Fortress Technologies Inc. (TSX-V: FORT) (the "Company" or
“Fortress”) provides an update on operations and business
development in its strategic venture with Great American Mining LLC
(“GAM” or “Great American Mining”). GAM specializes in developing
and operating environmentally sustainable Bitcoin mining containers
which convert vented/flared natural gas into electricity, which
reduces greenhouse gas emissions.
The Fortress and GAM Bitcoin mining operating
hashrate is now 52 PH/s for the first 4 containers in the field,
which will collectively produce approximately 13.7 Bitcoin per
month (based on current difficulty levels).
As previously announced, Fortress recently
acquired an additional 540 Micro BT M31SE ASIC miners, to outfit 3
additional containers with GAM. These 3 containers have been
successfully commissioned over the weekend at the gas fields in
North Dakota, with all flared gas conversion and electrical systems
implemented. Fortress is pleased to announce these 3 new containers
with 540 MicroBT M31SE miners are all hashing and generating
approximately 41 PH/s of Bitcoin mining capacity. These containers
are now reducing emissions of methane through the conversion of
flared gas into electrical energy - and will produce approximately
10.6 Bitcoin per month at current difficulty levels. With the
11.7 PH/s from the first container which has been operating in
Oklahoma, the total is approximately 52 PH/s of current Bitcoin
mining capacity from the first four FORT/GAM containers.
Additionally, the Company recently announced it
has purchased 1,440 MicroBT M31S ASIC miners, which will fill the
remaining 8 containers with Great American Mining and thus complete
the first Statement of Work of 12 containers described in the
Company’s June 25, 2021 press release. These 1,440 M31S miners in 8
containers will generate an additional 106 PH/s, and are expected
to arrive in mid/late August 2021, and to be operational in the
flared gas fields and hashing in September 2021.
Upon the deployment of all 12 containers and
ASICs, the Company expects to have 158 PH/s of Bitcoin mining
capacity from the Fortress/GAM containers.
In addition to this, the Company has
approximately 20 PH/s from its existing data center operations,
which is generating approximately 5 BTC per month.
This would total 178 PH/s of Bitcoin mining
capacity, and is consistent with the Company’s previous projections
in April 2021 to achieve approximately 180 PH/s upon completion of
this initial stage of the strategic venture with Great American
Mining.
Furthermore, the Company is in a strong
financial position with approximately $3.0M CAD in cash, in
addition to 148.3 Bitcoin in its treasury, for total treasury of
approximately $9.8M CAD with Bitcoin at $38,000 USD. The Company is
pleased to state that it is currently cash flow positive from
existing operations (based on the IFRS revenue and monthly cash
operating expenses).
About Fortress Technologies
Fortress Technologies Inc. (TSX-V: FORT) is a
well-capitalized company focused on developing projects where
access to growth capital is highly valued, which can also advance
ESG and environmentally conscious business initiatives.
For further information, please contact:
Aydin KilicChief Executive Officer604 477
9997ir@fortressblockchain.io
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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 TSX
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responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
Forward-Looking Statements
This news release contains certain
“forward-looking information” within the meaning of applicable
Canadian securities laws that are based on expectations, estimates
and projections as at the date of this news release. The
information in this release about future plans and objectives of
the Company, are forward-looking information. Other forward-looking
information includes but is not limited to information concerning:
the establishment and prospects for the Bitcoin mining venture with
Great American Mining (“GAM”); the intentions, plans and future
actions of the Company, as well as the Company’s 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 resulting significant negative
impact on the Company’s operations; the construction and operation
of expanded blockchain infrastructure as currently planned; and the
regulatory environment of cryptocurrency in applicable
jurisdictions.
Any statements that involve discussions with
respect to predictions, expectations, beliefs, plans, projections,
objectives, assumptions, future events or performance (often but
not always using phrases such as “expects”, or “does not expect”,
“is expected”, “anticipates” or “does not anticipate”, “plans”,
“budget”, “scheduled”, “forecasts”, “estimates”, “believes” or
“intends” or variations of such words and phrases or stating that
certain actions, events or results “may” or “could”, “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
reasonable assumptions and estimates of management of the Company
at the time it was 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: there is no
assurance that the Company’s Bitcoin mining venture with GAM will
operate as expected on a commercial basis or at all; there is no
assurance that the Company will find other profitable undertakings
or that it can successfully conclude a purchase of such
undertakings at all or on terms which are commercially acceptable;
the status and impact of new electrical power rates and the status
of deliberations by the Grant County Public Utility District; risks
relating to the global economic climate; 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; 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; and, volatile
securities markets impacting security pricing unrelated to
operating performance. In addition, particular factors which
could impact future results of the business of the Company include
but are not limited to: the inability to operate the Bitcoin mining
venture with GAM on a profitable basis or at all and thereby
impairing the investment in the venture; failure to identify
beneficial business opportunities, failure to convert the potential
in the pursued business opportunities to tangible benefits to the
Company or its shareholders; the impact of new electrical power
rates which could impair profitability and operating performance;
deliberations by the Grant County Public Utility District which
could limit the ability of the Company to carry on business on a
profitable basis or at all; the construction and operation of
blockchain infrastructure may not occur as currently planned, 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; the volatility of digital currency prices;
the anticipated growth and sustainability of hydroelectricity for
the purposes of cryptocurrency mining in the Grant County of the
State of Washington; the ability to complete current and future
financings; any regulations or laws that will prevent the Company
from operating its business. In addition, particular factors which
could impact future results of the business of the Company include
but are not limited to: the ability to establish the Bitcoin mining
venture with GAM on the agreed schedule in accordance with the
contract terms and the potential for further improvements to
profitability and efficiency across mining operations; the
construction and operation of blockchain infrastructure 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 ability
to complete current and future financings; any regulations or laws
that will prevent the Company 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; there will be no regulation or law that will
prevent the Company from operating its business; and those risks
set out in the Company’s public documents filed on SEDAR. The
Company has also assumed that no significant events occur outside
of the Company’s normal course of business. Although the Company
has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual
results to differ materially, 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 forward-looking information. The Company
undertakes no obligation to revise or update any forward-looking
information other than as required by law.
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