Bitfarms Ltd. (NASDAQ/TSX: BITF), a global leader in vertically
integrated Bitcoin data center operations, today announced its
latest monthly production report. All financial references are in
U.S. dollars.
Bitfarms achieved an operating hashrate of 12.8
EH/s in November with initial deployment of miners to Stronghold
Digital Mining’s sites in Pennsylvania under the hosting agreements
announced in September and October 2024. With these two hosting
agreements, supporting a total of approximately 4 EH/s, nearly 75%
of Bitfarms’ hashrate is expected to come from North American data
centers by the first half of 2025, re-affirming the Company’s
commitment to grow in the U.S.
In November, Bitfarms also upgraded nearly
19,000 T21 miners to S21 Pro miners with delivery anticipated in
December and January. These newer, more efficient miners will
support improved efficiency of 19 w/TH, a nearly 10% improvement
from current efficiency, in the first half of 2025.
CEO Ben Gagnon stated, “By redirecting our
miners to be deployed in the United States, we have best matched
our miners with the underlying electricity economics across our
large portfolio of flexible MWs. With demand for immediate capacity
for both HPC/AI and BTC mining surging and based on discussions
with strategic partners, I am confident that our energy portfolio
of over 950 MW in 2025 gives us unparalleled flexibility to take
advantage of strategic opportunities in both HPC/AI and BTC
mining.”
In addition, Bitfarms conducted its Special
Meeting of shareholders on November 20, resulting in shareholder
approval of the expansion of the Board of Directors from five to
six members and the appointment of Andrew J. Chang as an
Independent Director. The Board is now comprised of six members,
five of whom are independent.
Lastly, Bitfarms announces that Benoit Gobeil,
Chief Infrastructure Officer, resigned from the Company effective
at the end of November. During his tenure, Mr. Gobeil played a key
role in scaling Bitfarms data center facilities across North and
Latin America.
CEO Ben Gagnon concluded, “Benoit has been with
Bitfarms since 2018 and has been an important member of our
leadership team. Over the years, he built an infrastructure team
around him that we believe is best-in-class in designing,
constructing, and maintaining high- performing Bitcoin data
centers. With this team in place, I am confident of a smooth
transition as we expedite the recruitment process for a
replacement. As we look to fill this role, we believe this is an
opportunity to further strengthen our team and bring in someone
with HPC/AI and U.S.-based data center construction management
experience. The entire Bitfarms team is grateful for Benoit’s
dedication and contributions, and we wish him success with his
future endeavors.”
Mining ReviewNovember mining
operations generated 204 BTC compared to 236 BTC in October,
reflecting a 1% increase in average operating EH and a 7% increase
in Bitcoin difficulty.
Key Performance Indicators |
November2024 |
October2024 |
November2023 |
Total BTC earned |
204 |
236 |
392 |
Month End Operating EH/s |
12.8 |
11.5 |
6.4 |
BTC/Avg. EH/s |
19 |
22 |
66 |
Average Operating EH/s |
10.7 |
10.6 |
5.9 |
Operating Capacity (MW) |
324 |
310 |
240 |
Hydropower (MW) |
256 |
256 |
186 |
Watts/Terahash Efficiency (w/TH) |
21 |
21 |
35 |
BTC Sold |
171 |
194 |
350 |
November 2024 Select Operating
Highlights
- 12.8 EH/s operational at November 30, 2024, up 100% Y/Y and up
11% M/M.
- 10.7 EH/s average operational, up 81% Y/Y and up 1% M/M.
- 19 BTC/average EH/s, 14% lower M/M and 71% lower Y/Y.
- 204 BTC earned, 14% lower M/M and 48% lower Y/Y.
- 6.8 BTC earned daily on average, equal to ~$660,000 per day
based on a BTC price of $97,000 at November 30, 2024.
