Bitfarms Ltd. (NASDAQ: BITF // TSX: BITF), a global vertically
integrated Bitcoin mining company, reached 5 EH/s of production on
April 27, 2023.
As disclosed on April 24, 2023, in Argentina,
2,100 new miners were energized and the underclocking of existing
miners was discontinued as scheduled, directly contributing an
additional 250 PH/s of total production.
Geoff Morphy, CEO of Bitfarms, said, “Bitfarms
reached a new all time high of 5.0 EH/s by expanding production at
our Rio Cuarto farm in Argentina to 18 MW. This exciting moment
reflects our team’s hard work over the last two years resulting in
our largest, most advanced and lowest cost facility. With our new
miner purchases and further expansion opportunities, we expect our
farm in Argentina to be a significant growth driver in the coming
months as we build toward our year-end goal of 6.0 EH/s.”
Jeff Lucas, CFO of Bitfarms, said, “With
expected energy costs below $0.03 per KWh and highly efficient new
Bitcoin miners, the farm in Argentina is a key component of our
strategy to control costs and maintain our best-in-class average
cost of bitcoin mined while increasing top line revenue. This
expansion exemplifies our commitment to prudent and responsible
growth with a disciplined approach focused on driving competitive
returns on investment for our shareholders.”
About Bitfarms Ltd.
Founded in 2017, Bitfarms runs vertically
integrated mining operations with in-house management and
company-owned electrical engineering and services,
design-build-construct infrastructure capabilities, and multiple
onsite technical repair centers. The Company’s proprietary data
analytics software system delivers best-in-class operational
control, performance and uptime.
Bitfarms has 10 mining facilities which are
located in four countries: Canada, the United States, Paraguay, and
Argentina. Powered by predominantly environmentally friendly
hydro-electric and long-term power contracts, Bitfarms is committed
to using renewable, locally based, and often underutilized energy
infrastructure.
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Glossary of Terms
- BTC BTC/day = Bitcoin or Bitcoin per day
- EH or EH/s = Exahash or exahash per second
- MW or MWh = Megawatts or megawatt hour
- PH or PH/s = Petahash or petahash per second
- TH or TH/s = Terahash or terahash per second
- w/TH = Watts per Terahash
- KWh = Kilowatt per hour
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Trading in the securities of the Company should
be considered highly speculative. No stock exchange, securities
commission or other regulatory authority has approved or
disapproved the information contained herein. Neither the Toronto
Stock Exchange, Nasdaq, or any other securities exchange or
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accuracy of this release.
Forward-Looking Statements
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“forward-looking information” and “forward-looking statements”
(collectively, “forward-looking information”) that are based on
expectations, estimates and projections as at the date of this news
release and are covered by safe harbors under Canadian and United
States securities laws. The statements and information in this
release regarding future hashrate growth, expected energy costs and
other future plans and objectives of the Company are
forward-looking information. Other forward-looking information
includes, but is not limited to, information concerning: the
intentions, plans and future actions of the Company, as well as
Bitfarms’ ability to successfully mine digital currency, revenue
increasing as currently anticipated, the ability to profitably
liquidate current and future digital currency inventory, volatility
of network difficulty and digital currency prices and the potential
resulting significant negative impact on the Company’s operations,
the construction and operation of expanded blockchain
infrastructure as currently planned, and the regulatory environment
for cryptocurrency in the applicable jurisdictions.
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respect to predictions, expectations, beliefs, plans, projections,
objectives, assumptions, future events or performance (often but
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“is expected”, “anticipates” or “does not anticipate”, “plans”,
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certain actions, events or results “may” or “could”, “should”,
“would”, “might” or “will” be taken to occur or be achieved) are
not statements of historical fact and may be forward-looking
information and are intended to identify forward-looking
information.
