Canadian crypto miner Hut 8 (HUT) has inked an statement to acquisition each 960 Whatsminer M31S+ rigs from hosting lawsuit TAAL.
The acquisition of the machines volition summation Hut 8’s full hashrate by 81 petahash per 2nd (PH/s) to 2.62 exahash per 2nd (EH/s), said the institution in a property release.
The woody is expected to adjacent connected May 1, and volition marque Hut 8 an proprietor of the mining rigs, alternatively than having to wage rent for their usage to TAAL.
“The incremental capableness volition present an contiguous hashrate payment arsenic ASIC miners are already on-site, installed and hashing," said Hut 8’s CEO Jaime Leverton. The institution connected April 5 said it was mining an mean of 11.1 bitcoins per time successful March, and held 6,460 bitcoins connected its equilibrium sheet.
Mining adjacent Argo Blockchain successful March made a akin determination to go 100% self-mining with a woody for a swap of mining rigs with its hosting client, Core Scientific.
Hut 8 is up astir 3% connected Tuesday morning, inline with its mining peers arsenic bitcoin (BTC) gains much than 5% to $41,660.
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