Bitfarms’ BTC Monthly
Production
Month |
BTC Earned 2024 |
BTC Earned 2023 |
January |
357 |
486 |
February |
300 |
387 |
March |
286 |
424 |
April |
269 |
379 |
May |
156 |
459 |
June |
189 |
385 |
July |
253 |
378 |
August |
233 |
383 |
September |
217 |
411 |
October |
236 |
398 |
November |
204 |
392 |
YTD Totals |
2,700 |
4,482 |
November 2024 Financial Update
- Sold 171 of the 204 BTC earned as
part of the Company’s regular treasury management practice for
total proceeds of $14.6 million.
- Added 33 BTC to Treasury from
mining operations and transferred 351 Bitcoin to Bitmain in
accordance with the miner upgrade agreement announced on November
12. Under the terms of the agreement, Bitmain will upgrade 18,853
Bitmain T21 miners to S21 Pro miners for an incremental cost of
$33.2 million paid in Bitcoin with the option for the Company to
redeem the Bitcoin for cash in four quarterly payments at a fixed
Bitcoin price of ~$94,600, the price of Bitcoin at the time the
Bitcoin was originally tendered. Reflecting the transfer of Bitcoin
to Bitmain, Bitfarms Treasury at November month-end was 870
Bitcoin, down from 1,188 last month and representing $84.4 million
based on the Bitcoin price of $97,000 at November 30, 2024.
- Synthetic HODL™ of 584 long-dated
BTC call options at November 30, 2024, down from 802 at the end of
the prior month.
Upcoming Conferences and
Events
- December 4: B. Riley Crypto &
Energy Infrastructure Conference (NYC)
- December 12: Northland Growth
Conference (Virtual)
- January 14-15, 2025: Needham Growth
Conference (NYC)
About Bitfarms Ltd.
Founded in 2017, Bitfarms is a global vertically
integrated Bitcoin data center company that contributes its
computational power to one or more mining pools from which it
receives payment in Bitcoin. Bitfarms develops, owns, and operates
vertically integrated mining facilities with in-house management
and company-owned electrical engineering, installation service, and
multiple onsite technical repair centers. The Company’s proprietary
data analytics system delivers best-in-class operational
performance and uptime.
Bitfarms currently has 12 operating Bitcoin data
centers and two under development, as well as hosting agreements
with two data centers, in four countries: Canada, the United
States, Paraguay, and Argentina. Powered predominantly by
environmentally friendly hydro-electric and long-term power
contracts, Bitfarms is committed to using sustainable and often
underutilized energy infrastructure.
To learn more about Bitfarms’ events,
developments, and online communities:
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Glossary of Terms
- Y/Y or M/M= year over year or month over month
- BTC or BTC/day = Bitcoin or Bitcoin per day
- EH or EH/s = Exahash or exahash per second
- MW or MWh = Megawatts or megawatt hour
- w/TH = Watts/Terahash efficiency (includes cost of powering
supplementary equipment)
- Synthetic HODL™ = the use of instruments that create BTC
equivalent exposure
Forward-Looking Statements
This news release contains certain
“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 the impact of the Stronghold hosting agreements,
projected growth, target hashrate, opportunities relating to the
Company’s geographical diversification and expansion, deployment of
miners as well as the timing therefor, closing of the Stronghold
acquisition on a timely basis and on the terms as announced, , the
ability to gain access to additional electrical power and grow
hashrate of the Stronghold business, performance of the plants and
equipment upgrades and the impact on operating capacity including
the target hashrate and multi-year expansion capacity, the
opportunities to leverage Bitfarms’ proven expertise to
successfully enhance energy efficiency and hashrate, and other
statements regarding future growth, plans and objectives of the
Company are forward-looking information.
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”, “prospects”,
“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.
