Bitcoin Miner Riot Blockchain Invests $780 Million to Expand Operations
Bitcoin mining firm Riot Blockchain announced its milestone purchase of $138.5 million in mining equipment this Wednesday. In a statement, the company announced that it will be purchasing 42,000 units of Bitmain’s Antminer S19J for $3,300 per unit. The standard hash rate of the model is 90 TH/s — meaning that Riot would be paying approximately $36 per TH/s of computing power. The global chip shortage and rising demand for crypto mining have led mining […]
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The $650 million deal sees Riot Blockchain acquiring a major data center owned by Northern Data AG, one of its competitors. Riot Blockchain is continuing its Bitcoin (BTC) mining expansion efforts. Reports suggest that the U.S.-based miner is set to purchase Whinstone US Inc, currently owned by Northern Data.The planned purchase was announced via a press release by Riot Blockchain on Thursday, with the U.S. Bitcoin miner paying $80 million in cash. The remainder will come from the sale of about 12% of its stock to Northern DAG.Whinstone reportedly operates the single largest Bitcoin mining....
Leading Bitcoin mining company Riot Blockchain announced its plans to expand its operations, via a press release. The expansion will allow the public company to increase its mining and hosting capabilities in different stages in the Navarro Country, Texas, the United States. Related Reading | Bitcoin Trading Volume Continues To Remain At Unusually Low Values The […]
Despite the sizable dilution, the RIOT stock price has not moved much at the time of publication. In a document filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Thursday, Bitcoin (BTC) mining company Riot Blockchain announced that it would be selling up to $500 million worth of common stock to finance general corporate expenses, such as working capital, repayment of corporate obligations, capital expenditures and acquisitions, and investing in existing and future projects. After the offering, the company would have more than 139 million units of common stock....
Riot Blockchain has published its 2020 financials and revealed it has increased its hashrate by 460%. According to its latest annual financial report, leading U.S.-based mining firm Riot Blockchain increased its hashing capacity by 460% and more than doubled the amount of Bitcoin held on its balance sheet in 2020.Riot saw a 78% growth in total mining revenues from $6.7 million to $12 million, owing to the increase in operational hash rate from 101 pentahashes per second, or PH/s, as of December 2019 to 566 PH/s as of December 31.While the company said it achieved profitability in the....
In April, Bitcoin mining company Riot Blockchain announced its ambitious plans to expand their operations and light up over 200,000 homes in Corsicana, Texas. Riot Blockchain is one of the biggest mining operators backed by a 400 MW facility that can be found in Rockdale, Texas. The company recently revealed that they’re now expanding to […]