This forward-looking information is based on
assumptions and estimates of management of the Company at the time
they were made, and involves known and unknown risks, uncertainties
and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance,
or achievements of the Company to be materially different from any
future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by
such forward-looking information. Such factors include, among
others, risks relating to: the availability of financing
opportunities, risks associated with economic conditions,
dependence on management and conflicts of interest, the ability to
service debt obligations and maintain flexibility in respect of
debt covenants; economic dependence on regulated terms of service
and electricity rates; the speculative and competitive nature of
the technology sector; dependency on continued growth in blockchain
and cryptocurrency usage; lawsuits and other legal proceedings and
challenges; conflict of interests with directors and management;
government regulations and approvals; the global economic climate;
dilution; the Company’s limited operating history; future capital
needs and uncertainty of additional financing, including the
Company’s ability to utilize the Company’s at-the-market equity
offering program (the “ATM Program”) and the prices at which the
Company may sell Common Shares in the ATM Program, as well as
capital market conditions in general; risks relating to the
strategy of maintaining and increasing Bitcoin holdings and the
impact of depreciating Bitcoin prices on working capital; the
competitive nature of the industry; currency exchange risks; the
need for the Company to manage its planned growth and expansion;
the effects of product development and need for continued
technology change; the ability to maintain reliable and economical
sources of power to run its cryptocurrency mining assets; the
impact of energy curtailment or regulatory changes in the energy
regimes in the jurisdictions in which the Company operates;
protection of proprietary rights; the effect of government
regulation and compliance on the Company and the industry; network
security risks; the ability of the Company to maintain properly
working systems; reliance on key personnel; global economic and
financial market deterioration impeding access to capital or
increasing the cost of capital; share dilution resulting from the
ATM Program and from other equity issuances; and volatile
securities markets impacting security pricing unrelated to
operating performance. In addition, particular factors that could
impact future results of the business of Bitfarms include, but are
not limited to: the construction and operation of facilities may
not occur as currently planned, or at all; expansion may not
materialize as currently anticipated, or at all; the digital
currency market; the ability to successfully mine digital currency;
revenue may not increase as currently anticipated, or at all; it
may not be possible to profitably liquidate the current digital
currency inventory, or at all; a decline in digital currency prices
may have a significant negative impact on operations; an increase
in network difficulty may have a significant negative impact on
operations; the volatility of digital currency prices; the
anticipated growth and sustainability of hydroelectricity for the
purposes of cryptocurrency mining in the applicable jurisdictions;
the inability to maintain reliable and economical sources of power
for the Company to operate cryptocurrency mining assets; the risks
of an increase in the Company’s electricity costs, cost of natural
gas, changes in currency exchange rates, energy curtailment or
regulatory changes in the energy regimes in the jurisdictions in
which the Company operates and the adverse impact on the Company’s
profitability; the ability to complete current and future
financings, any regulations or laws that will prevent Bitfarms from
operating its business; historical prices of digital currencies and
the ability to mine digital currencies that will be consistent with
historical prices; an inability to predict and counteract the
effects of COVID-19 on the business of the Company, including but
not limited to the effects of COVID-19 on the price of digital
currencies, capital market conditions, restriction on labour and
international travel and supply chains; and, the adoption or
expansion of any regulation or law that will prevent Bitfarms from
operating its business, or make it more costly to do so. For
further information concerning these and other risks and
uncertainties, refer to the Company’s filings on www.SEDAR.com
(which are also available on the website of the U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission at www.sec.gov), including the annual
information form for the year-ended December 31, 2022, filed on
March 21, 2023. The Company has also assumed that no significant
events occur outside of Bitfarms’ normal course of business.
Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors
that could cause actual results to differ materially from those
expressed in forward-looking statements, there may be other factors
that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended.
There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be
accurate as actual results and future events could differ
materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly,
readers should not place undue reliance on any forward-looking
information. The Company undertakes no obligation to revise or
update any forward-looking information other than as required by
law.
Contacts:
LHA Investor RelationsDavid Barnard+1
415-433-3777Investors@bitfarms.com
Actual Agency Lisa Helfer+1
646-373-9946mediarelations@bitfarms.com
Québec Media: TactLouis-Martin Leclerc+1
418-693-2425lmleclerc@tactconseil.ca
Argentina Media: Agora Public
Affairs Wendy Pasten+54 011 6110
6114wendy.pasten@agorapublicaffairs.com
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