This forward-looking information is based on
assumptions and estimates of management of Bitfarms 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 Bitfarms to be materially different from any
future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by
such forward-looking information. Such factors, risks and
uncertainties include, among others: receipt of the approval of the
shareholders of Stronghold and the Toronto Stock Exchange for the
Stronghold acquisition as well as other applicable regulatory
approvals; that the Stronghold acquisition may not close within the
timeframe anticipated or at all or may not close on the terms and
conditions currently anticipated by the parties for a number of
reasons including, without limitation, as a result of a failure to
satisfy the conditions to closing of the Stronghold acquisition;
the construction and operation of new facilities may not occur as
currently planned, or at all; expansion of existing facilities may
not materialize as currently anticipated, or at all; new miners may
not perform up to expectations; revenue may not increase as
currently anticipated, or at all; the ongoing ability to
successfully mine digital currency is not assured; failure of the
equipment upgrades to be installed and operated as planned; the
availability of additional power may not occur as currently
planned, or at all; expansion may not materialize as currently
anticipated, or at all; the power purchase agreements and economics
thereof may not be as advantageous as expected; potential
environmental cost and regulatory penalties due to the operation of
the Stronghold plants which entail environmental risk and certain
additional risk factors particular to the business of Stronghold
including, land reclamation requirements may be burdensome and
expensive, changes in tax credits related to coal refuse power
generation could have a material adverse effect on the business,
financial condition, results of operations and future development
efforts, competition in power markets may have a material adverse
effect on the results of operations, cash flows and the market
value of the assets, the business is subject to substantial energy
regulation and may be adversely affected by legislative or
regulatory changes, as well as liability under, or any future
inability to comply with, existing or future energy regulations or
requirements, the operations are subject to a number of risks
arising out of the threat of climate change, and environmental
laws, energy transitions policies and initiatives and regulations
relating to emissions and coal residue management, which could
result in increased operating and capital costs and reduce the
extent of business activities, operation of power generation
facilities involves significant risks and hazards customary to the
power industry that could have a material adverse effect on our
revenues and results of operations, and there may not have adequate
insurance to cover these risks and hazards, employees, contractors,
customers and the general public may be exposed to a risk of injury
due to the nature of the operations, limited experience with carbon
capture programs and initiatives and dependence on third-parties,
including consultants, contractors and suppliers to develop and
advance carbon capture programs and initiatives, and failure to
properly manage these relationships, or the failure of these
consultants, contractors and suppliers to perform as expected,
could have a material adverse effect on the business, prospects or
operations; the digital currency market; the ability to
successfully mine digital currency; 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 to
operate cryptocurrency mining assets; the risks of an increase in
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 Bitfarms and
Stronghold operate and the potential adverse impact on
profitability; future capital needs and the ability to complete
current and future financings, including Bitfarms’ ability to
utilize an at-the-market offering program ( “ATM Program”) and the
prices at which securities may be sold in such ATM Program, as well
as capital market conditions in general; share dilution resulting
from an ATM Program and from other equity issuances; volatile
securities markets impacting security pricing unrelated to
operating performance; the risk that a material weakness in
internal control over financial reporting could result in a
misstatement of financial position that may lead to a material
misstatement of the annual or interim consolidated financial
statements if not prevented or detected on a timely basis;
historical prices of digital currencies and the ability to mine
digital currencies that will be consistent with historical prices;
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 Bitfarms’ filings
on www.sedarplus.ca (which are also available on the
website of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC")
at www.sec.gov), including the MD&A for the year-ended
December 31, 2023, filed on March 7, 2024 and the MD&A for the
three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 filed on November
13, 2024, and its registration statement on Form F-4 (File No.
333-282657) filed by Bitfarms with the SEC (the “registration
statement”), which includes a proxy statement of Stronghold that
also constitutes a prospectus of Bitfarms (the “proxy
statement/prospectus”). Although Bitfarms 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, including factors that are
currently unknown to or deemed immaterial by Bitfarms. 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.
Bitfarms does not undertake any obligation to revise or update any
forward-looking information other than as required by law. 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 regulatory authority accepts
responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
Investor Relations
Contacts:
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