Bitfarms Ltd. (NASDAQ: BITF // TSX: BITF), a global Bitcoin
self-mining company, provided a Bitcoin (BTC) production and mining
operations update for April 2022.
“In early April, we surpassed our 3 exahash per
second goal (EH/s) with the start of production at our Leger farm,
our ninth operating facility. This momentum continued throughout
the month, with new miner installations driving our hashrate to
over 3.3 EH/s at month-end, up 22% from 2.7 EH/s at the end of
March said Emiliano Grodzki, CEO of Bitfarms. “This incremental
capacity helped drive our average daily production in April to 13.5
BTC/day, up 15% from 11.7 BTC/day in March, and I’m proud to say we
exited April running at over 14 BTC/day.”
“We continue to be on track to complete the
build out of Leger in May, as well as the second phase of
construction at The Bunker in June. These activities are intended
to bring on incremental capacity of 32 MW and, in conjunction with
ongoing miner installations, are expected to add approximately 640
petahash per second (PH/s) to our online hashrate,” added
Grodzki.
Mining Production
- 3.3 EH/s
online, up from 2.7 EH/s as of March 31, 2022.
- 405 new BTC
mined during April 2022, up 75% from April 2021.
- 13.5 BTC
mined daily on average in April, equivalent to about US$520,000 per
day and approximately US$15.6 million for the month based on a BTC
price of US$38,500 on April 30, 2022.
- 403 BTC from
mining operations deposited into custody in April.
- 5,646 BTC in
custody on April 30, 2022, representing a total value of
approximately US$217 million based on a BTC price of
US$38,500.
Mining Operations
- Initiated
production at the Leger site in City of Sherbrooke, Québec,
increasing total farms in production to nine and increasing
operational capacity by 16 megawatts (MW) of its planned total of
30 MW of capacity.
- Approximately
5,900 new miners were installed, adding more than 590 PH/s to
Bitfarms’ online hashrate.
- Increased
total electrical capacity by 16 MW to 137 MW.
- Officially
launched the Company’s revamped proprietary miner management system
that has been in beta test for the last 9 months. The new
management software features improved controls, tracking, sensors,
alarms, visualizations, and performance metrics, giving the Company
the capability to manage and track the individual performance of
hundreds of thousands of miners across its globally decentralized
mining farms with a focus on maximizing uptime.
Bitfarms’ BTC 2022 Monthly
Production
Month |
BTC |
January |
301 |
February |
298 |
March |
363 |
April |
405 |
About Bitfarms Ltd.
Founded in 2017, Bitfarms is a global Bitcoin
self-mining company, running vertically integrated mining
operations with onsite technical repair, proprietary data analytics
and Company-owned electrical engineering and installation services
to deliver high operational performance and uptime.
Having demonstrated rapid growth and stellar
operations, Bitfarms became the first Bitcoin mining company to
complete its long form prospectus with the Ontario Securities
Commission and started trading on the TSX-V in July 2019. On
February 24, 2021, Bitfarms was honoured to be announced as a
Rising Star by the TSX-V. On June 21, 2021, Bitfarms started
trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market. On February 24, 2022, the
Company was further honoured by the TSX-V as Venture 50 Winner,
placing first in the Technology sector. On April 8, 2022, Bitfarms
up-listed from the TSX-V to the TSX.
Operationally, Bitfarms has a diversified
production platform with seven industrial scale facilities located
in Québec, one in Washington state, and one in Paraguay. Each
facility is over 99% powered with environmentally friendly hydro
power and secured with long-term power contracts. Bitfarms is
currently the only publicly traded pure-play mining company audited
by a Big Four accounting firm.
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States securities laws. The information in this release regarding
expectations regarding the build out of Leger and construction at
The Bunker, the benefits of acquiring and holding Bitcoin, its
future rate of Bitcoin production, its future accumulation of
Bitcoin, its expansion plans in general, and about 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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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 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 offering (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, 2021, filed on
March 28, 2022. 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
Investor Relations:
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