TORONTO & BROSSARD, Québec–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Bitfarms Ltd. (“Bitfarms”, or the “Company”) (TSXV: BITF) is pleased to announce the arrival and installation 2,000 new generation miners over the weekend. The new miners were installed at Bitfarms’ renovated and upgraded datacentre located in Farnham, Quebec. The order and lease financing announcement regarding the WhatsMiner M31S mining rigs was previously announced on September 21, 2020. The newly installed miners have added approximately 144 petahash per second (“PH”) to the Company’s operations.
Summary of Computing Power Expansion Plan in 2020
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Announced: |
Installed: |
Equipment: |
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June, 2020 |
June 2020 |
Purchased: 1,847 MicroBT’s WhatsMiner M20S adding 133 PH of computing power |
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August, 2020 |
September 2020 |
Leased: 1,000 MicroBT’s WhatsMiner M31S+ adding 82 PH of computing power |
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October, 2020 |
November 2020 |
Leased: 2,000 MicroBT’s WhatsMiner M31S adding 144 PH of computing power |
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September, 2020 |
Estimated for late November |
To be Leased: 4,000 MicroBT’s WhatsMiner M31S+ adding 328 PH of computing power |
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September and October, 2020 |
Estimated for December 2020 |
To be Leased: 1,000 – 3,500 MicroBT’s WhatsMiner units. |
As first communicated in the Press Release dated September 21, 2020, Bitfarms is well on its way to exceeding 759 PH of new capacity during 2020. The 2,000 new miners installed this past weekend improve Bitfarms’ computing power-to-electricity efficiency ratio from 16.7 PH/MW to 17.8 PH/MW and bring our average cost per Bitcoin to approximately US$6,400 based on market conditions on the 8th of November 2020 with a Bitcoin price of approximately US$15,500.
Emiliano Grodzki, Interim Chief Executive Officer of Bitfarms added, “November has been an amazing month for Bitfarms. Bitcoin prices have been increasing quickly, the difficulty factor recently decreased, and the Company is busy installing thousands of new miners. Bitfarms is proud to be a fundamental contributor to the global Bitcoin infrastructure and to be part of the ongoing paradigm shift. We are very excited about the future.”
About Bitfarms Ltd.
The Company owns and operates computing centres that power the global decentralized financial economy. Bitfarms provides computing power to cryptocurrency networks for Bitcoin, earning fees from each network for securing and processing transactions. Powered by clean and competitively priced hydroelectricity, Bitfarms operates five computing centres in Québec, Canada. Bitfarms’ experienced management team includes industrial-scale data centre operators and capital markets professionals, focused on building infrastructure by developing and hosting one of the industry’s most efficient ecosystem growing around blockchain-based technologies.
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Contacts
For investor and media inquiries:
Geoff Morphy
+1.647.500.7440
gmorphy@bitfarms.com
