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Hive Blockchain Boosts Capacity With 1,800 Antminer Order

The Antminer S19j Pro machines will be delivered in stages during the first half of next year.

Bitmain Antminer
Bitmain Antminer

Hive Blockchain, a publicly listed crypto mining company, said it ordered 1,800 mining machines from Bitmain Technologies for delivery next year.

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  • The Vancouver, Canada-based company did not provide a price for the purchase.
  • The Antminer S19j Pro machines will be delivered in stages during the first half, and will add a total hash power of 180 PH/s.
  • Earlier this month, the company ordered 4,000 miners from Canaan. Those machines, scheduled be delivered by the end of September, will add an aggregate hash power of 272 PH/s.
  • Hive Blockchain has data centers in its native Canada as well as in Sweden and Iceland and is traded on Nasdaq, the Toronto Stock Exchange and the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
Sheldon Reback

Sheldon Reback is CoinDesk editorial's Regional Head of Europe. Before joining the company, he spent 26 years as an editor at Bloomberg News, where he worked on beats as diverse as stock markets and the retail industry as well as covering the dot-com bubble of 2000-2002. He managed the Bloomberg Terminal's main news page and also worked on a global project to produce short, chart-based stories across the newsroom. He previously worked as a journalist for a number of technology magazines in Hong Kong. Sheldon has a degree in industrial chemistry and an MBA. He owns ether and bitcoin below CoinDesk's notifiable limit.

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