mining, the place customers might mine a number of cash. This can be along with the aggressive edge miners usually search of getting the very best vitality economics, so that they have the bottom working price per hash generated. GPU miners might want to have a low price of hashing, whereas additionally being revolutionary to drive the very best yield (income) per hash, by optimizations.
GPUs which at the moment mine Ethereum are just one aspect of HIVE’s operations which enhances its fleet of Bitcoin mining ASICs. HIVE’s GPU fleet is comprised of two varieties of playing cards, our legacy fleet comprised largely of RX580s, and might be repurposed for different GPU mineable cash. The second sort being our information heart grade playing cards, particularly our Nvidia fleet which we introduced final 12 months once we joined the Nvidia Companion Community; these playing cards produce other purposes in high-performance computing (HPC) purposes. HIVE has been growing a brand new platform for our information heart grade playing cards to create new streams of income. The Firm foresees the creation of recent streams of revenues from GPUs, resembling offering HPC companies for rendering, AI, ML, molecular modelling, and so on.
New Brunswick Energy Prices
HIVE has navigated a number of months of excessive vitality costs in New Brunswick (“NB”) at its information heart campus, which have affected all companies which can be prospects with interruptible vitality contracts. Mr. Kilic famous “The interruptible vitality charges in New Brunswick have traditionally been between 3.5 to 4.5 cents USD per KWHR, based mostly on annual averages over the past decade.” HIVE additionally has a portion of the full electrical load in NB as mounted energy at roughly 6 cents per KWHR USD. Within the Firm’s fiscal This autumn 2022 (January to March 2022), the facility charges in NB based mostly on the Firm’s utilization (blended mounted and interruptible energy) had been roughly 12 cents per KWHR for 46MW of capability. Mr. Kilic continued “A good thing about being globally diversified, with 6 information facilities in three nations, HIVE’s different services loved energy prices of roughly 3.5 cents per KWHR for roughly 54MW of working capability.” Making an allowance for the common of HIVE’s international working prices for electrical energy, information heart workers and upkeep for all services in This autumn 2022, the full price was roughly 7.5 cents per KWHR USD, based mostly on a worldwide common working footprint of 114MW, in comparison with income of $49.8M USD (as famous within the Firm’s audited fiscal 2022 monetary statements), which equates to roughly $0.20 per KWHR. The Firm notes that it was in a position to profitably mine crypto currencies throughout these intervals, thus maximizing coin manufacturing.
Since then, the Firm’s common international working prices for electrical energy, information heart workers and upkeep, in New Brunswick have improved considerably, because the Firm has enacted methods to keep away from excessive interruptible energy costs in NB, which can embody once in a while, lowering consumption in periods of peak interruptible energy. In fiscal Q1 2023 (April to June 2022), the Firm’s common energy prices in NB have been 7.4 cents per KWHR USD, using roughly 52MW on common, and globally working prices for electrical energy, information heart workers and upkeep for all services is roughly 5.5 cents per KWHR based mostly on a worldwide common working footprint of roughly 126MW.
Community Mining Issue
The Bitcoin community problem decreased 6.5% in the course of the month of July. The Ethereum community problem had a sudden problem lower of just about 20% on the finish of June, which was adopted by a slight and gradual improve of 1.6% in the course of the month of July. These components impression our gross revenue margins.
About HIVE Blockchain Applied sciences Ltd.
HIVE Blockchain Applied sciences Ltd. went public in 2017 as the primary cryptocurrency mining firm with a inexperienced vitality and ESG technique.
HIVE is a growth-oriented know-how inventory within the emergent blockchain trade. As an organization whose shares commerce on a serious inventory alternate, we’re constructing a bridge between the digital foreign money and blockchain sector and conventional capital markets. HIVE owns state-of-the-art, inexperienced energy-powered information centre services in Canada, Sweden, and Iceland, the place we supply solely inexperienced vitality to mine on the cloud each Ethereum and Bitcoin. Because the starting of 2021, HIVE has held in safe storage nearly all of its ETH and BTC coin mining rewards. Our shares present traders with publicity to the working margins of digital foreign money mining, in addition to a portfolio of cryptocurrencies resembling ETH and BTC. As a result of HIVE additionally owns exhausting property resembling information facilities and superior multi-use servers, we consider our shares provide traders a sexy solution to achieve publicity to the cryptocurrency area.
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On Behalf of HIVE Blockchain Applied sciences Ltd.
“Frank Holmes”
Government Chairman
For additional data please contact:
Frank Holmes
Tel: (604) 664-1078
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