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Bitfarms Plans Massive Bitcoin Mining Expansion With Purchase of 48,000 MicroBT Devices
The company expects the miners to increase its hashing capacity to 8.0 exahashes from its present 1.0 EH once all are operational.
Listed Canadian bitcoin mining company Bitfarms (TSXV:BITF, OTC:BFARF) has entered an agreement to buy 48,000 new MicroBT mining machines as part of a major growth plan.
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- When all the mining machines are delivered and operational, they are expected to increase Bitfarms' hashing capacity to 8.0 exahashes from its present 1.0, the company said in an an announcement Tuesday.
- Shipments are slated to begin in January 2022 with the final batch arriving in December the same year.
- "With this equipment purchase agreement, Bitfarms is positioned to remain in the top tier of publicly traded crypto mining companies in the world," said CEO Emiliano Grodzki.
- The miners will be installed at both the firm's existing facilities and new ones currently in development.
- A Bitfarms representative told CoinDesk the terms of the deal are confidential.
- The company announced Feb. 8 it's entering into a $31.3 million deal for a private placement of shares on Calgary-based TSX Venture Exchange.
See also: Blockstream Buys $25M Worth of Bitcoin Mining Machines From MicroBT
Jamie Crawley
Jamie has been part of CoinDesk's news team since February 2021, focusing on breaking news, Bitcoin tech and protocols and crypto VC. He holds BTC, ETH and DOGE.
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