2 years ago
Sphere 3D (ANY), the information absorption steadfast that is merging with bitcoin miner Gryphon Digital Mining successful a special intent acquisition company (SPAC) transaction, has agreed to acquisition 60,000 of NuMiner Technologies' high-end NM440 machines for $1.7 billion.
Sphere 3D volition money the woody with astir $400 cardinal of superior stock, $29 cardinal successful cash, up to $1.1 cardinal successful vendor acquisition financing and up to $185 cardinal successful further milestone payments, according to a statement.
Shares of Sphere 3D were rising 25% successful post-market trading connected Thursday aft the announcement of the deal.
NuMiner said that its NM440 mining computers person 440 terahash per 2nd (TH/s) of mining powerfulness and powerfulness ratio of 20.2 joules per terahash (J/TH), according to a separate statement. That makes the mining rigs the astir almighty and businesslike mining machines connected the market. In comparison, Bitmain’s astir caller offering, the Antminer S19 Pro+ Hyd., has a hashrate of 198 TH/s and ratio of 27.5 (J/TH).
“The NM440 boasts a 440 TH/s processing hash rate, much than 8x the mean bitcoin miner, with ~75% little vigor usage, arsenic substantiated by starring third-party investigating institution TÜV Nord’s certified laboratory BTL,” said Anthony Melman, president of NuMiner’s planetary committee of directors. Melman was besides appointed to Sphere 3D’s board, effectual March.
Sphere 3D is paying astir $28,000 for each machine. The miners are being produced successful coordination with exertion suppliers, including Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, Foxconn and Xilinx, according to NuMiner’s statement. Deliveries volition commencement successful the 2nd quarter.
Sphere 3D said that the woody puts it connected gait to beryllium 1 of the “largest c neutral bitcoin miners,” arsenic contracted deliveries of each the miners would correspond a full hashrate of 32.4 exahash per 2nd (EH/s) if afloat deployed today. The Bitcoin network’s full hashrate was astir 202 EH/s arsenic of Wednesday, according to information analytics steadfast Glassnode.
By comparison, Marathon Digital, 1 of the world's largest publically traded miners, said connected Jan. 3 that its computing hashrate was 3.5 EH/s and that it planned to summation that fig to 23.3 EH/s by aboriginal 2023.
UPDATE (Feb. 3, 23:28 UTC): Added details of Sphere's banal rise.
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