HIVE Blockchain Provides April 2022 Production Update

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Vancouver, British Columbia–(Newsfile Corp. – Could 4, 2022) – HIVE Blockchain Applied sciences Ltd. (TSX.V:HIVE) (Nasdaq:HIVE) (FSE:HBF) (the “Firm” or “HIVE”) is happy to announce the manufacturing figures from the Firm’s world Bitcoin and Ethereum mining operations for the month of April 2022, with a BTC HODL steadiness of two,832 Bitcoin and 15,914 Ethereum as of Could 2, 2022. As well as, the Firm is offering an replace on our continued operational scaling with renewable inexperienced power.

April 2022 Manufacturing Figures

HIVE is happy to announce its April 2022 manufacturing figures and mining capability:

268.8 BTC Produced
2.0 Exahash of Bitcoin mining capability at starting of April
Elevated to 2.15 Exahash of Bitcoin mining capability at finish of April
2,537 ETH Produced*
6.1 Terahash of Ethereum mining capability at starting of April
Elevated to six.26 Terahash of Ethereum mining capability at finish of April

*The Firm’s manufacturing of ETH from GPU mining (together with selective optimizations of GPU hashrate) has yielded a complete ETH manufacturing of two,537 ETH.

Frank Holmes, Government Chairman of HIVE acknowledged “We’re more than happy to report HIVE has continued its robust momentum in hashing energy growth, notably our Bitcoin mining hash energy grew by 8% this month, by means of ongoing optimizations and electrical upgrades. In April we produced a mean of 9.0 BTC per day, and we’re happy to notice that as of at this time, we’re producing roughly 9.2 BTC a day even after the current issue enhance of 5.5%.”

Aydin Kilic, President & COO of HIVE famous “We proceed to attempt for operational excellence, guaranteeing that as we scale our hashrate as an organization we additionally optimize our uptime, to make sure preferrred Bitcoin and Ethereum output figures. Mr. Kilic continued, “We additionally wish to present an replace on the BTC and ETH equivalency, the place one can equate worth of the cash produced day by day. As such the ETH that HIVE produced in the course of the month of April, calculated every day, is roughly equal a month-to-month complete of 189.5 BTC, which we seek advice from as Bitcoin equal or BTC equal. That is along with the 268.8 BTC produced from our Bitcoin mining operations throughout April, for a complete of 458.3 Bitcoin equal”

The Firm’s complete Bitcoin equal manufacturing in April 2022 was:

458.3 BTC Equal Produced
15.3 BTC Equal produced per day on common
3.4 Exahash of BTC Equal Hashrate (BTC hashrate plus equal ETH Hashrate as of April 30)

Profitable Inexperienced Power Scaling By means of Provide Disruptions

HIVE is happy to supply a market replace on the Firm’s development plans for the 12 months forward. The Firm will likely be at 6.2 Exahash BTC equal hashrate in a single 12 months, based mostly on contracted month-to-month deliveries of ASIC and GPU {hardware} (with deposits in place), up from 3.4 Exahash of BTC equal hashrate at this time.

The Firm has been constantly receiving ASIC and GPU deliveries month-to-month and is hopeful this to proceed on schedule. Nonetheless the availability chain challenges which have confronted the world for the previous 2 years has not ended, with lockdowns persevering with to happen in China which is a supply of a substantial amount of the world’s manufacturing. HIVE has fastidiously endeavoured to steadiness sustainable development of its information middle infrastructure to optimize the incoming ASIC and GPU {hardware} orders, in order that we’ve most working hashrate, and the very best effectivity in Bitcoin per Exahash amongst business friends.

The crypto mining business generally seems to seek out itself at a crossroads with a provide of very costly ASIC chips and no few locations to plug them in. Furthermore, new market entrants racing to safe a place within the Bitcoin mining ecosystem cope with a present payback of shopping for ASIC chips at present retail costs from Chinese language producers with near a 2-year ROI. Solely a 12 months in the past, the expertise was one the place it was solely a 6 to 9 month payback on capital. This can be a results of the disproportionately excessive $ per Terahash ($/TH) retail costs from Chinese language producers, relative to present hashrate economics. Securing {hardware} at a horny $/TH worth, is vital to producing a robust return on invested capital (ROIC). Whereas HIVE’s cope with Intel is rather more engaging in ROIC, which the Firm has studied compared to market gives from different Bitcoin ASIC miner suppliers.

HIVE is resolute in cautiously and strategically constructing our BTC manufacturing to generate the very best ROIC for our shareholders. Over the previous 12 months our manufacturing of BTC has grown considerably and we at the moment are at 1% of the worldwide community whereas our worthwhile ETH manufacturing has elevated over the previous 4 months. The present day by day income generated from coin manufacturing is roughly US$600.000 per day.

Because it pertains to quickly scaling, HIVE has endeavoured to first discover sources of renewable inexperienced power earlier than shopping for giant allocations of GPUs or ASIC miners in an effort to maximise our efficiencies and generate sturdy returns on invested capital. In our market intelligence, the Firm has seen vital provide disruptions for electrical tools wanted to make information facilities, corresponding to transformers and swap gear. Striving to scale giant manufacturing has run into many roadblocks on account of these provide line points. Our analysis from China with over 30 cities locked down has created an epic site visitors jam of empty ships ready to choose up manufactured merchandise in ports alongside the China coast. That is impacting their complete manufacturing sector, in addition to different industries which depend on these suppliers. We’re intently monitoring the commerce off between dangers of not receiving wanted electrical and {hardware} for constructing information facilities and Bitcoin mining machines. Our treasury of Bitcoin and Ethereum mined with inexperienced power is at the moment valued at roughly US$150 million.

Community Mining Problem

The Bitcoin community issue elevated as a lot as 5.5% and equally the Ethereum community issue elevated as a lot as 5% in the course of the month of April. These components influence 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 power and ESG technique.

HIVE is a growth-oriented expertise inventory within the emergent blockchain business. As an organization whose shares commerce on a significant 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 amenities in Canada, Sweden, and Iceland, the place we supply solely inexperienced power to mine on the cloud and HODL each Ethereum and Bitcoin. For the reason that starting of 2021, HIVE has held in safe storage the vast majority 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 corresponding to ETH and BTC. As a result of HIVE additionally owns exhausting belongings corresponding to information facilities and superior multi-use servers, we imagine our shares provide traders a horny option to acquire publicity to the cryptocurrency house.

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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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